Re: changing the fan cooler on my video card

attilathehun1 wrote:
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This is a question I want answered that has just started bothering me when I read the box, unopened with plastic still wrapped, on the VisionTek, Radeon HD 3870. I went to newegg.com and tried to get some reviews on it, but they aren't offering the card. Now I bought it from Best Buy and I had to go all the way to Mission Viejo to get it, well 2 of them, I bought the last 2. It was on sale from $249.99 to $129.99, $120 dollars off. Even if I went to newegg, I don't think I could get it that cheap. What do you think about installing this card in my new PC. Or do you think I should upgrade to a better more expensive card? Another thing about the card is the compatibility with Intel. I'm reading more AMD on the box then Intel Pentium 4. It is ATI Radeon Graphics though. Yeah and looking through the plastic, I can see the ATI label. Thanks, attilahthehun1


That is a pretty nice card, better than the 8400 you were talking
about getting. You can see here, the HD 3870 is 7x faster than
the 8400 GS.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/desktop-vga-charts/prey,575.html?p=1590%2C1616%2C1584

The HD3870 uses 81.1 watts of power when gaming. So your power supply
should be big enough for that kind of load. It gets some power
through the PCI Express slot (flows through the main power cable), while
the rest of the power is through the extra connector on the end of the
card. Between the two of them, it uses 12V @ 6.62 amps and a little 3.3V.
This probably isn't a big deal, but as part of your training, you have
to be aware of power consumption. If you put too much hardware on
a tiny power supply, it could shut off or die in a puff of smoke.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/gigabyte-radeonhd3870-3850_5.html

Your power supply also needs a power cable of the right type, to plug
into the connector on the card. You can see the black connector in the
upper right hand end of the card, here. That card has what looks
like a VF900 cooler, but you'll notice they used a copper heat
spreader, rather than the tiny taped-on RAM heat sinks :-)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129100

For your ECS GF6100-M754 with S754 3200+ processor, there are at least four
different models of 3200+ processor. Three have 89W power consumption, and the
fourth has 59W. The 59W one is shown here. Your processor draws power
from the 12V rail also, and the processor and video card are the
major users. You'd want to look at the label on the side of the
supply, and get a rough idea of how many amps are available on
the +12V rail(s), for the load you plan on putting in the box.

http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUDetail.aspx?id=127

If you install the motherboard drivers from the motherboard CD,
and the Catalyst drivers from the Visiontek CD, you should be
in good shape.

Paul
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