It will be obvious pretty soon that we are working to amp up our graphic card reviews (considering they've been absolutely scarce up to now), and in the past week, I've gone through and benchmarked seven different cards. The time finally came for the last one, ASUS' EAH3870 X2. Oh but how foolish of me to forget that the AMD cards require an 8-Pin power connector - the only connector not found on the Corsair HX620. This is not Corsairs fault of course, as these connectors came out after the fact, but it sure didn't make things less convenient.
Because of my small living quarters, I have to test all hardware in a chassis, my chassis being the Antec P182... which already had the perfect setup for all my PSU cables. So why not just install the POS Antec Quatro 1000W to replace the Corsair? That would be a great idea, if I didn't run into blatant issues like explained in this thread.
So, my brilliant move was to hook up the Antec outside of the case to just get on with benchmarking the beast. As you can see, the result is enough to make anyone shrug. It's a lot better than installing the PSU only to uninstall it after testing, however. I added a cheap 120mm fan to help improve airflow, and temperatures haven't proved a problem for the card at all, so no problem there.
Oh and of course, since I think of everything, I forgot to plug in the water-cooling to the right PSU, so I ended up booting up only to have it shut itself back down. It's a great thing it's hard to kill CPUs nowadays.. it's still running fine ;-)
Because of my small living quarters, I have to test all hardware in a chassis, my chassis being the Antec P182... which already had the perfect setup for all my PSU cables. So why not just install the POS Antec Quatro 1000W to replace the Corsair? That would be a great idea, if I didn't run into blatant issues like explained in this thread.
So, my brilliant move was to hook up the Antec outside of the case to just get on with benchmarking the beast. As you can see, the result is enough to make anyone shrug. It's a lot better than installing the PSU only to uninstall it after testing, however. I added a cheap 120mm fan to help improve airflow, and temperatures haven't proved a problem for the card at all, so no problem there.
Oh and of course, since I think of everything, I forgot to plug in the water-cooling to the right PSU, so I ended up booting up only to have it shut itself back down. It's a great thing it's hard to kill CPUs nowadays.. it's still running fine ;-)
