Who has X1950pro?

[Frick]

the 274 limit has been corrected about 6 BIOS releases ago!

That's what I'm saying! I haven't updated in a while.. Now I have like 1.50 or so and that "issue" was corrected in .. 1.8, I think..

 

[mmx]

Its only the 3dmark score it doesnt mean to mutch, it has only 12TMU so in old games/benches it will score low than 16ROP cards, but it has 36 Shader Procesor so in future games more shader intensive it will score better.

 

[ryboto]

That is not enough for your card.
30 amps on 12v rail is recommended. Make that 25 amps. They screw you for the other 5.

I can power my system with a 330W Seasonic S-12. I've got 2 pci cards, x1950pro, opteron 170@ 2.8, 1.4v, 2 hard drives, 5 usb devices always plugged in. I wish I had the money to buy my own, I only tested it on my system to make sure it was working properly, because our lab computer was having issues. But, I'd be surprised if at full load my pc consumed any more than 190W. The x950pro is a low power card, it was the reason I decided to get it over a gt or an xt.

 

[Frick]

I can power my system with a 330W Seasonic S-12. I've got 2 pci cards, x1950pro, opteron 170@ 2.8, 1.4v, 2 hard drives, 5 usb devices always plugged in. I wish I had the money to buy my own, I only tested it on my system to make sure it was working properly, because our lab computer was having issues. But, I'd be surprised if at full load my pc consumed any more than 190W. The x950pro is a low power card, it was the reason I decided to get it over a gt or an xt.

I never knew that. Really sweet.

But the Seasonic S-12 is a really nice PSU. At first, when I got the x1950pro, I had this JNC (in the store it was labeled as NoName ) 350W which was like 4 years old, and I think I burned it out during that week. It worked for basic gaming though, but it couldn't handle 3dMark. Also, it was this suspicious smell around the system..

 

[Tatty_Two]

Its only the 3dmark score it doesnt mean to mutch, it has only 12TMU so in old games/benches it will score low than 16ROP cards, but it has 36 Shader Procesor so in future games more shader intensive it will score better.

Thats is true but very much depends on the games architecture, if you take Oblivion for example, outdoors in the most demanding area's (grassland, forests etc) the shader power of ATi cards such as the 1900XT/XTX etc etc clearly dominate with their extra shaders and produce higher FPS at the highest detail than their NVidia rivals but indoors, at resolutions upyo 1680 x 1200 the 7900GTX and GX2 both provide higher frames at the same settings.

However, if you take Fear for example, it uses a different method of programming and has a different architecture therefore high end NVidia cards beat ATi cards in that game generally.

There are some slight descrepencies at either the highest or lowest detail in both games where one card may beat the other but as a rule of thumb, not all "newer" games will necessarily be more shader intensive and therefore not necessarily benefit ATi's approach, having said that I am not suggesting an ATi card would not still come out tops in some of the tests.

There are a number of recent ish games that definatly are more shader dependant as well as Oblivion but the same can be said for the opposite if you get my meaning, we live in a world now where Graphics card manufacturers "underwrite" game developers if they bias architecture towards their particular cards strengths so its a little unfair really.