Question 1

Does this use 1 6pin connector or 2? and would a corsair 500w be able to handle 2 of these cards?

Accepted Answer

Hello Edward,
The Asus video card uses a single PCI-E 6 pin power connector.
I am not using dual cards in a crossfire manner and have it on a 650W power supply. I can't say if 500W would handle this. It depends on how many drives you have. If you have SATA RAID setup, dual DVD/BRay and crossfire, I suspect 500W is insufficient. Asus has a power supply calculator under MB support. I suspect other mfr's do also. Run your numbers is the best I can say, or just go ahead and overpower it now. Mine recommends 650W as minimum, and I plan on getting a bigger PS soon.

Question 2

work for a week and stop, what could be the possible cause?

Accepted Answer

Did you overclock it at all, that could be the cause, or it could be your power supply, does it have enough power? Could have been static electricity, or maybe just bad luck.

Question 3

Does this come with the cables to connect it to the monitor?

Accepted Answer

No unfortunately it does not. it comes with an adapter but I didn't bother with it as I have mine plugged into my 42" Plasma for gaming. If you choose to use hdmi then you can get a good cable for $10 bucks or less from any store. Don't get trapped in the gold plated 30+ dollar ones.

Question 4

Just want to check that...
A) Would this be considered an upgrade from nvidia geforce gtx 460?
B) That it's compatible with an ASUS motherboard model P6X58D-E with a PCI Express x16 port.

Accepted Answer

I am not able to answer "A" as I have not owned a nvidia gpu for over 7 years now.

For "B", I did a quick check on the MB at ASUS and it seems that it would work fine.

At tomshardware, I seen that the intel cpu seems to make a big difference on the gpu some.  Since I am not suppose to post links, just do a search for "ivy-bridge-wolfdale-yorkfield-comparison".

I have ran the ASUS 7850's in single and in crossfire and for most of my steam games, one was good enough.  I am typing this on my game machine with dual 7950's in crossfire and between the two setups, I would be very happy playing the games with either.  Both of them out perform my xbox 360 or PS3 with the same games.

For comparing the gtx 460 to the 7850, check and see what most of your games were designed for and go with that GPU.  I went to AMD GPU's because most of the games that I was playing at the time were built to support AMD.  But, my current favorite for the past year has been Borderlands2, which is built for nvidia cards, but plays great with my AMD's.

Choose whatever you can afford, just dont buy the lowest in the GPU series (ie., bought 7850 and 7950, did not buy the 7750 as it is the basic card).  A friend of mine has dual 7750's (they support only software crossfire and not the crossfire cable).  A single XFX 7850 upgrade to his machine made a world of difference with all of his games.  I now have those two 7750's mining bitcoins which my 7850's and 7950's do most of their time.

Question 5

Is this card windows 8 compatible?

Accepted Answer

yes

Question 6

How many monitors does this support?  I'm making a triple monitor setup in my office and would need a card that supports 3 monitors.

Accepted Answer

I hope this helps, my answer is subject to my limited knowledge of computer programming. For starters, it will definetly support 2 monitors at once. That's how mine is set up. Now Besides the dvi ports there is an HDMI port. Regularly i pull out a DVI and put in an HDMI to have a bigger screen from time to time. Still only 2 monitors. Having said that , I could swear when I first fired this thing up, I had the 2 regular monitors and an HDMI monitor at once making it 3. So I'm thinking maybe it will do 3 at once and I just don't know how to make it happen. Also if I did have 3 going one would have been cloned of the 1st 2, not a 3 screen  view of one back ground. Again I hope this helps and if nothing else don't give up on the 3 screen possibility.

Question 7

card length?

Accepted Answer

From the long part of the "L" bracket that the video plugs are on, to the end of the card, is 11".  You need lots of space.  I suggest using of fulltower case designed for gamers (more space for airflow and gpu cards).

Question 8

Does anyone know if this will run in Dual graphics with an AMD A8 processor (Richland)?

Accepted Answer

No, sorry. It can only run dual ("Crossfire") with another discrete 7850, 7870, or 7870 Ghz card.

That Richland A8 APU can support Hybrid Crossfire with only an AMD HD 6670 or AMD HD 7750. (source: product info from googling).

However, the actual performance gains are very minimal from a hybrid crossfire setup like that -- it would be much more worth it to step up to a more powerful discrete card (like this 7850) and just use the APU for processing, not graphics.

Question 9

Will this card work on my ASUS motherboard P6T SE? my setup is on this link http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883229185

Accepted Answer

Yes the Card will work in your system  and I my opinion it is an outstanding card. I get and average FPS of 40 on Battlefield 4 Ultra settings with the beta drivers installed. Also the card OC like a beast running stable at 1050 Mhz. Remember I am running Beta drivers and it is Over clocked . I hope this helps in your decision.

Question 10

is it backward compatible with 2.0 ?

Accepted Answer

Yes. I am using it with an ASUS sabertooth 990FX R2 MoBo (AMD based) which is only PCIe 2.0 and it works fine. Have had it a few months and have found it cool and quiet. I bought it thinking it a good compromise between performance, cost and reliability. It is very long with the second fan, just fit.

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