Question 1

Does this have an HDMI plug?

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If you mean the same kind of female plugins on your television HDMI connects and male end cables, yes, it has two.   I believe that nearly all of the more recent cards have at least one.

Question 2

How many PCI connectors does it have? I'm using a 450 watts power supply that only has one. Will I need an adapter?

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This card has two 6-pin PCI-E connections. If you only have one 6-pin connection, you can use the included molex to PCI-E connector for the other connection.
Although, the recommended power supply is 500W, So you might want to look into a new power supply so you won't have to deal with potential bottlenecking. Hope this helps!

Question 3

What do you think, 2 of these in cross fire? Or a GeForce GTX 980 4GB 256-Bit? Only running one screen.

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Thanks for the replies. I have the crossfire setup now. thinking about going to a single 980 card. You think I would see a substantial improvement? A lot of games I play barely support x fire so this might be a no brainer.

Question 4

hello, I was wondering... does this gpu have a vga output? because it seems like it only has hdmi and dvi.

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Yes. It comes with an adapter which I use. I do not notice any graphical issues.

Question 5

Will this card work in a laptop? More specifically, an Alienware M17X R3/R4.

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This card is way to BIG and wasnt made for that purpose sadly. Because mine has been running like a champ, installed on my desktop.

Question 6

how would i plug two monitors in to this gpu?

Accepted Answer

You don't have to confine yourself to HDMI. Simply plug your monitors/tvs into your computer anyway you can and they will be detected. I have mine set up to a tv and a monitor and the way i did it is with an hdmi/dvi cable and a pure hdmi for the tv. The card doesn't care. Afterwards you can either use AMD catalyst (recommended) or use the windows display manager from the control panel.

Its also important to note that you can use the display port to daisy chain several monitors (up to 4) together via the single display port will providing audio to all monitors.

The card comes with 2 cables: pure Hdmi and hdmi/dvi.

Question 7

Can this be used with a GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX + SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard - this motherboard only has a PCI Express 2.0 slot?

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I gave this to my son so have no idea how it worked.  He told me what to order and seemed excited to get it for Christmas.

Question 8

What's the minimum PSU requirement for this card?

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I would recommend for you to have a 500watt psu as a minimum thought it will probably be in your best interest if you put in a a little bit more for a 600-750 watt PSU so that you'll be able to comfortably add drives, fans, components or even Crossfire in a year or two.

Question 9

this my 1st build and i was planning to upgrade my current build
MSI A88x g45 gaming
amd a10 7850k
g.skill 2x8gb 2133mhz
hyper evo 212
corsair cx500
1tb seagate baracuda

will this run perfectly on my current build,and give big improvement?..

thanks,

Accepted Answer

Yea, this card should run fine, in my rig I have an amd 8320 cpu,  gigabyte 990fxa ud3 MB,  corsair h100i cooler and 16 gb of 1600mhz gskill ram and I get  great performance in all games. This card will run most games on high/ultra at 40 to 60 fps with some AA but don't do anything too crazy with the AA.  It stays nice and cool and the msi afterburner software is so incredibly simple to use. Makes over clocking this card a dream. Speaking of that I got  my card to run stable at 1200mhz but I had to turn back the ram speed just a tiny bit to keep it stable. It's a great card and I highly recommend it, the only thing with your build that I would change would be, if your going to get a dedicated gpu, to switch out the apu for a cpu like the amd 6300, 8320 or 8350. And get the corresponding mobo. Highly recommend the 990fx chipset because of its extra pci-e lanes, makes it easy to drop a second on of these cards in and get amazing performance. Hope this helps you out and if you have any other questions I'll be glad to help out ^_^ and by the way I know it says I'm "sharon" but I'm Matthew, that's my mom.

Question 10

after installing this card my monitor screen is cut off all 4 sides
on a HDMI port when I change to DVI there is no cut off it fits to screen
any of you guys gets cut off when your using HDMI?

Accepted Answer

I did experience this same problem. I am using a 32 inch Vizio TV and had a black border around my display. I only rectified it by adjusting my borders through the TV menu.

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