I concur. I have always OC'ed my gaming rig - both CPU and GPU. Highest system load I have seen with a single GPU is around 400W*. 660W, with even 80% load at 528W, is plenty.
*The latest figure is based on FX8370E 4.3GHz OC and R9 290X @ 1100/1400 - a reputed powerhog (supposedly).
If you run into a broken IOMMU implementation where the BIOS doesn't populate the IVRS table properly, you can fix it by injecting correct entries via a grub boot command.
Reference: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2254677
I fixed my ASUS motherboards this way. ;)
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$104 is the lowest I have seen. It was no lower than $150 only a few months ago. Great ECC UDIMM for home server/NAS. Make sure you motherboard and CPU support ECC ram.
A bit of history:
"The R3xx chip was designed by ATI's west coast team (formerly ArtX Inc.), and the first product to use it was the Radeon 9700 PRO (internal ATI code name: R300; internal ArtX codename: Khan), launched in August 2002. The architecture of R300 was quite different from its...
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