Can a 6970 and a 5850 run on same system?

[marshkop]

I have my 6970 2g for eyefinity and I would like to have another monitor or 2 for gauges and gps in FSX, so will both cards work for this NOT IN CROSSFIRE i know. I also have another acitve adapter for 4 montiors on my 6970 can i run all four, 3 for ifinity and one for guages and gps?

[Paradigm Shifter]

If they both run off the same driver version, it should work.

Trouble comes when you want to run "legacy" hardware with newer stuff.

[marshkop]

Thank you for responding so fast. Just one more question, I have a 700w psu, will this be enough for both cards?

[stickygreen]

I doubt it, I have one 5870 E6, and was thinking about getting a 2nd card, when looking up on the AMD web site, they recommended I get a 1200 Watt PSU, seemed a bit over kill, but you'd think they know what they are recommending...
I doubt 700 Watt would work for you, you'll probably need 850, or 1000 Watt.

[Haldi]

I've got an HD6970 running at 1.3v wit 980mhz OC'ed. and a C2DE8400 @1.35V 4ghz. If i use Prime95 and Furmark i get 500Watt power consumption! When Playing Crysis it's 350 watt!

The maximum consumption for a 5850 is 170Watt. So you might just make it with a 700W PSU, depending on your CPU.

You could try it out, and buy a better PSU if it's now working perfect.... or are there any chances of damaging a GPU if it doenst get enough Power?