We look at the board for a PCI-e x16 slot. If one exists, then its compatible as long as you have a power supply. Chances are it is compatible considering its an ASUS Deluxe board.
Yes, the cards peak power is slightly above the last generation, but the idle is considerably less. 500w from a good brand should be just fine. Its not like a game today can push the card to its peak.
Can you even buy a motherboard these days without a PCIE x16 slot? Forgetting for a second that the board comes from Asus, and therefore isn't going to be bottom of the barrel by default (unlike a few "biostar" motherboards I've purchased in the past...), I don't even know if I've seen a desktop PC or a motherboard without a slot to upgrade video cards since the days of AGP slots. Note I say that like it was such a long time ago
the only issue you will have is with ASUS' sixengine power utilization software, as it only recognizes asus branded video cards. but if this is really important to you, you can flash an asus bios onto the card.
As for the 500W that depends on what else you have in your rig, if your running anything more then a disc drive 1HDD and the video card you may need more power - but im a little biased towards providing more Watts then required. there are many tools to calculate the amount of power your rig will need, try extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp
Yup the PCI-e slot is what lets you know it works. It doesn't even need to be 16x, an 8x or 4x slot would work too. PCI-e 2.0 cards are generally backward compatible with PCI-e 1.1 mobos and such (there've been occasional problem cards, like the 8800's). But yours, like any modern mobo, is PCI-e 2.0 so no worries.
Usually what people are actually talking about when they are saying whether the video card goes in a specific mobo is whether the mobo's multiple PCI-e slots support SLI (nvidia cards), Crossfire (ATI cards), or more recently both - but this doesn't ever prohibit you from putting in just a single card from either manufacturer, it just determines which brand works in multi-GPU setup.
According to ASUS's product page your mobo supports Crossfire for their multi-GPU setup, so sticking with ATI cards is the better way to go if you ever think there's a chance of you buying a 2nd 5850 to put in Crossfire.
I think that at 500W, one probably has a enough power to run a 5850 without any trouble, but I wouldn't go much lower than that, and it has to be a decent PSU with 500W of continuous power as well. If it's some cheap thing from Rosewill or POWMAX that only gives 500W of peak power, then I'd be very scared about powering anythingwith it.
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We look at the board for a PCI-e x16 slot. If one exists, then its compatible as long as you have a power supply. Chances are it is compatible considering its an ASUS Deluxe board.
Well.. If i'm paying 260$ for a card I want 100% facts, not a chance it could not work.
Anyway, is a 500W power supply good enough for it?
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Yes, the cards peak power is slightly above the last generation, but the idle is considerably less. 500w from a good brand should be just fine. Its not like a game today can push the card to its peak.
Spec link: P5q Deluxe
Under expansion slots says it has 2 16x pci-e 2.0 slots
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Can you even buy a motherboard these days without a PCIE x16 slot? Forgetting for a second that the board comes from Asus, and therefore isn't going to be bottom of the barrel by default (unlike a few "biostar" motherboards I've purchased in the past...), I don't even know if I've seen a desktop PC or a motherboard without a slot to upgrade video cards since the days of AGP slots. Note I say that like it was such a long time ago
lol probs not new no
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the only issue you will have is with ASUS' sixengine power utilization software, as it only recognizes asus branded video cards. but if this is really important to you, you can flash an asus bios onto the card.
As for the 500W that depends on what else you have in your rig, if your running anything more then a disc drive 1HDD and the video card you may need more power - but im a little biased towards providing more Watts then required. there are many tools to calculate the amount of power your rig will need, try extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp
Yup the PCI-e slot is what lets you know it works. It doesn't even need to be 16x, an 8x or 4x slot would work too. PCI-e 2.0 cards are generally backward compatible with PCI-e 1.1 mobos and such (there've been occasional problem cards, like the 8800's). But yours, like any modern mobo, is PCI-e 2.0 so no worries.
Usually what people are actually talking about when they are saying whether the video card goes in a specific mobo is whether the mobo's multiple PCI-e slots support SLI (nvidia cards), Crossfire (ATI cards), or more recently both - but this doesn't ever prohibit you from putting in just a single card from either manufacturer, it just determines which brand works in multi-GPU setup.
According to ASUS's product page your mobo supports Crossfire for their multi-GPU setup, so sticking with ATI cards is the better way to go if you ever think there's a chance of you buying a 2nd 5850 to put in Crossfire.
I think that at 500W, one probably has a enough power to run a 5850 without any trouble, but I wouldn't go much lower than that, and it has to be a decent PSU with 500W of continuous power as well. If it's some cheap thing from Rosewill or POWMAX that only gives 500W of peak power, then I'd be very scared about powering anything with it.