580W sufficient for 2900 Pro + 1 HD + 1 optical drive?

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As per the title, I have:

Intel E6750
1 x optical drive
1 x HD (75 GB raptor)
1 x Sapphire HD 2900 Pro

I read somewhere the graphics cards user 360W under load! Is the remaining 220W ok?

What if I wanted to add three further drives?
 
marcosscriven said:
As per the title, I have:

Intel E6750
1 x optical drive
1 x HD (75 GB raptor)
1 x Sapphire HD 2900 Pro

I read somewhere the graphics cards user 360W under load! Is the remaining 220W ok?

What if I wanted to add three further drives?
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580W is easily enough, I run a Q6600 at 3.4ghz, a 2900XT, 1 x optical drive and an HDD on a 500W Akasa PSU, it's never skipped a beat.

Of course, if you're thinking of getting a Hiper Type R, I couldn't possibly comment other than to say "don't bother"
 
Lol, I don't even know what a Hiper Type R is? I assume a popular PSU?

How much juice to HDs use? I have a few spare that I might put to use - would a total of 4 drives (ie 3 extra) still be ok?

Ta
 
marcosscriven said:
Lol, I don't even know what a Hiper Type R is? I assume a popular PSU?

How much juice to HDs use? I have a few spare that I might put to use - would a total of 4 drives (ie 3 extra) still be ok?

Ta
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Hipers are cheap, nasty PSU's (despite all the cheapskates who'll no doubt flood in and say "omg, how dare you, mines been running for 20 years solid!!"!"!"

No idea on the extra HDD's, I've run 3 with my PSU so I'm sure you could get away with 4 with an extra 80 watts.
 
ROFL @ the Hyper Type R its like a Honda Civic except more like a Datsun Sunny! Mate don't bother with any PSU besides an Enermax... yes they are relatively expensive but they will never let you down plus they are quite! Amazing PSUs!
 
Cuchulain said:
Hipers are cheap, nasty PSU's (despite all the cheapskates who'll no doubt flood in and say "omg, how dare you, mines been running for 20 years solid!!"!"!"
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Heh, I've got a hiper. It's been running fine for me for a good year-ish.
The only problem I found with it was that I had to remove the HDD fan from my Antec P180 as the connectors are really long.

At the time my old PSU was dieing big time, I basically wanted something with modular cabling and the choices were a bit limited.
 
You can put your hardware specs into this calculator to see what the power requirements are for different hardware scenarios:

PSU Calculator

I suppose you could allow around 15-20w for a HDD...:)
 
Very nice link there jbloggs. Interesting to see the sort of power the pc takes.

According to that mine draws about 369W - using the PSu in sig so more than enough.

Might have to reconsider if i go the upgrade route again.
 
wow cool my computer only draws around 300W of power. My 560W corsair PSU is well more than enough
 
Corsair make the VX450, VX550 (value items but still VERY good), the HX520, HX620 (Quality items very highly rated), and the new TX720 (or TX750 can't remember). Any of those PSU's are worth getting, but if you heavily overclock I would recomend at least getting the HX520W, or for better future proofing the HX620.

OR just about any seasonic, or if your that mad apparently the Thermaltake toughpower 750w is actually pretty good ;)

Could add many more to the list (including enermax), but just saying is my 'generic' 580w psu good enough, is not enough information. Need details on what brand and model it is to advise.

Matthew
 
I run the following on an Enermax Noisetaker 465w

X2 3800 @ 2.7Ghz
A8N-E
1.5GB PC3200 RAM
2x 250GB IDE HDDs
DVD ROM
DVDRW
2900 Pro
3x 120mm fans
 
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