What Power Supply should I get?

petemyster · 7 Oct 2008 at 13:56

What kind of power supply should i get? How many Watts?
processor: Q6600
RAM: 4gb
Graphics card: 4870x2
1TB Hard drive
I can't remember the rest of the system specs at the minute, but if you need them i'll post them if I need to, when I get home

Coxyis · 7 Oct 2008 at 14:00

petemyster said:
What kind of power supply should i get? How many Watts?
processor: Q6600
RAM: 4gb
Graphics card: 4870x2
1TB Hard drive
I can't remember the rest of the system specs at the minute, but if you need them i'll post them if I need to, when I get home

Looks like I have a similar setup to you, THIS seems to be serving me pretty well though...

Captain_Slick · 7 Oct 2008 at 14:03

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...name=Corsair TX 750W ATX2.2 SLI Compliant PSU

Good value for money, excellent performance and efficiency. Not as quiet as the Be Quiet! above, but not as expensive and more powerful. Not modular though, so if you wanted that you could get this instead for the same price:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...X2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK)

Jolteh · 7 Oct 2008 at 14:14

What sort of price range were you looking at?

petemyster · 7 Oct 2008 at 16:24

Jolteh said:
What sort of price range were you looking at?

i don't really mind, though i don't want it to be so expensive its a rip off

p4radox · 7 Oct 2008 at 17:08

Corsair HX 620W.

shaffaaf27 · 7 Oct 2008 at 17:27

the Be Quiet one, i have, and one cannot hear it. also you can plug your case fans into it, and it will run them for 3 mins after shut down to get rid of heat.

its very efficient, much more than the ageing hx620 aswell.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/07/29/be-quiet-dark-power-pro-650w/1

petemyster · 7 Oct 2008 at 18:18

I was looking at a 850watt one, though that would appear to be overkill

then again, i could get the 850watts and in the future, with upgrades which will require more power, I wouldn't have to buy a new power supply.

Thoughts?

shaffaaf27 · 7 Oct 2008 at 18:54

yeah, or even more so you could get a 1200W

850 seems good, even for 2 4870X2s.

Bennie-Mac · 7 Oct 2008 at 21:42

Just out of interest what case do you have?

Kalpsn2000 · 7 Oct 2008 at 22:49

p4radox said:
Corsair HX 620W.

+1

Great PSU. Had it for 14 months now and its been solid.

reflux · 7 Oct 2008 at 23:23

petemyster said:
I was looking at a 850watt one, though that would appear to be overkill

then again, i could get the 850watts and in the future, with upgrades which will require more power, I wouldn't have to buy a new power supply.

Thoughts?

I am running my rig off the following...

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...iper 880W HPU-4M880 SLi Certified ATX 2.2 PSU