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2 x GTX295 Power Supply?
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Soldato
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I would suggest going for a 850W PSU for those graphics cards. 750W should also be enough, but it will give you much less power headroom. Something like the corsair hx 850w would be a great psu to go for.
however, i would not suggest going for a second gtx 295. the performance scales pretty badly by adding another GTX 295 and in return the heat of the GPUs will climb as will the fan noise.
I assume you don't plan to add a second GTX 295 any time soon - you just want the option in the future. However, I must strongly suggest against this as by the time you need more graphics power (considering a single 295 is about as fast as a Fermi GTX 480 - that will be quite a while) much faster, quieter and energy efficient graphics cards will be out by then and buying an ancient card like the 295 then will seem like madness.
however, i would not suggest going for a second gtx 295. the performance scales pretty badly by adding another GTX 295 and in return the heat of the GPUs will climb as will the fan noise.
I assume you don't plan to add a second GTX 295 any time soon - you just want the option in the future. However, I must strongly suggest against this as by the time you need more graphics power (considering a single 295 is about as fast as a Fermi GTX 480 - that will be quite a while) much faster, quieter and energy efficient graphics cards will be out by then and buying an ancient card like the 295 then will seem like madness.
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This, if you can find it in stock. If you want to save some money (in the short term at least) the Corsair HX 750W is also a great PSU and will do the job fine.
Thanks for the reply mate.
I have seen reviews of them in Quad SLi and the scaling is poor!
I only asked the question because I saw a cheap one for £200 and was going to chuck it in and see what it was like!
i can vouch for that PSU
(paid £122 elswhere) ive had my rig in sig for 2 months and done loads of bench testing / stressing ect and the dust filter i have on my FD r2 case that covers the PSU intake has never needed cleaning = the PWM fan has never needed to come on = never got hot/near its full load = 100% silent = v/nice PSU
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