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GTX480

Anything over 600 and you should be fine, when under absolute max stress (furmark etc) it draws around 400w.

As for temps, they are high but 90+ isnt going to damage them. Nothing a little mroe agressive fan profile cant fix.
 
it depends what the rest of your system is to guage which power supply would suit tbh. But these peak around 288w i believe.

As for the heat, that is normal for the 480. apparently some say the fan gets very loud others say it doesn't. but that is your choice if you want a hot noisy card in your case.

Compare it with the 5870 which idles around 30°c and peaks at 60°c and power usage of around 180w it's completely different.

but if all you want is the fastest then get the 480 and you wont care about the above.

personally i'd wait till the new 6*** series come out from AMD and then decide.
 
height and width of the psu's are all the same i believe but the length varies on power size.
a 650w corsair is slightly smaller in length to a 750w corsair but a 1000w is even longer.

what do you have currently?

all i will say is don't scrimp on a power supply. spend the money on a decent one
 
Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-00599)

Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 10666C8 1333MHz Dual-Channel (CMX4GX3M2A1333C8)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000528AS)

Samsung SH-D162D/BEBE IDE 16x DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM

Im actually still in the process of building it, and i haven't yet bought a power supply. and im still waiting on the arrival of a new CPU. As the one i bought was the wrong sized socket, thus im sending it back for the correct one :/
 
Im sure in the future ill probably begin to overclock, but it's gonna be staying stock for a good few months at first. and 750w it is.

Are there any brands you would recommend?
 
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corsair, be-quiet and i believe coolermaster are ok but don't quote me on that.

also if you can find one, go modular. means less cables and easier to hide away.

see my build log in my sig to see how many cables my 650 has. it'll change to modular when i can be bothered.
 
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magicroundabout said:
i'd assume you'll overclock your CPU and possibly your GC so i'd say minimum 750w.

pick a top brand which can cope with all the power and it will last you a long time
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um...a system with a GTX480 only peak at 479W in furmark, and only 421W in Crysis:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/158

Even if both the CPU and the GTX480 were overclocked, it would probably pull extra 100W at most and that's about it. So a decent 600-650W PSU would be enough.
 
If you ever wish to get a second one i'd look at 1000watt psus like corsair or the new 1200watt one. If single gpu only then you'll be perfectly fine with 750watts. Ive found the xfx ones to be good as they have a single rail so you can't even muck up the cabling.
 
TX 650 if you are planning on one 480, a TX 750 will run two easily.

People that are suggesting 800W plus are being a little overkill, just depends if you want the expandability of another card in the future though.
 
If you want the best psu get this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-027-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1084

750w and silent for all intents and purposes (it's also probably the most efficient psu on the market and fully modular) expensive but will last you years and years.

I run an i7 at 4.1ghz, gtx 480 900 on the core (if I need it) a pump, 8 fans (on two fan controllers) 3 hard drives, two opticals, a sound card, tv card and wireless card and it doesn't break a sweat.

By far the best psu I have ever owned.
 
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