corsair cx400

Jony27 · 11 Sep 2010 at 11:44

just wondering what sort of tower can the cx400 run

stulid · 11 Sep 2010 at 11:47

i7, ATI 5770 or GTX460, a disk drive or two

its a good psu for its price.

Jony27 · 11 Sep 2010 at 11:50

thanks stulid,,i asked you this question on someones thread but didnt understand the power consumption chart

would it be pushing it with the gtx460?

stulid · 11 Sep 2010 at 11:57

no its not,

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3809/nvidias-geforce-gtx-460-the-200-king/17

look at the crysis and furmark power draw charts, furmark puts the most strain onto a system, and even that is under the 400w of the psu.

this is the test system used,

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3809/nvidias-geforce-gtx-460-the-200-king/5

from all the info i have seen around the net, a psu runs best at around 75%, so its fine.

the CX400 only has one pci-e connector, luckily there will be a molex to pci-e adaptor in the graphics card box.

Jony27 · 11 Sep 2010 at 12:12

does it matter how many hdds and case fans you run on the cx400?

stulid · 11 Sep 2010 at 12:16

Jony27 said:
does it matter how many hdds and case fans you run on the cx400?

not really, theres still headroom to spare, wonder how many sata connectors the psu has as well as molex?

Tealc · 11 Sep 2010 at 12:16

Not really. Hard Drives use about 20W at Max and Case Fans use about 2-3W on average. Provided you have enough peripheral connectors (Molex) and Sata connectors you should be fine, unless you have dozens of drives and fans.

stulid · 11 Sep 2010 at 12:19

probably got 10X 2TB drives for the PORNZ

Jony27 · 11 Sep 2010 at 12:27

stulid said:
probably got 10X 2TB drives for the PORNZ

hahaha,,only have one 75gb atm from old pc.

Jony27 · 11 Sep 2010 at 13:56

oh and one more thing what kind of overclock can you do,would an additional 500-600MHz be pushing it too far,,if that made sense.
thanks

stulid · 11 Sep 2010 at 14:50

Jony27 said:
oh and one more thing what kind of overclock can you do,would an additional 500-600MHz be pushing it too far,,if that made sense.
thanks

still good to go.

Jony27 · 11 Sep 2010 at 14:52

thanks for clarifying that

stulid · 11 Sep 2010 at 15:00

if it helps you confirm your choice of psu,

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Corsair-CX400W-Power-Supply-Review/750

pastymuncher · 11 Sep 2010 at 15:14

Just as a rough idea, the rig in my siggy plus 5x fans, Zalman ZM-MFC2 multifunction controller, Hdd, dvdrw pulls a peak of 320w at the wall and that's when running Furmark and Prime at the same time. Bearing in mind the cpu and gpu are overvolted and heavily clocked that's pretty low.

Jony27 · 11 Sep 2010 at 15:22

320w,what psu are you using

pastymuncher · 12 Sep 2010 at 14:32

The overly large one in my siggy. Got it before i found out how little juice a pc actually needs. I suppose it will last me through a few more upgrades though.

Jony27 · 12 Sep 2010 at 14:34

oh ok thanks,,i thought the zalman was a fan

RJC · 12 Sep 2010 at 16:02

Did this yesterday with rig:

Done some power testing the other day with my power meter and see what my rig pulled from the mains:

615w with Prime & Fur Mark running
405w with Prime running
503w with Fur Mark running
272w Idle

Jony27 · 12 Sep 2010 at 16:08

hi thanks RJC,
what kind of games can draw the same amount of wattage as prime does

Tealc · 12 Sep 2010 at 16:08

RJC; said:
Did this yesterday with rig:

Done some power testing the other day with my power meter and see what my rig pulled from the mains:

615w with Prime & Fur Mark running
405w with Prime running
503w with Fur Mark running
272w Idle

Looks like that 480 draws a lot of power, even at idle. My fully laden system draws 450w with a 4890 and 155w at idle.