Don't know what wattage PSU

domthecondom · 1 Sep 2009 at 12:19

Hi,

I am stuck on choosing a PSU for my new build. I think 1K is a bit overkill for mine, but I am not sure.

What WATT Psu should I get?

Specs as following:

I7 920 (Will be overclocked)
A Gigabyte mobo
Geforce 295 (Might Overclock)
XFI Sound card
Hard drives will be either 4 x raptors for raid and 1 500GB for storage or 2 x SDD RAID + 500GB storage
About 8 FANS

CPU, GPU and MOBO will be watercooled.

I hope this is enough info

Thanks for reading

davetrace1 · 1 Sep 2009 at 12:21

800w - 1000w

domthecondom · 1 Sep 2009 at 12:26

Oh also wanted to add I might SLI the 295 and leave some more room for more HDDS

Lemin · 1 Sep 2009 at 13:43

http://forums.slizone.com/index.php?showtopic=34565

http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_build_psu.html

1000w + advised above.

fross · 1 Sep 2009 at 14:06

SLi is your main wattage killer. 700-800 would be fine for the system you have at the moment, particularly if you use SSDs instead of 4 raptors. If you want to SLi 295s, you're looking at 1kW.

domthecondom · 1 Sep 2009 at 15:06

Well the SLI has not been decided yet, it depends on how much money I will have once the whole PC is build!.

But I don't want to get a 800W PSU and then decide to go SLI and get a new PSU