Feeling small in the ahem trouser department?

WJA96 · 17 Apr 2006 at 20:30

1.1kW PSU? There's a thread somewhere else where someone is advising to swap from a 430W Seasonic to a 530W Seasonic for futureproofing. I think he needs to revise his future goals somewhat if the top machine of today needs 1.1kW of power. It's almost unbelievable.

georges · 17 Apr 2006 at 20:58

Yeah, but you don't future proof for the top of the range overkill option. You do it so you won't have to upgrade a part for the next gen new stuff.

This isn't new. It's just 2pcs put together

Next gen pc's will use less power, run faster with a single card(or 2.. possibly not on dx9 stuff, or not at 32xaa

) and have dx10support :rolleyes:

WJA96 · 17 Apr 2006 at 21:10

I take that point absolutely (even with all the smileys) but the Shuttles run SLi etc. with genuine 350W power supplies, so why does everything else need so much more?

In my opinion it doesn't. It's all people 'building in a bit extra' or 'future proofing' and as most people in the other thread stated, 430W by Seasonic is plenty.

Energize · 17 Apr 2006 at 23:19

The system wont use up that much power.

JonnyGLC · 17 Apr 2006 at 23:20

Energize said:
The system wont use up that much power.

When under full load it will

It's a 1kw power supply, it's not exactly gona sit there running off a hamster and a wheel is it?

Borden · 18 Apr 2006 at 08:16

Using this updated PSU calculator it worked out that the system would need 479W, at full load, with the FX60 overclocked to 2.8GHz. That calculator doesn't have the option to select quad SLi but i very much doubt that two more cards will take it up from 479W to 1.1Kw.

lay-z-boy · 18 Apr 2006 at 11:09

hm, the irony of such an expensive system is at lcd res, my system is probably faster than that, not to mention costing almost £3200 cheaper.

turbotoaster · 18 Apr 2006 at 13:43

mark1 said:
Using this updated PSU calculator it worked out that the system would need 479W, at full load, with the FX60 overclocked to 2.8GHz. That calculator doesn't have the option to select quad SLi but i very much doubt that two more cards will take it up from 479W to 1.1Kw.

according to that i need 697w before i even overclock my gfx cards, and if i ad in watercooling and everything im look at 800w

keyser · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:08

How does this effect my 'trouser department' ?

Borden · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:46

keyser said:
How does this effect my 'trouser department' ?

It's simple, if you have a small one then you buy this and it'll grow

Obviously you don't need it if you already have a big one

Feeling small in the *ahem* trouser department?

Feeling small in the ahem trouser department?