Power Question

Boozebeard · 3 Aug 2010 at 12:35

Will a be quite dark power pro 550watt be enough to run my system in sig taking into account the over clock? Oh, there's a 7200rpm samsung drive that I didn't mention in the sig.

And will a the 400watt corsair be enough to run this system:
E5200
WD 7200rpm HDD
Dvd drive
1x2gb DDR2 667
EN6200LE TC512
Nothing overclocked, I'm assuming yes.

RJC · 3 Aug 2010 at 12:37

Yes to both

coldfused · 3 Aug 2010 at 12:42

yes - im using a 380W psu to run: e5300, 3gb ddr2, 120gb hd, nvidia 6600 gt :-)

Boozebeard · 3 Aug 2010 at 12:43

Cool, was just making sure.

pastymuncher · 3 Aug 2010 at 13:21

Easily on both account's. My rig in siggy only pulls a max of 274w at the wall and my second pc (general purpose pc) which has a higher spec (E8500, HD4650, 2x1Gb PC2-6400, DVDRW, HDD, fan controller, 2x 140mm fans and 3x 120mm fans) than your second pc draws a max of 168w at the wall.

koooowweeee · 3 Aug 2010 at 14:58

pastymuncher said:
Easily on both account's. My rig in siggy only pulls a max of 274w at the wall and my second pc (general purpose pc) which has a higher spec (E8500, HD4650, 2x1Gb PC2-6400, DVDRW, HDD, fan controller, 2x 140mm fans and 3x 120mm fans) than your second pc draws a max of 168w at the wall.

you sure that your sig rig only useds 274w q9550 clocked to 4ghz and a 5850 hmmmmm......

RJC · 3 Aug 2010 at 15:42

My i7 @ 4ghz with crossfire 5850 pulls 430w full load from the mains.

pastymuncher · 3 Aug 2010 at 18:57

koooowweeee said:
you sure that your sig rig only useds 274w q9550 clocked to 4ghz and a 5850 hmmmmm......

That's what the power monitor reads as does the Zalman ZM-MFC2. 5850 is'nt clocked but the cpu is, albeit with only 1.3v. Gaming use is mostly in the low to mid 220w.