Power Supply?

stickroad

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Ive got a 580 Watt Hiper Power Supply, will it be enough for a 8800 GTX Graphics Card plus running a Core 2 Duo 6400 and Two Hard Drives?

Thanks
 
If you are going to overclock it will struggle. They cannot actually put out 580w and it is also horribly innefficient. See here . Coupled with the fact that it will blow up sooner or later, and quite possibly take out some of your components with it, i recommend you buy one from a reputable manufacturer such as Seasonic, OCZ, Corsair, Enermax etc.
 
pastymuncher said:
If you are going to overclock it will struggle. They cannot actually put out 580w and it is also horribly innefficient. See here . Coupled with the fact that it will blow up sooner or later, and quite possibly take out some of your components with it, i recommend you buy one from a reputable manufacturer such as Seasonic, OCZ, Corsair, Enermax etc.
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what do you mean it WILL blow up sooner or later, saying thats just plain dumb, theres no garanties that it will blow up. they arnt bad psu's, i have one, infact they thread is about me, stickroad (fred) posted this thread for me while we were at college, he was on the site and i was doing work, i asked him to post it...

i know atleast 3 people with the same psu and they have never had any problems with it

back to the point, what we (i) wanted to know was, will it run with out a problem at 580 watts, if not , wahts wattage do you recomend

nomore slaging off products - thats not why im hear
 
You cannot deny that a hell of a lot of these damn things have blown up for no reason lately. If you keep track of the forums we are talking several dozen. Try doing a search. A lot of us lost quite a bit of money in components because of it. I used to stick up for them until mine blew after around 14 months. Yewen alone, has had four blow on him. You mean to tell me they are high quality.

Rubbish. Get down off your high horse and chill.

If you read the link i posted up the page it cannot make 580w at all. As i also said you are better going for a decent brand suchs as the ones i mentioned. A lot of people have been recommending Corsair HX's lately and they seem to be very good. In that case the 620w should do you. If you want more power then i can highly recommend the Seasonic S12 650w Energy+. That's what i replaced my deceased Hiper with.
 
pastymuncher said:
You cannot deny that a hell of a lot of these damn things have blown up for no reason lately. If you keep track of the forums we are talking several dozen. Try doing a search. A lot of us lost quite a bit of money in components because of it. I used to stick up for them until mine blew after around 14 months. Yewen alone, has had four blow on him. You mean to tell me they are high quality.

Rubbish. Get down off your high horse and chill.

If you read the link i posted up the page it cannot make 580w at all. As i also said you are better going for a decent brand suchs as the ones i mentioned. A lot of people have been recommending Corsair HX's lately and they seem to be very good. In that case the 620w should do you. If you want more power then i can highly recommend the Seasonic S12 650w Energy+. That's what i replaced my deceased Hiper with.
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thanx, by the way , were you running 2 overclocked 7800's ? and an overclocked cpu ? and how many hard drives ? sound card maybe ?

hmm.....thought so, i havent overclocked any of my latest gear since i got the psu, im running an 1800XT and an athlon 3200, 1 hard drive, xfi sound card

now can you work out why my psu hasnt blown and yours has ? i can, you put to much strain on it , i havnt put any strain on it. you dont like it because you bought a product that was unfit for the job you wanted it to do and you got angry when it didnt work. i on the other hand got the perfect PSU for the job that i was doing and it worked....see my point?

if you want to run that sort of rig with a psu that you know cant take it - what do you expect ? they arnt bad, these people that you mention just bought them because they were cheap and available

NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE RIGHT FOR THE JOB

do you see my point now ?

there good....but not for you
 
Obviously if your going to overclock components then its going to demand greater power from your PSU. So you will need more watts and stronger rails. Another factor of overclocking which I don't like... unpredictable.
 
stickroad: I have checked the M series Hiper which I think yours is and it seems to have dual rails 18A and 20A on both 12V. This should provide you with enough power for the GTX and your system. However, it doesn't future proof you. Overclocking etc might be out of the question.
 
mishima said:
stickroad: I have checked the M series Hiper which I think yours is and it seems to have dual rails 18A and 20A on both 12V. This should provide you with enough power for the GTX and your system. However, it doesn't future proof you. Overclocking etc might be out of the question.
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thank you,

thats all i needed to know, i have to get the parts intermitently, like CPU, Mobo, ram and gfx first then later the 2 hdd's and vista.

then if i still wanted to overclock i would get another psu
- one thats right for the job
 
alex2zulu said:
thanx, by the way , were you running 2 overclocked 7800's ? and an overclocked cpu ? and how many hard drives ? sound card maybe ?

hmm.....thought so, i havent overclocked any of my latest gear since i got the psu, im running an 1800XT and an athlon 3200, 1 hard drive, xfi sound card

now can you work out why my psu hasnt blown and yours has ? i can, you put to much strain on it , i havnt put any strain on it. you dont like it because you bought a product that was unfit for the job you wanted it to do and you got angry when it didnt work. i on the other hand got the perfect PSU for the job that i was doing and it worked....see my point?

if you want to run that sort of rig with a psu that you know cant take it - what do you expect ? they arnt bad, these people that you mention just bought them because they were cheap and available

NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE RIGHT FOR THE JOB

do you see my point now ?

there good....but not for you
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Listen know it all. I was not running anything overclocked at the time. It was'nt even on this pc so get your sodding facts right. It was powering the two 7800's at STOCK, but then it is recommended for sli'd 7800's. In fact it's recommended for 7900's sli'd and they are clocked faster. It took out the rig it was powering. All it had was 2 hdds, 1x dvdrw, an audigy 2ZS, a floppy along with a 754 motherboard and a 3700+. So stick that where the sun does'nt shine.

Also, try telling that to everyone else who has had a Hiper blow on them. Have you done a forum search? No! Did'nt think so.

The original post asked an opinion. I gave it and you launched a personal attack on me.

Bloody well GROW UP!!
 
Yes a Hiper 580w will power it no trouble, those PSU's are Crossfire certified for 2 x1900's/x1950 XTX's in Corssfire which use a helluva lot more power than the GTX, so if they can power 2x of those, they'll power the national grid. :D
 
pastymuncher said:
Listen know it all. I was not running anything overclocked at the time. It was'nt even on this pc so get your sodding facts right. It was powering the two 7800's at STOCK, but then it is recommended for sli'd 7800's. In fact it's recommended for 7900's sli'd and they are clocked faster. It took out the rig it was powering. All it had was 2 hdds, 1x dvdrw, an audigy 2ZS, a floppy along with a 754 motherboard and a 3700+. So stick that where the sun does'nt shine.

Also, try telling that to everyone else who has had a Hiper blow on them. Have you done a forum search? No! Did'nt think so.

The original post asked an opinion. I gave it and you launched a personal attack on me.

Bloody well GROW UP!!
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sombodys getting abit out of there tree :rolleyes:

i have found my answer and consider the thread closed.....so dont spam it ;)
 
I owned a Hiper 580w PSU for three day before it started rattling. I share Pastymuncher's low opinion of Hiper's shiny bling PSUs. As surprisingly did a number of reviewers, including Custom PC magazine. As Pastymuncher suggests, if you do a search on this and other forums you'll find a large number of disgruntled ex-Hiper PSU owners.
 
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