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Hey
Looking for some advice to pass on.
My housemate wants to build a new rig. He's looking at something like this:
Q6600 oced
4-8gb ram
sli or an 3870X2 with option to add another later for crossfireX
He wants to raid 0 two 1TB drives and probably add some more later [so say 4-5 total]
Couple of sammy dvd writers from his old rig
Finally his water setup from his old rig
What kind of volts is he looking at for this. I had a look on some PSU sites and they recommended crazy volts for this kind of setup like 1000W+ but I've seen people say they can run the above spec and more on much smaller PSUs. So whats the deal
what kind of power does he need and any recommendations for an appropriate PSU.
Thanks in advance for any info
Danny
Looking for some advice to pass on.
My housemate wants to build a new rig. He's looking at something like this:
Q6600 oced
4-8gb ram
sli or an 3870X2 with option to add another later for crossfireX
He wants to raid 0 two 1TB drives and probably add some more later [so say 4-5 total]
Couple of sammy dvd writers from his old rig
Finally his water setup from his old rig
What kind of volts is he looking at for this. I had a look on some PSU sites and they recommended crazy volts for this kind of setup like 1000W+ but I've seen people say they can run the above spec and more on much smaller PSUs. So whats the deal
what kind of power does he need and any recommendations for an appropriate PSU.Thanks in advance for any info
Danny
) consumes about 200 watts under load which equates to 17 amps. So, two of the ATI graphics processing units will equate to 34 amps. An Intel Q6600 overclocked to 3.3GHz will consume about 150 watts which equals to 13 amps. Now, if we add the hard drives into the situation rated at one amp each, plus the water cooling and finally some extra amps for the headroom, this system will be pulling around 56 amps of the +12Volt rail.