PSU + New upgrades.. can't find a good calc..

[Deaco]

Heya, thinking of upgrading in the coming months..

So far thinking of getting:

Q6660 and OCing (hopefully to 3.2-3.6 - although never Oced before >< )
2x500gig F1's in Raid 0 with perhaps eventually another couple to make RAID 0,1 or 1,0 - need to research that too ;(
A new noctua 120mm plus TRUE Heatsink
2x2Gb of RAM
An Asus p5ke-wifi, with wifi being used some of the time but not always.
And perhaps one of the new ATi cards (depending on how they perform to cost)


Will eventually get a Blu Ray Drive and replace my existing DVD drive, a new soundcard, preferabbly a decent xi-fi with Dolby Digital encoding.
Also thinking about getting some CC Tubes and a Fan controller.

Currently have 2 120mm Akasa Amber's and perhaps 4 things that power off the USB (mouse, keyboard etc so not huge drain).

Now my question is, will a 480W PSU cope?

Thinking of getting a Corsair Modular but 660W doesn't seem a great improvement on my current situation and the 1kW is a bit steep aswell as the parts for upgrading.

Looked all over the internet to find a good calc, and everyone seems to give a vastly different answer - one being 343W when gaming another nearly 700.

Will definately upgrade to the 1kW in the future - just need to know whether I need it before I upgrade or sometime after.

Thanks a lot.

 

[Deaco]

Crikey, cheers for the quick reply.. so do you reckon my 480W would struggle?

Would upgrade to a bigger PSU than 520W if I was too upgrade now, because some of these new GPU seem like right ol' hogs when it comes to power..

 

[Deaco]

Cheers, yeah, usually try my best to keep things pretty future proof. Would still use my CPU if PCI-E hadn't have taken over AGP.

My lil XP 3200+ still runs ruddy quick, but my 9800 XT is a bit slow although must be a fair few years old now - and yeah I know NV and Ati both have AGP cards.. Im not 100% sure they'd be much of an improvement and kinda feels like I'm throwing money away by buying them.

 

[Deaco]

Ohh maybe I'm being a bit too hasty, what RAM do you use? Currently have 2x512mb Corsair Twin X - thought I had 2 gigs.. that was a bit of a shock when I saw POST for the first time in a while

I mean to be fair money aint exactly burning a whole in my wallet, just heard that the Q6660 is being phased out soonish and sounds like something even I could OC, but perhaps I just need to give some TLC and replace a few bits.

 

[Deaco]

Very true, there is always something on the horizon.. was wondering if there was anyway I could hold out till the new intel chips come out, but think this comp would ahve moved onto a better place (Media PC ).

Will deffo have to look into the possibility of keeping this going, because to be fair it does run everything I need to, just about.

Cheers