PSU spec please

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Which PSU??

Ok guys I nearly have completed the holy rig of Stelly but I need a PSU... I dont know which to get as I have a quite full setup so I need your advice my specs are;

Conroe Extreme
Intel Bad Axe
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 (2x1GB)
Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT-X 512MB
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music
2 x Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB WD360GD 10,000RPM SATA 8MB
2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB
Custom Water Cooling System (CPU and GPU)
4 x Case Fans
1 x DVDRW
1 x DVDROM
1 x Digital TV Card

Let me know which PSU you think I should get....

and I will be overclocking ;)

Stelly
 
That is the holy mother of Conroe's on here so far! I think you'll need a fair bit of juice for that X1900, so here's what i'd opt for (the obvious):

Enermax Liberty 620W
FSP Epsilon 600W
Seasonic S12 600W
Tagan Easycon 580W

Congrats once again on the X6800! :D
 
Ok I'm looking at the Seasonic and the Enermax... advise on both please??

(and thanks fenderbass86 mean a lot mate :))

Stelly
 
I'd go for the Seasonic myself, but you do pay extra for the extremely low noise so if thats not a requirement perhaps save a little money and go for the enermax.
It also depends if you want modular or not, will you be using all the cables it comes with or only a few?
 
Joe42 said:
I'd go for the Seasonic myself, but you do pay extra for the extremely low noise so if thats not a requirement perhaps save a little money and go for the enermax.
It also depends if you want modular or not, will you be using all the cables it comes with or only a few?
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Looking at the spec I think the lot to be honest... I was thinking about going Seasonic... as I do like them and I'm trying to make the computer as noise free as possible.... will this PSU be ok with the Gfx card I have got??

Stelly
 
The sleeves around the cables on the Enermax Liberty are supposedly quite stiff and a bit hard to manouever around the case, but it's got serious power and is very quiet. The Seasonic is supposed to be a little quieter but isn't modular like the Enermax (yet). I'm going for a Tagan Easycon 530W for my Conroe Rig. Obviously won't be much compared to yours!
 
I think the 500w would be fine.
Are you thinking of going crossfire in the future? you might need the 600w if you are.
Don't see the point in modular myself, your bound to use all but one or two of the cables anyway.
 
Enermax Liberty 620W:

Pros
Rock solid rails
Well cooled with honey comb grills and "Silent" 120mm fan
Looks awesome, the offsets with the black brilliantly
Lots of goodies

Cons
Cable braiding is a bit thick
A tad Expensive

Seasonic S12 600W:

Pros:
600w power
80% efficiency
Support for all the latest and upcoming technologies
SATA connectors
Solid manufacturing
PCIe VGA connectors (SLI Ready)
ATX/ATX12V/BTX/EPS
Dr. Cable kit
Quiet operation
EZ Grip molex
twisted wiring

Cons:
Mixed style SATA connectors
Only 6 molex connectors
A little pricey
 
The new revision Seasonics have more molex cables, although i'm told by ocuk its currently pot luck which you get at the moment...
The new revision also has sleeved cables rather than dr cable.

What do you mean by mixed style sata connectors?
 
Do you really need 500, 600watts? Seems over the top to me. Would be interested in knowing how much wattage this tool suggests you need: http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp
I tried it specing with the highest core duo overclocked at 5 gig and only needed ~280 watts in total including 2 hdds, 2gig ram and all the other stuff in my PC. I wonder how accurate that tool is.

OK I just tried a similar spec to yours and got ~400 watt. That GPU uses about 70 more watts than mine and u have all those case fans and hdds, that'll be it
 
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I suggested the 500w Seasonic version because you get a little extra headroom and pci-e power connectors which you don't get on the 430w version. I agree the 600w version is too powerfull.

The only reason you need such a powerfull psu is the amount of power modern graphics cards draw off the 12v rail, without a graphics card that pc would probably run off a 350w decent psu quite happily.

Its also nice to have some headroom, to allow for high combined drive spinup current draw, and to ensure that the psu isn't working too near its maximum rating so it stays cool, quiet and efficient.

I would have recomended the 430w model for this pc but having read a lot recently about people having problems with graphics cards drawing massive amounts of power i'm reluctant to recommend low wattage psus.

In most cases however, the fact that modern pcs rarely draw more than 300w still stands.
 
I'm thinking the 600w because I will go dual graphics as some stage next year, I'm waiting for the DX10 cards to come out

Stelly
 
well if your buying a conroe XtReMe then, may i suggest an extreme psu to go with it?

a tagan 900w should have rock solid rails, be future proof and handle anything you throw at it.
 
lay-z-boy said:
well if your buying a conroe XtReMe then, may i suggest an extreme psu to go with it?

a tagan 900w should have rock solid rails, be future proof and handle anything you throw at it.
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I thought Tagan were not that good??

Stelly
 
Well then you thought wrong. :)

They are very good, stable and quiet psu's.

They use toppower internals (one of the best-if not the best psu makers)
 
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