Question about the GTX260

[stalin]

Gah, I'm killing myself by constantly upping my budget on my new build, initially a £300 'quick fix' is now turning into 5 or 600 pounds.

Anyway, about the GTX260, I have two basic questions.

Firstly, what powersupply level should I be looking at?Is a 500W pushing it, or is a 600 more realistic?

I'm not a huge fan of buying expensive cases, and was wondering if the coolermaster 335 or 333 or 330 would accomodate a card that I heard is fairly large?

Thanks in advance guys

 

[Sasahara]

A quality 500w would run a GTX260, but you probably have a more efficient and cooler system with a 600w PSU.

 

[wellibob]

600 w, good quality one aswell tbh

 

[Rroff]

If its a good quality 500 it should be ok, I had no problem running 260GTX SLI on a 600 (tho I upgraded to 700 to be sure (and it matched the color scheme I was going for better )).

 

[luismenendez]

I have the coolermaster 330 and it is a good buget case but you need a second 120 mm fan for the front in take. Some models come with a coolermaster PSU 570W (not sure about the watts but i believe is over 500W) which is good enough for the GTX260