what watt psu?

ineed2upgrade · 5 Apr 2007 at 01:50

what wattage psu would i need for:

E6600
8800 gpu
2 raptors
1 500gb drive
dvdrw
dvd rom
x-fi card
armor lcs case
various fans ect

would 650w be sufficient??

xirokx · 5 Apr 2007 at 02:08

try this

http://www.journeysystems.com/?powercalc

C64 · 5 Apr 2007 at 02:53

450 watts + but you need to find a psu with enough power on the 12v
for that card i'd imagine 26a on the 12v +.
I'd recommend the corsair range 520w if you dont plan on sli and 620w if you do.
They are sublime power supplies great package 5 year warrantys too which
is very reassuring.Hopefully the new dx10 cards aren't going to be so power hungry as these 8800 monsters.

ineed2upgrade · 5 Apr 2007 at 03:21

the power calculator is a bit out of date with respect to cpu/gpu's

was looking at an enermax liberty 650w psu so am assuming that would be sufficient?

C64 · 5 Apr 2007 at 04:59

Sure it would nice choice.

Energize · 5 Apr 2007 at 05:03

http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

This is more updated.

Billius · 5 Apr 2007 at 08:22

Cripes - I put in my future spec for my high end quad core dual 8800gtx rig and it came to 1106W without overclocking!

semi-pro waster · 5 Apr 2007 at 08:30

Billius said:
Cripes - I put in my future spec for my high end quad core dual 8800gtx rig and it came to 1106W without overclocking!

I don't know what you intend to put into the PC but given that Corsair have previously demonstrated a PC using their HX 620w which was quad-core, SLi'd 8800 series cards, watercooling, a few hard drives etc without breaking a sweat then I rather suspect that is fairly over-estimated.

ineed2upgrade · 5 Apr 2007 at 10:44

put the rough spec im after in to the calculater and it comes out at 511w so seems a 650w psu should be sufficent

thanks for the info guys