Will 500w be enough??

wolvotim

wolvotim

wolvotim

Associate
Joined
16 Oct 2004
Posts
734
ive got a enermax liberty 500W. will it be ok for this lot??

Its gona be joining a pioneer 111 writer, 120gb IDE drive and a floppy inside a coolermaster mystique case that has two fans.

bits.JPG
 
Will it be enough? Of course, more than enough. What is it with people thinking they need a powerstation to run a PC these days.
 
Yeah thats enough, but imo its always good to have slightly more then enough, especially when its coming to your psu, its running your system, you want a quality psu.
 
Yeah... 500W will be more than enough.

Just a suggestion... but it might be worth your while spending the extra £50 to get an 8800GTS over the X1950XTX... I upgraded from an X1900XTX to an 8800GTX and it was worth every penny
 
easy enough unless you decide to overclock everything 100%

(which i doubt anything can stand a 100% overclock or it would pop unless on liquid nitrogen or somthing lol)
 
tastyweat said:
Yeah... 500W will be more than enough.

Just a suggestion... but it might be worth your while spending the extra £50 to get an 8800GTS over the X1950XTX... I upgraded from an X1900XTX to an 8800GTX and it was worth every penny
Click to expand...


would the PSU be able to handle that card with eveything else i will have loaded onto it coz on the OCUK site they recommend a 600w

OCUK said:
Note: These cards require PCI-E x16 slots, they will not function in a x8 slot so for SLi you need dual x16 mainboard. Finally 500W minimum for PSU and 600W+ is recommended.
Click to expand...

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-095-LT
 
You have an Enermax PSU and you are wondering??? :D
It is my favourite choise!
I also have an old fashion Enermax (almost 3 years old) and it is 465 Watts.
It supplies an AMD SanDiego 3700+ (o/c at 3GHz) many fans, two hard disks, DVDROM, DVDRW etc....
Rails stable as a rock! :)
 
wolvotim said:
would the PSU be able to handle that card with eveything else i will have loaded onto it coz on the OCUK site they recommend a 600w



http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-095-LT
Click to expand...


The power consumption of the 8800GTS is actually less than the X1950XTX - the GTX is of course more... trying to remember which review site tested the power consumption

For what your powering... 500W will be plenty that's for sure... with that setup you'd still meet minimum power requirements for the 8800gtx... and like i said - gts eats even less power than x1950xtx

let's look for that site...
 
wolvotim said:
this it??

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2870&p=21
Click to expand...


Not the exact review I was after - but shows similar info... quote:

anandtech said:
Armed with four PCIe power connectors, the 1kW unit handled the incredible load placed on it by two 8800 GTX cards without a problem. Total system power consumption when running our benchmarks, at times, peaked at over 520W with the SLI setup.
Click to expand...

So if a setup with SLIed 8800GTXs peaks at 520W... you're sound with a single card :D
 
nice one.

Would you say the gigabyte mobo is well suited to the 8800?? I've also been looking at the asus P5W DH deluxe would this be any better suited to this card??
 
if your going 8800 gtx wolvotim make sure your case as the space for it. as there longer than the 1950xtx

GTX = 27.5cm to 28cm
GTS = 24cm
 
Ive got a coolermaster mystique. What you recon?? It’s not the biggest case in the world. Might have to get my tape measure in there

i'll probably go for the GTS as the GTX is out of my price range
 
Just had a ruler in there and the GTS should “just” fit with about 2cm to spare. There’s about 26-27cm between the back of my gfx card to the back of the hdd bays
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom