Will this be enough?

quik1991 · 1 Sep 2009 at 20:02

If I buy this Corsair 750W Modular PSU, will it be powerful enough to last for the next few years? For example... if I decided to build a new PC in a few years, would it power something like two DX11 cards and everything else in a system?

95thrifles · 1 Sep 2009 at 20:03

mollymoo · 1 Sep 2009 at 20:03

I would say yes

Happy · 1 Sep 2009 at 20:03

I would hope so!

RJC · 1 Sep 2009 at 20:04

More than enough

Kennysevenfold · 1 Sep 2009 at 20:04

Course it will

reflux · 1 Sep 2009 at 20:05

No-one can say for certain, but I chose my Corsair 750w because I thought it would be futureproof.

quik1991 · 1 Sep 2009 at 20:06

Awesome

I was getting a bit worried that I'd need to buy a 1000W power supply right now to save me having to upgrade it in like 2 years! Thanks

K1LLSW1TCH · 1 Sep 2009 at 20:06

Lotsapower.

PermaBanned · 1 Sep 2009 at 20:34

600W would be more than enough...

ripped · 1 Sep 2009 at 23:45

It would power something similar (or the DX11 version) to the GTX 285, but it may not power 2 Dual GPU cards. It is otherwise a good PSU.

Tolmekian · 2 Sep 2009 at 00:41

Superewza said:
600W would be more than enough...

ripped said:
It would power something similar (or the DX11 version) to the GTX 285, but it may not power 2 Dual GPU cards. It is otherwise a good PSU.

I never know what psu to go for myself as it seems everyone has a different opinion, above superewza stated that 600w would be enough to run what the op stated as two dx11 cards, so crossfire/sli, whereas ripped stated that the 750w the op is intending to buy might not even be powerfull enough for crossfire/sli :confused:

ripped · 2 Sep 2009 at 00:46

Ooops I meant it will power SLi but not quad or tri SLi, unless you’re using a lower end GPU, then it should.

D D Danneh · 2 Sep 2009 at 00:46

Jason_AJB said:
I never know what psu to go for myself as it seems everyone has a different opinion, above superewza stated that 600w would be enough to run what the op stated as two dx11 cards, so crossfire/sli, whereas ripped stated that the 750w the op is intending to buy might not even be powerfull enough for crossfire/sli

I think it's just mixing up maximum/recommended/used.

I'd recommend 750W, but the system would probably only draw 600W at load. I wouldn't risk using a 600W PSU in case of a spike. Besides, the lower the power draw compared to the maximum capacity, the more efficient the PSU becomes (to a certain point anyway).

Tolmekian · 2 Sep 2009 at 00:50

D D Danneh said:
I think it's just mixing up maximum/recommended/used.

I'd recommend 750W, but the system would probably only draw 600W at load. I wouldn't risk using a 600W PSU in case of a spike. Besides, the lower the power draw compared to the maximum capacity, the more efficient the PSU becomes (to a certain point anyway).

So a good 750w psu such as antec truepower (is the one i was looking at as its around £20 cheaper on the net then the corsair hx750 and still modular) would run an i7 @ 4ghz, all the usual stuff, and a crossfire/sli setup ?

98p · 2 Sep 2009 at 00:59

Yes i think so ....

mollymoo · 2 Sep 2009 at 07:48

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-011-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

kelvin45 · 2 Sep 2009 at 07:54

If you want to check out your power needs now and in the future go to:

http://www.coolermaster.com/support/psu_calculator.php

kelvin