Necessary wattage for everyday enthusiast pc?

[mrapoc]

Hey

Whats the average wattage needed for such a pc as:

q6600 overclocked

8800gt overclocked

couple of raptors, couple of big storage drives

taking into account that expansion may happen - but no to SLI/Xfire- maybe just a bigger/beastier card (single)

Looking at modular psus atm

 

[rapidman17]

Hey

Whats the average wattage needed for such a pc as:

q6600 overclocked

8800gt overclocked

couple of raptors, couple of big storage drives

taking into account that expansion may happen - but no to SLI/Xfire- maybe just a bigger/beastier card (single)

Looking at modular psus atm

dont really need that high of a wattage as you may think.... 650w will do it but look around the 850w range

 

[Mul.]

Such a system in it's current form will require require a quality 450W PSU with solid voltage rails. In the name of leaving headroom for anything that may consume rediculous amounts of power, I'd be looking at PSU's rated at 600W and higher. Make sure that any PSU that you buy is on 80PLUS' tested and approved list.

 

[PeterStoba]

A QUALITY 500-600w will be fine.

 

[JN]

As others have said I'd go for a ~600w unit. Just dont cheap out. Get something with good reviews, good effic, etc..

 

[tinytomlogan]

Corsair FTW dude if you got the 650w HX/TX youd be laughing.

 

[nepas]

either the Corsair 520 or the 650 as Tom says.I have a CM 700 which is powering my quad at 3.8,an overclocked 8800gt,2 80mm fans a pump,10 120mm fans 3hdds and a dvd writer

 

[mrapoc]

was looking at corsair hx620

that should leave room for a monster gfx card too

thanks

 

[theelusiveyoda]

you should be fine with a corsair hx series psu ,i ran a qx6800 at 4ghz, 8800gtx sli, and watercooling on a hx620 and it ran fine for the whole time i've had it

 

[Toxcity]

To tell the truth I doubt that system will draw much more than 300watts under load. I have done tests on mine at it doesn't go over 450watt.

I would go for a decent 500watt PSU for the head room.

 

[bluemarvin]

Just one word of caution - from someone whose Silverstone Strider ST75F failed to power a single GTX275! I agree with the recs. above - corsair 620 should be ample for now & future - but given my problems (which I believe stem from over-sensitive protection given that my Strider is a 750W continuous quad SLi PSU) I would tend to favour PSUs with high capacity single 12V rails rather than multiple ones (this is probably a topic for endless debate & given the support corsair units get I'm sure will be spot on - er, and having just checked corsair spec which specifically says triple rails can share load, then doubly sure OK).

 

[Rastalovich]

Such a system in it's current form will require require a quality 450W PSU with solid voltage rails. In the name of leaving headroom for anything that may consume rediculous amounts of power, I'd be looking at PSU's rated at 600W and higher. Make sure that any PSU that you buy is on 80PLUS' tested and approved list.

:worship: verbatim.

 

[mrapoc]

the 620 should be stable etc. and leave room for expansion to a dual gpu card then for example

thanks