Good enough?

skidro892007

skidro892007

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i am looking at the Hiper 580w modular PSU. I like the PSU a lot, but I'm not sure it will power my system. I need to keep it around 100 bucks to, for my budget(i'm a college student... i have no money...)

Right now my build consists of:
MSI P6N mobo
EVGA 8800gts 320mb VGA
160 IDE hdd
250 SATA hdd
Dvd Burner
Combo dvd rom/cd burner
e6420 CPU
2 gig corsair memory

Do you think the Hiper PSU will power all of that? From the reviews it's gotten, it looks like it will, but I just want some more opinions.
 
I have the 530 hiper version and its realy nice - it bursts qulaity, feels real wellm built looks great and has modualr design and comes in a toolbox which is handy
 
The important thing is not the rated wattage output (and the Hiper is somewhat overrated in that area anyway), but the amperage on the +12V rails. The Corsair is capable of putting out about 1/3 more usable power (power on the +12V rails) than the Hiper.

And yes, a quality 520W PSU is more than sufficient. The official recommendation for those cards is only 400W w/ +12V@26A.
 
konstruct said:
a corsair 620 is not even certified to run 8800 GTS in SLI

http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_build_psu.html



but the antec 650 is :)
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From a Corsair tech:
nVidia has very specific requirements for SLI certification. They require a higher OCP cutoff than we have advertised. We advertise an 18A cutoff for OCP on the +12V rails because at the time we developed the spec, that was the ATX requirement. However, our power supply does not actually hit the OCP point at 18A, because we made the "rails" combinable so that higher-end video cards would work fine with it.
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Despite the lack of certification the Corsair 620W will run SLI'd 8800GTSs without any problems.
 
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