Reccomend Watts?

[Froboy7391_99]

E6400 OC to 3.0 Ghz
2 Gigs of Ram
A card eqaul or better than the 8800 GTX
A sound card
2 120 mm fans
2 sata hardrives
high end mobo
dvd burner

I calculated how much it woul need with that extreme psu calculater thing and it came out with 675 watts. Is that accurate?

 

[ADE]

My gosh that can blow a circuit....But uhh, I would always get a little bit more than the recommended AND you need to have like, 36A on I think its called the rails to feed the juice to the GPU if you want one like that.

 

[ceewi1]

I calculated how much it woul need with that extreme psu calculater thing and it came out with 675 watts. Is that accurate?

Nope. Although there's no info on power consumption for cards greater than an 8800GTX, you certainly won't draw that much with a single GTX. If SLI/Crossfire is out of the question, i'd consider a 500W unit with +12V@34A to be about the minimum, with 550W & +12V@36A+ to be preferable. I'd also avoid dual rail units in favour of PSUs with either a strong single rail, or 3+ rails.

Try this calculator, it seems to give more accurate results and more info as well:
http://web.aanet.com.au/SnooP/psucalc.php

 

[Froboy7391_99]

So if I were to get a 600 watt that should be enough plus a little extra?
Is the OCZ GameXStream 600 watt good enough.

 

[ceewi1]

So if I were to get a 600 watt that should be enough plus a little extra?
Is the OCZ GameXStream 600 watt good enough.

Yes, that PSU is fine for a single card setup.

 

[Froboy7391_99]

Good, thanks for the help.