I went on a bit of a rant on another thread so I decided to start my own post about this.
It's safe to assume that without water cooling, the most power hungry highest end stuff is the video card and the processor. The 4870x2 in crossfire and the fastest core i7 together use about 550-600W. All other powered items use peanuts amount of power If you just run a single video card setup with a mid-high range processor I really dont see how you can need more then 600W in your computer. So seeing people talking about picking up their latest 750W or 1000W psu to run their computer just seems outrageous to me.
This is the kind of setup that requires a minimum of 750W
intel core i7 965
4 sticks ddr3
2 4870 x2 running in crossfire
3 sata hard drives
2 dvd burners
3 usb devices
3 120mm rans
water cooling pump
and who spends $1000 on a video card setup? If you just run the 1 video card the recommended power drops down to 550W.
It's safe to assume that without water cooling, the most power hungry highest end stuff is the video card and the processor. The 4870x2 in crossfire and the fastest core i7 together use about 550-600W. All other powered items use peanuts amount of power If you just run a single video card setup with a mid-high range processor I really dont see how you can need more then 600W in your computer. So seeing people talking about picking up their latest 750W or 1000W psu to run their computer just seems outrageous to me.
This is the kind of setup that requires a minimum of 750W
intel core i7 965
4 sticks ddr3
2 4870 x2 running in crossfire
3 sata hard drives
2 dvd burners
3 usb devices
3 120mm rans
water cooling pump
and who spends $1000 on a video card setup? If you just run the 1 video card the recommended power drops down to 550W.
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