Wondering a good fit ps for a 900

Juntao · Apr 26, 2008

I am getting ready for a new build. Probably gonna go for an AMD setup. I do not really overclock all that much, but have done a few minor ones. Anyway I have an Antec 900. It was purchased with a rebate so it was only 50 bucks after. I know this case is common here so was wondering what would be a good power supply to fit well. I was leaning to a Corsair 750 tx or maybe a pc p&c 750. As far as otherstuff I am undecided on a mobo. I figure within the range of $140-170 for it. I was gonna get the 64 bit vista for it. I have a shiny new unused vista bus. 32 bit but I was hoping to add the 4 or 8 gigs of ram. And i was planning on two of the 500 gb seagates with the 32mb cache in raid0. Video card was debatable, I thought I might pick up a little one for now and wait for the shiny new ones of the 4800 series. Well any thoughts let me know. Oh and the processor was gonna be a phenom i suppose. I was hoping to wait till the buggers get at 3ghz stock but might be an eternity. Well thanks.

dark2099 · Apr 26, 2008

In my Antec 900 I've had a Antec TruPower Trio 650W and a Silverstone ST1000 1000W, like most cases, the PSU rarely fits perfectly, but I do believe that all cases are made to fit just about any PSU so either will probably fit just fine.

spearman914 · Apr 26, 2008

PC POWER & COOLING are the best psu's ever. If your gonna do extreme overclocking get 1K Watts or 750 Watts Silencer. If you are just using a normal gaming system get PC P&C 610 Watts.

Smartbomb · Apr 26, 2008

Wow those PSU wattages seem really high, check my specs and note the 500watt Seasonic that runs it

EDIT: Remember a Corsair 620HX will run an overclocked quad with 2 8800GTS 512'5 SLI and a bunch of room for HD's and Optical drives, Fans, you name it. I bet if you only had say 2hd's and 1 or 2 opticals you could watercool with this PSU and have power to spare.

echo75 · Apr 26, 2008

yeah most times people overrate the PSU requirements astronomically. Use any PSU calculator out there and fill in your specs (note that many of them are set to already overrate) 500- 620 watts is fine.

Actally all the system specs above this post can comfortably run on a good make 550W PSU.

If you pay your own electricity bill (like i do) you are just wasting money montly with a "boiler" of a PSU.

Smartbomb · Apr 26, 2008

echo75 said:
yeah most times people overrate the PSU requirements astronomically. Use any PSU calculator out there and fill in your specs (note that many of them are set to already overrate) 500- 620 watts is fine.

Actally all the system specs above this post can comfortably run on a good make 550W PSU.

If you pay your own electricity bill (like i do) you are just wasting money montly with a "boiler" of a PSU.

THANK-YOU!!!!! I have been so stressing to people on forums who give advice for 1000watts PSU's that you'll never need that kind of power. Unless maybe you find a way to run a marijuana grow operation off a molex connector :laugh:

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