Psu for crossfire and core i7

Binge · Feb 19, 2009

FordGT90Concept said:
It's not temporary load that matters, it is long term. A lot of those calculators overestimate in order to account for the degradation of the power supply in 1-3 years. If you load a 620w PSU with 680w PSU, it isn't very likely to last much more than a month.

Drawing more than the specified wattage for any PSU for any ammount of time is likely to kill it, and how quickly that happens is not always the same. I've seen people's PSUs light up on fire from handling too much. It's a horror story, but that kind of thing can happen with power supplies.

Solaris17 · Feb 19, 2009

hat said:
you should just hook your house up to a nuclear reactor

why? i tap right off the cities power grid theirs a transformer right outside of my house like i use wall sockets. plz

n-ster · Feb 19, 2009

Solaris17 said:
why? i tap right off the cities power grid theirs a transformer right outside of my house like i use wall sockets. plz

LOLLLLLLLLLLL! what else que we expect from Solaris? :rolleyes:

Sasqui · Feb 19, 2009

http://www.enermaxusa.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_60&products_id=179

Friend has the 950w version and loves it, albeit pricey.

Check out the stats and features, there's not much out there like it.

Binge · Feb 19, 2009

or you could just get the 1050W which is ON SALE $280.99 W/FREE SHIPPING

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817194039

The Haunted · Feb 19, 2009

Im from quebec city

Got it from ncix with a price match down to 262$

n-ster · Feb 19, 2009

nice... know where did the price match come from? btw sry that you having bad weather

saw it on TV this morning... it becomes GREEN when the clouds fly over quebec...

EDIT: at that price, wouldn't this be better?

The Haunted · Feb 19, 2009

Got the price from direct canada.
At 262$ i prefer the enermax

n-ster · Feb 19, 2009

isn't it 277$ at direct canada?

The Haunted · Feb 19, 2009

n-ster said:
isn't it 277$ at direct canada?

I took the 950watt.

n-ster · Feb 19, 2009

oh woops

didn't read right... Hey where did you buy your i7 from?

DRDNA · Feb 19, 2009

Good choice! With a high quality PSU I say go with high wattage too ...I would never build any more of my rigs with less than a 1000watt...w/CF

n-ster · Feb 19, 2009

You don't NEED 1000W AT ALL...It'll just last you longer, and most likely, the 1000w is built better

DRDNA · Feb 19, 2009

n-ster said:
You don't NEED 1000W AT ALL...It'll just last you longer, and most likely, the 1000w is built better

lol maybe but my gut makes me go high quality and high wattage ....but I also have laying around (x1800XTX master and slave and X1950XTX master and slave a HD 4870X2 another on the way soon....pelts....run a minimum of 4 harddrives if not more...always run everything overclocked -ram-CPU-gpu-gpu ram -FSB -ME-!) so if I could get a 2000watt I would as long as it was made by a high quality company and price is good....Needs well they are kind of like opinions and we all have one :toast:

As long as you have adequate then all is well.

PS if I could get a posi PSU with a blower I would...lol

spearman914 · Feb 19, 2009

Core i7 = 120W
Crossfire 4870's = 448W
Other HD, RAM, Fans etc takes up the rest.
To sum it up it takes up around 600W so ocing is very limited and performance will short out a little

DRDNA · Feb 19, 2009

spearman914 said:
Core i7 = 120W
Crossfire 4870's = 448W
Other HD, RAM, Fans etc takes up the rest.
To sum it up it takes up around 600W so ocing is very limited and performance will short out a little

I think either Bing or Fit or maybe it was CP said an overclock like my sig on CPU is more like 350watts ..if I remember correctly ..I have not tested wattage yet my self though.

Binge · Feb 19, 2009

spearman914 said:
Core i7 = 120W
Crossfire 4870's = 448W
Other HD, RAM, Fans etc takes up the rest.
To sum it up it takes up around 600W so ocing is very limited and performance will short out a little

Spearman! I hate when you do this! The i7 does not take 120W, that's how much heat it dissapates @stock... Thermal wattage does not equal power draw.

DRDNA said:
I think either Bing or Fit or maybe it was CP said an overclock like my sig on CPU is more like 350watts ..if I remember correctly ..I have not tested wattage yet my self though.

Fit and I have both done that and for a 1.4v 4.0-4.2ghz OC it's 300-315W

DRDNA · Feb 19, 2009

Binge said:
Fit and I have both done that and for a 1.4v 4.0-4.2ghz OC it's 300-315W

I am already looking for a bigger PSU ... :roll:

I mean for real I am ....oh well when you see fourth of july flying out the back of your rig and your running like mad for power cord man youll wish dearly for a high quality and high wattage PSU ...but I am an extreamist so with that being said lets get some clocking done. :roll:

n-ster · Feb 19, 2009

DRDNA said:
I am already looking for a bigger PSU ... I mean for real I am ....oh well when you see fourth of july flying out the back of your rig and your running like a mad for power cord man youll wish dearly for a high quality and high wattage PSU ...but I am an extreamist so with that being said lets get some clocking done.

Can I call you a wattage addict? btw, how much power does th i7 at stock draw

J-Man · Feb 19, 2009

Who uses PSU calculators... Not me.

Binge · Feb 19, 2009

n-ster said:
Can I call you a wattage addict? btw, how much power does th i7 at stock draw

130W under full load

n-ster · Feb 19, 2009

WOW???????????

FordGT90Concept · Feb 20, 2009

The Enermax Revolution 85+ 850w arrived today. It clearly has excellent build quality. The only things I don't like about it is the inability to detach two of the 8-pin GPU power cables and the SATA/IDE cables are pretty short. I think the PSU would work best mounted at the bottom of a case (unless you manage to turn all the hard drives upside down).

I took a pic of it installed and running:
http://img.techpowerup.org/090219/Inside.jpg

The drive not mounted in the HDD cage is powered by a very short molex -> twin SATA adapter. The top three HDDs in the cage are powered by a single cable (if I plugged in the fourth, the cable would not reach the power supply). The last two are plugged into a separate SATA cable. By not having two plugged in to HDDs, it is long enough to reach the power supply. Overall, I like the cables better than what the Liberty had because Liberty had molex, SATA, molex, SATA. These have either all molex, all SATA, or molex + one FDD.

JrRacinFan · Feb 20, 2009

@ n-ster

Yeah but check this out
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817194041

This is the psu Ford is running^^.

Sasqui · Feb 20, 2009

FordGT90Concept said:
The Enermax Revolution 85+ 850w arrived today. It clearly has excellent build quality. The only things I don't like about it is the inability to detach two of the 8-pin GPU power cables and the SATA/IDE cables are pretty short. I think the PSU would work best mounted at the bottom of a case (unless you manage to turn all the hard drives upside down).

I took a pic of it installed and running:
http://img.techpowerup.org/090219/Inside.jpg

The drive not mounted in the HDD cage is powered by a very short molex -> twin SATA adapter. The top three HDDs in the cage are powered by a single cable (if I plugged in the fourth, the cable would not reach the power supply). The last two are plugged into a separate single cable. By not having two plugged in to HDDs, it is long enough to reach the power supply. Overall, I like the cables better than the Liberty had because Liberty had molex, SATA, molex, SATA. These have either all molex, all SATA, or molex + one FDD.

Damn that's one beautiful PSU. Nice rig too

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Processor	i5 3570K
Motherboard	Z77 ASRock
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Psu for crossfire and core i7

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