Corsair 620 w PSU capacity

[Muhammad Usman]

i am using corsair 620 w, i want o update the system as follows:-

1- Q6600
2- P5B Deluxe
3- 4 GB RAM (4 Sticks)
4- 8800 GTX OR x2900 XT (no SLI)
5- DVD WR, DVD Rom, Modem, tv tuner, pci sound card,

is this PSU is sufficient for the system mentioned above? how far i can overclock Q6600 with this PSU?

[Bluebeard]

The PSU should be a perfect fit for your needs with enough headroom for tweaking the best out of your components and even move up to SLI or Crossfire configuration later on.

In fact nobody can tell you how far the Q6600 will overclock - this all depends on the CPU itself, the board, etc. But you can be sure that the PSU won´t be the bottleneck.

[V|per]

The hx620w is a fantastic psu for your kit, powers my quad and ultra (both clocked as far as they can go) with no issues.

Infact, if money if a factor, a 520w would also be fine, but the 620w gives you more headroom for upgrades

[Muhammad Usman]

thanks Vlper,

now i will update with full confidence, however can u tell me ur room temp., my room temp. in summer b/w 35-40 and in winter 25-30 C

[V|per]

its about 20-25°c, and gets up to 35°c with the heating on, whchh is becomming more common as winter approaches.

[str]

The good thing about the Corsair PSU is it's rated to provide it's max output up to 50c whereas most other PSUs are only rated up to 25c.

[carbon8ed]

Righto, further to the OP here's the situation.

My Rig is as follows:

Q6600 running at 3.6 with 1.375 volts
GA-P35-DS4 mainboard
2 x 2 GB Crucial PC5300 RAM plus 2 x 1 GB Crucial PC5300 RAM (6GB Total)
Video - MSI 7900 GTO
Running on the 6 intel SATA ports are:
4 x 250 GB Seagate 7200.10's running in RAID 0+1 and
2 x 500 GB Seagates (storage)
Running on the Gigabyte SATA ports are:
Liteon DVD-RW (20x)
Samsung/Sony/TSSCorp 20x dual layer DVD-RW
Running on the Sil 3114 PCI SATA card are:
2 x 320 GB WD (storage)
1 x 250 GB Maxtor (storage)
1 x 200 GB Maxtor (storage) {Soon to be 500 GB WD AAAKS}

RAID discs are in a Lian Li cage with a 120 mm Nexus
Cooling is watercooling on CPU and GPU with Laing DDC2 pump (18w), Thermochill PA120.3 with 6 Nexus 120 mm fans. Hard drive in front rack cooled by another Nexus and the 9th Nexus fans sit above the I/O panel.

Case is Lian Li V2000 and also had 6 cold cathodes and and USB powered 17million types of memory card reader.

When I asked if the 620w was enough - this thing doesn't miss a beat. All the above is powered and the CPU's run 24/7 at 100% on each core crunching for SETI@home. Running Vista Home Premium 64bit and using about 27% of RAM.

CPU core seem steady 48 and 54 - depending on room temps, HDD in RAID (in Lian Li cages around 38C, whilst others in bottom segment are around 44C.

HDD are the noisiets things in the system.

oh back to the question will the 620w be powerful enough - I darn well think so! well done Corsair for a superb PSU, I shall buy as I upgrade the Hipers, Antec, SuperFlopwer slowly

[Yellowbeard]

Thanks for the feedback. That is one BEAST of a rig!