How big a PSU and why a Corsair one?

[carbon8ed]

OK 620w PSU is in. Seemed to detects the various drives quicker. had some major problems with the extra SATA drive - not sure whether drive is dead or whether its a cable or power thing.

Had to restore to previous settings that worked and then it took an hour for the RAID check to complete. Too tired to check after that so will try tonite.

On the plus it's very quiet, lots of connectors, although I would prefer the hiper cabling where you add things. I tried to spread everything round so fingers crossed.

With SETI down, the PC's are running ight at the minute anyway.

Watch this space

[chuckskull]

If it's all bar one drive working fine I'd put money on the drive. Pretty simple test is remove one other drive and use it's power cable or try another connector.

[Mossy]

'sadbuny'? - irony, the gift that just keeps giving...Ed.

Slightly rude on a Corsair support forum to suggest a competitor especially when it is not as good

[Mithrandir]

Some interesting info here.

I have a question though:
How can I tell if my PSU 'ripples' a lot? (I take it is based on the fluctuation of the 3v, 5v, 12v, etc

[chuckskull]

Some interesting info here.

I have a question though:
How can I tell if my PSU 'ripples' a lot? (I take it is based on the fluctuation of the 3v, 5v, 12v, etc

Without specialist equipment, you cant basically. http://www.jonnyguru.com/ includes ripple testing at various different voltages in his reviews.

[Mithrandir]

Thanks chuckskull.

[carbon8ed]

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

My Rig is as follows:

Q6600 running at 3.6 with 1.425 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 dan wekk think so! well done Corsair for a superb PSU, I shall buy as I upgrade the Hipers, Antec, SuperFlopwer slowly

[Gobbob]

I started with dual socket A in an Iwill MPX2 powerd by a 550w Q-Tec

-Gobbob