I thought this would be usefull to many currently deciding on a new PSU:
PSU Calculator
Might want to sticky this one
I thought this would be usefull to many currently deciding on a new PSU:
PSU Calculator
Might want to sticky this one
mine only comes to 297W, at 80% useage. Not bad for 2 cd drives, 2 HDs, and an X800GTO PCI-E, and a 3200 Winchester
My System: Coolermaster Centurion 5 (black) case, Intel E6750 Core2Duo, Tagan Easy-Con 530W, Asus P5B Deluxe WIFI, OCZ 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 CL 4-4-4-15 PLATINUM XTC, Samsung SpinPoint 200Gb SATA2 / 2 x Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200Gb SATA, 256Mb Sapphire ATI PCI-E X1950PRO, Creative X-Fi Xtreme 7.1, 19" Daewoo W9ZQ Black Widescreen TFT, 4Mb Virgin Cable Broadband (formerly Blueyonder) with Linksys WRT54GL Wireless-G and DD-WRT firmware.
477W for me. My 480W seems right on the money then.
LOL, my Gaming rig/Semi-server = 345W at max overclock:
A64 3000+ 2.75 Ghz 1.475V
4x1GB (used to be, now 2x1G)
6600GT
1xIDE, 4xSATA
My Server rig = 267W at minimal voltage
A64 3000+ 1.8Ghz 0.975V
4x512M
6200TC
3xIDE 4xSATA
But, I gave them a 550W and 580W PSU!!
Workstation 1: Intel i7 950 @ 3.8Ghz / X58 / 12GB DDR3-1600 / HD4870 512MB / Antec P180
Workstation 2: Intel C2Q Q9550 @ 3.6Ghz / X38 / 4GB DDR2-800 / 8400GS 512MB / Open Air
Workstation 3: Intel Xeon X3350 @ 3.2Ghz / P35 / 4GB DDR2-800 / HD4770 512MB / Shuttle SP35P2
HTPC: AMD Athlon X4 620 @ 2.6Ghz / 780G / 4GB DDR2-1000 / Antec Mini P180 White
Mobile Workstation: Intel C2D T8300 @ 2.4Ghz / GM965 / 3GB DDR2-667 / DELL Inspiron 1525 / 6+6+9 Cell Battery
Display (Monitor): DELL Ultrasharp 2709W + DELL Ultrasharp 2001FP
Display (Projector): Epson TW-3500 1080p
Speakers: Creative Megaworks THX550 5.1
Headphones: Etymotic hf2 / Ultimate Ears Triple.fi 10 Pro
Storage: 8x2TB Hitachi @ DELL PERC 6/i RAID6 / 13TB Non-RAID Across 12 HDDs
Consoles: PS3 Slim 120GB / Xbox 360 Arcade 20GB / PS2
The only thing is, I used to move a lot less stuff with a 370W PSU (Not no-name brand but I wouldn't say it is too high up the list) and I lost one HDD every month until I realize the PSU was crap. Even if it say it only require 267W and my old 370W couldn't push it properly!!
Workstation 1: Intel i7 950 @ 3.8Ghz / X58 / 12GB DDR3-1600 / HD4870 512MB / Antec P180
Workstation 2: Intel C2Q Q9550 @ 3.6Ghz / X38 / 4GB DDR2-800 / 8400GS 512MB / Open Air
Workstation 3: Intel Xeon X3350 @ 3.2Ghz / P35 / 4GB DDR2-800 / HD4770 512MB / Shuttle SP35P2
HTPC: AMD Athlon X4 620 @ 2.6Ghz / 780G / 4GB DDR2-1000 / Antec Mini P180 White
Mobile Workstation: Intel C2D T8300 @ 2.4Ghz / GM965 / 3GB DDR2-667 / DELL Inspiron 1525 / 6+6+9 Cell Battery
Display (Monitor): DELL Ultrasharp 2709W + DELL Ultrasharp 2001FP
Display (Projector): Epson TW-3500 1080p
Speakers: Creative Megaworks THX550 5.1
Headphones: Etymotic hf2 / Ultimate Ears Triple.fi 10 Pro
Storage: 8x2TB Hitachi @ DELL PERC 6/i RAID6 / 13TB Non-RAID Across 12 HDDs
Consoles: PS3 Slim 120GB / Xbox 360 Arcade 20GB / PS2
I hope that wrong
Says my current system is 473w (current PSU 400W and everything is rock stable) and when I place my 2nd 7800GT in tomorrow it will jump to 563W!!!
Main PC: Asus Rampage IV Extreme / 3960X@4.5GHz / Antec H1200 Pro / 32GB DDR3-1866 Quad Channel / Sapphire Fury X / Areca 1680 / 850W EVGA SuperNOVA Gold 2 / Corsair 600T / 2x Dell 3007 / 4 x 250GB SSD + 2 x 80GB SSD / 4 x 1TB HDD (RAID 10) / Windows 10 Pro, Yosemite & Ubuntu
HTPC: AsRock Z77 Pro 4 / 3770K@4.2GHz / 24GB / GTX 1080 / SST-LC20 / Antec TP-550 / Hisense 65k5510 4K TV / HTC Vive / 2 x 240GB SSD + 12TB HDD Space / Race Seat / Logitech G29 / Win 10 Pro
HTPC2: Asus AM1I-A / 5150 / 4GB / Corsair Force 3 240GB / Silverstone SST-ML05B + ST30SF / Samsung UE60H6200 TV / Windows 10 Pro
Spare/Loaner: Gigabyte EX58-UD5 / i950 / 12GB / HD7870 / Corsair 300R / Silverpower 700W modular
NAS 1: HP N40L / 12GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Arrays || NAS 2: Dell PowerEdge T110 II / 24GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Hybrid arrays || Network:Buffalo WZR-1166DHP w/DD-WRT + HP ProCurve 1800-24G
Laptop: Dell Precision 5510 Printer: HP CP1515n || Phone: Huawei P30 || Other: Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Pro 10.1 CM14 / Playstation 4 + G29 + 2TB Hybrid drive
374w at 100%, not bad actually was expecting more
243W... not surprising considering the sorts of components I have (e.g. Mobile Barton, 6600GT, not much else!)
"Well, there was your Uncle Tiberius who died wrapped in cabbage leaves but we assumed that was a freak accident."
389W, and giving it 650W lol, a bit overkill this time
Primary kit:
Fuji S5 Pro - Nikkor AF 50/1.8 - Nikkor AF 85/1.8
Epson RD-1
Film Kit:
Leica M3 - Summicron 50/2 DR - Zeiss ZM 25/2.8 - M-Rokkor 40/2
Olympus OM2n - Zuiko 50/2 Macro - Zuiko 50/1.4 - Zuiko 35/2.8
Quality is all that's important. Often a quality PSU will be a branded one with x00 Watts, but you are paying for the quality, not the extra wattage. PSU power has been done to death on here, but basically noone needs more than about 300W. Hexus has an article which shows the same thing.
And yet everyone still piles in with the 'I paid for 1000W so my ***** must be bigger.'
The problem with cheap power supplies is that they give the power to the wrong rails. You really need it on the 12v rails while they have pumped up 3v and 5v rails which do bugger all these days.
actually the main problem with cheap power supplies is they use cheap AC/DC converters and waste a whole bunch of power in that process alone, the other problem is with these cheap converters is that the power can fluxuate wildly..
so Whitebox 700Watt PSU is more like 350Watts. Looking for efficency in with the specs is something you want, 90%+ efficency is good, the weight of the PSU is a pretty good indicator of this.
Useful but it isn't accurate and its a bit misleading because they dont explain that it isn't total PSU wattage isn't whats important - its amps per rail, particularly the +12v rail that likely to be critical factor.
Still, anything to sell you a overpriced PSU that you don't need.
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