need a psu recomendation

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Kaitlin Kaschak459

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ok heres my current rig minus a power supply asus mobo amd phenom 1 x4 9600 cpu quad core 4 1 gig sticks of ddr2 ram 1 TB sats hard drive 1 dvd rom sata 2 led fanes and an XFX HD 4890 pcie gpu card now since i plan on doing crossfire in the future how many 12 volt rails should my new power supply have and how many amps should there be on each rail to power my rig i also plan to overclock my cpu a little
 
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Do a complete system upgrade. Your CPU won't handle a Crossfire configuration, since it is a first generation Phenom and it was terrible.

Secondly, you have 4GB of DDR2. DDR2 is now old school memory and is too slow for today's customer's needs.

Finally, your GPU isn't as great as it once was and Crossfiring won't do it any good either. They were known to overheat in Crossfire, due to the fact that there was little to no room for air to get to the primary card to keep cool.

Keep both the hard drive and the DVD drive, they're still good for today's standards.

This is a system upgrade I would say perform twice as good and beats 2 HD 4890s in Crossire with one card, uses less energy and will keep your system valid for another 3 years -

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1Gmux

Although some of the stuff maybe a bit expensive, it is worth every penny.

Hope this helps.
 
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