Is a Seasonic Platinum 1000 Watt enough?

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claudiusixi

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So I'm nearing the completion of my rig / upgrade but I came to question if the power supply is enough to power it all, I'm waiting on a water block so I think I can wait to get a second power supply if need be so here is the hardware, honestly I believe its enough but I would like one second opinions

Rampage IV Extreme
I7-3930k
32GB 1866Mhz
2 x R9-290
10 x 3.5 3TB Hard Drives
7 x 2.5 256GB Solid State Drives
13 x 120mm PWM Fans
Creative ZxR
LSI 9271-8I
Intel Expander
AC Wireless Card

Swiftech 655 Pump
4 x Red LEDs
2 x Red Cathodes
1 x 1 Meter LED Strip

Thanks for reading and thanks to those who post a response, all help is appreciated :)
 
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So a single 1250W would be about right and give you some room for overclocking.
2 power supplies is always an option though if you need moar power!!
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No. Not nearly enough!

You're going to want to look into one of these bad boys:

http://www.google.com/shopping/suppliers/product/200KW-marine-generator-with-CCS-approved/07483d3c903357c7?ei=PtCzUpDWJ8TKmAfiRQ&q=marine+diesel+generator&ved=0CA4Q7RswAA

and when you buy it, you'll thank America you did.
 
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it should be more than enough. 2x290 takes up about 540W at peak load and i7 takes about 130W at peak load so totaling 670W for the main to components, leaving a fairly large 330W headroom. so your good to go even if you plan to OC.

but just outta curiosity, why would you need 13 case fans and 7 256 GB SSD's and 10 3TB HDD's?
 
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fixer762

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I would say go for more power or 2 power supplies. something like a 1250W for the system and a few of the drives. And a secondary power supply of about 550W for the water cooling stuff and the rest of the hard drives.
I would highly suggest you put all of those parts inside a Case Labs case, it will fit all that stuff and more. http://www.caselabs-store.com/pc-cases/
Case Labs cases are 100% aluminum and designed with water cooling in mind and the option to run 2 power supplies. But Case Labs cases are a tad expensive. The bright side is you probably wouldn't need a new case for a very long time.

 
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claudiusixi

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The system is mostly a testing lab that I use for learning on, the hard drives are part of raid 10, raid 1 and 2 personal HDDs, as for the ssds, 2 sets of raid 0 and use them to host the virtual my machines on, yes I know it's overkill now but before the virtual machines used to be slow and I was tried of the slow speed, and the case fans are for keeping everything cool, since the video cards and CPU are liquid cooledcooled, as for the power that you calculated, how did you come up with that cause I used the ASUS power calculator and it recommended 1600 Watts, sounds ridiculous to me but I'm not a power guy, however I have heard that those calculators tend to exaggerate

fixer762

I was thinking of that, but how exactly do you get to power supplies to start up at the same time, is there some sort of bridge for 2 PSU? And believe or not I have this all in a Corsair Air 540, the caselabs cases looked awesome but they are ridiculously expensive maybe because of the aluminum they use but yeah the price REALLY turned me off of those cases
 
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fixer762

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Here you go a dual power supply adapter cable.
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/8787/cab-168/Single_Braid_Sleeved_Lian-Li_Dual_Power_Supply_Adapter_Cable.html

If you don't like the case lab case style cases, take a look at Mountain Mods, http://www.mountainmods.com/
they are still kinda spendy, but can natively hold 2 power supplies and more of a cube like the Corsair Air 540.

If none of those Mountain Mods cases look good, I think Silverstone has some cases along with others case makers that natively support 2 PSUs and water cooling.
I know price might turn you off, but you get what you pay for in Case Labs from the reviews I have seen.

here is a really nice Case Labs build.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNML73arTKI&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLbF2MPzbagfwSP58cI9GiCoouH5qBMzsp

 
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Based on the components you've listed:

Rampage IV Extreme 60 W
I7-3930k 105 W
32GB 1866Mhz 12 W
2 x R9-290 478 W
10 x 3.5 3TB Hard Drives 98 W
7 x 2.5 256GB Solid State Drives 3 W
13 x 120mm PWM Fans 58 W
Creative ZxR 14 W
LSI 9271-8I 31 W
Intel Expander 14 W
AC Wireless Card 14 W

Swiftech 655 Pump 24 W
4 x Red LEDs 12 W
2 x Red Cathodes 5 W
1 x 1 Meter LED Strip 13 W

Total: 941 W

Any overclocking will of course increase the power consumption further.
 
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So a single 1250W would be about right and give you some room for overclocking.
2 power supplies is always an option though if you need moar power!!
 
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claudiusixi

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Okay so I looked up that PSU bridge, now I don't believe that the link has been updated but that is absolutely ridiculous, $80 for a cable to bridge 2 psus?!?!?!?!

And if 941 Watts is what the system would draw than that's above the 89% efficiency of the seasonic platinum at 100% load, so I'm noticing a trend of getting a second smaller PSU...
 
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Sorry about the $80 cable, I just linked a cable that looked like it would work.
Here is a cheaper one for $20
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/5637/cpa-167/Lian_Li_Dual_Power_Supply_Adapter_Cable.html
 
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No, the 941w ko888 listed for you are 941w the components need, the efficiency aspect is how much AC
power the PSU pulls from the power grid (wall socket) to deliver 941w of DC power to your components.

So, basically you want to consider something more than 1kw to allow for headroom & OC.

Consider any of these if you want to go with a single PSU:

http://pcpartpicker.com/mr/superbiiz/antec-power-supply-hcp1200
http://pcpartpicker.com/mr/superbiiz/seasonic-power-supply-x1250

http://pcpartpicker.com/mr/superbiiz/xfx-power-supply-p11250befx
http://pcpartpicker.com/mr/tigerdirect/corsair-power-supply-cmpsu1200ax

http://pcpartpicker.com/mr/superbiiz/antec-power-supply-hcp1300platinum

http://pcpartpicker.com/mr/superbiiz/enermax-power-supply-emr1350ewt

All under $300 USD
 
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