EVGA hadron case

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
G

gonemad61

Reputable
Aug 8, 2014
268
0
4,780
Would the power supply be enough for a xeon 1230 v3 and a gtx 780 i'm planning on making a gaming pc and just want to know if the power supply is enough.
 
Solution
nukemaster
I want to ensure you have ALL the information you need.

A basic GTX 780 card takes about about 200-250 watts under demanding game loads. Nvidia actually rates the cards in that area as well.
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-780/specifications

This does not mean it will not take more under the right load(most times this is not a game load however.). Because each core is a bit different Nvidia has a power limiter in place to allow the card to clock within its set power limit. It will still have short burst faster than the power limiter can kick in.

The 600 watt recommendation is to include a full system and take into consideration some of the lower quality power supplies on the market.

The card it self has been...
Sort by date Sort by votes
nukemaster

nukemaster

Titan
Nov 23, 2004
19,626
6
74,965
I want to ensure you have ALL the information you need.

A basic GTX 780 card takes about about 200-250 watts under demanding game loads. Nvidia actually rates the cards in that area as well.
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-780/specifications

This does not mean it will not take more under the right load(most times this is not a game load however.). Because each core is a bit different Nvidia has a power limiter in place to allow the card to clock within its set power limit. It will still have short burst faster than the power limiter can kick in.

The 600 watt recommendation is to include a full system and take into consideration some of the lower quality power supplies on the market.

The card it self has been tested by Techpowerup<--link. This will give you an idea of the power consumption. You will NOT want to run too close to the power supply limit(luck for you modern systems idle very low and even less demanding games will take much less power).

I still think you can fit the rest of the system around that with ITX boards being as efficient as they tend to be.

Now clearly you can not overclock the system as far as it can go without having some extra power reserve.

I am almost sure you will see users running cards like that on overclock.net
http://www.overclock.net/t/1465848/official-evga-hadron-air-owners-club/0_40
http://www.overclock.net/t/1465848/official-evga-hadron-air-owners-club/320_40#post_22585648

YOU have to ensure your parts together do not exceed the power you have(40 x 12 = 480 watts on the 12 volt rail)

For example the recommended for a GTX 650ti system is 400(Nvidia)-430(realhardtech) watts. I have run one since release on a system with a 300 watt(264 watts @ 12 volts) power supply. The system is power friendly enough that according to my UPS it has a hard time getting to 180 watts at the wall.

All systems are different.

You can plug you system into this calculator. It will give you a higher number, but better safe than sorry.
http://extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom