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Richard Dower wrote:
> <do_not_spam_me@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> news:1102741115.481278.311270@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> >> "Conor" <conor.turton@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >> news:MPG.1c23a3245943299e989748@news.giganews.com...
> >
> >> > What the hell you want 600W for?
> >>
> >> SLI, four Raptors in RAID 0, FX-55 O/C to 2.8Ghz, 14 fans
> >> in a case, Things like that.
> >
> > Then what the hell you want 600W for? Your system will rarely draw
> > more than 350W, each Raptor never more than 1.5A from the 12V line.
> > This isn't to say the majority of supplies labelled "350W" will be
able
> > to power it.
> > 14 fans to cool a small computer as much sense as....nothing.
> It's not small by any means,
14 fans and a size obsession go together.
> and the idea is to future proof and upgrade to the latest and
greatest.
You don't know what the future will be like in 1-2 years, and when
people previously have tried to future-proof their machines they simply
paid extra and later found it was cheaper to scrap their equipment
rather than upgrade it, a case in point being 486 motherboards with
Pentium upgrade sockets -- almost nobody could buy the upgrade Pentiums
for those sockets. Also with power supplies the industry could be a
switch to BTX style, and I suspect that desktop computers have almost
topped out in power consumption and will consume less in 1-2 years,
partially thanks to better chip processes that don't leak nearly as
much electricity.
The best 600W supply you can buy may be the 510W model from PC Power &
Cooling since they rate their supplies at 40C rather than the usual
25C, and at 25C it can put out 600W.