Hello, I am planning to upgrade my PC, (new mb, cpu ram and GFX once nvidia release next) and my 500W enermax PSU is not enough sometimes as my powes consumption peak time from time quite over 500W.
I want at least 700+W high proficiency PSU with low noise as it will run in my room 24/7 and price is on last place for me.
(modular system would be also great)
What will be in my system
mainboard (was decided for Asus P5E WS Professional but x38 chipset is problem )
Quadcore CPU (still not decided on brand as x38 can cause my raid controler not boot due errata in x38 and older chipset don't meet my requirements)
8GB DDR II
Analog/Digital capture card (not decided yet but it will wait few months)
8800GTX
Adaptec 12 port SAS RAID controler
2x 138GB SAS 15k rpm drives
10x SATA hdd various sizes
SB X-FI Fatal1ty
Thx for anny idea for what PSU i should get.
PS: bold is what i need to get others i already have
Best 700W+ PSU? Enermax Galaxy makes some fantastic ones, but I have personal experience with the PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 (see sig). It's a fantastic PSU w/ plenty of connections and it's completely silent in my case.
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Non-sense. X38 is the best overclocker out now. X48 is being delayed to who-knows-when.
ASUS P5E for DDR2. Period.
Agreed, it sucks that the X48 is being delayed for the sole reason that they want to sell all the X38's. I wish they would have just dropped the X38 price instead. : /
I would not go with 8GB of RAM. Unless you're hosting an SQL database and other server software for hundreds of users, you'll never make use of more than half of that.
Why 8 gig of ram?
64 bit Windows Vista Ultimate?
Even 8GB will not make Vista run any better.
PCPower 750 Quad Silencer and the Q6600 is what I have.
Runs XP Pro great and Vista OK
I would recommend the Corsair TX750 or the PCP&C Silencer 750. I'd probably choose the Corsair but either way you will never have to upgrade for the rest of your system's life.
I would recommend the Corsair TX750 or the PCP&C Silencer 750. I'd probably choose the Corsair but either way you will never have to upgrade for the rest of your system's life.
The Corsair was on sale for $119 at BUY.com last I looked.
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If its good in theory but not in practice,
its not good theory.
I'm with chedrz on the Thermaltake Toughpower 700wt. After reading reviews of the PC P&C 750wt Silencer and the TT Toughpower 750wt at Jonnyguru, I chose the TT Toughower. I like the idea of a quieter fan and when it came to performance, Jonny rated the Toughpower a full point better. He downgraded the Toughpower on its looks, but since I don't ever look at a PSU unless I'm cleaning out the case, I could care less about its looks. This isn't to say that the PC P&C is bad, only that for my useage, I thought the Toughpower was better.
And yes, now that I've used a modular PSU, I like the idea of only using the cables you need much better than having unused cables twisted up inside the case doing nothing but making a mess and possibly restricting airflow.
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Evil lurks in the databanks as it lurked in the streets of yesteryear. But it was never the streets that were evil.
I recently bought the Thermaltake 700w modular, it has a nice big fan, which is barely audible in a quiet room.
I had narrowed my choices to two PSU at the time, the SeaSonic, and the Thermaltake, and the Thermatake happened to be on sale at the time so i bought it, and it turned out to be a good decision i am very happy with it.
I recommend it, two thumbs up
Also for the mobo go with the Asus p5e3 deluxe wifi@ap, and get just 4GB of OCZ Platinum DDR3 pc10666, Newegg is out of stock atm so goto atacom and get it, here is the link http://atacom.com/program/print_ht [...] SER_ID=www
As far as the raid controller goes, dump it and buy two or three 1TB drives depending on what RAID mode you are using to replace the older drives, and use the onboard RAID, and sell your smaller SATA drives on ebay.
Enjoy.
Message edited by Xeenrecoil on 01-25-2008 at 09:45:39 PM
Newegg has a sale on Corsair XMS2 DDR-800 2GB set for $24 USD and free shipping.
They also have the PC Power & Cooling 610 (constant load rated 49Amps on 12Volt sngl rail) for $109 USD and free shipping.
I also ran across an ATI HD 3870 on another site shipped for $232 USD.
Fry's has walk in prices for Seagate 7200.11/WD/Maxtor 500GB HD's on sale each month for $89 USD.
Message edited by ZOldDude on 01-25-2008 at 10:29:43 PM
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*While we crash and burn, small, low tech, agrarian societies such as the Hmong in the mountains of Laos will continue on without so much as blinking an eye.*
My opinion is you cant go wrong with either company. It's all a matter of preference. the only way you could go wrong is el'cheapo parts or buying from a shady reseller. My advice as always-go with newegg and you'll never be sorry.
Hello, I am planning to upgrade my PC, (new mb, cpu ram and GFX once nvidia release next) and my 500W enermax PSU is not enough sometimes as my powes consumption peak time from time quite over 500W.
I want at least 700+W high proficiency PSU with low noise as it will run in my room 24/7 and price is on last place for me.
(modular system would be also great)
What will be in my system
mainboard (was decided for Asus P5E WS Professional but x38 chipset is problem )
Quadcore CPU (still not decided on brand as x38 can cause my raid controler not boot due errata in x38 and older chipset don't meet my requirements)
8GB DDR II
Analog/Digital capture card (not decided yet but it will wait few months)
8800GTX
Adaptec 12 port SAS RAID controler
2x 138GB SAS 15k rpm drives
10x SATA hdd various sizes
SB X-FI Fatal1ty
Thx for anny idea for what PSU i should get.
PS: bold is what i need to get others i already have
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