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I was just wondering what you think a good power supply would be for this computer. I plan to do overclocking in the future with this, and various hardware additions as detailed in the list.

Q9450 with intentions to overclock
780i Motherboard
8800 GTS 640 MB with possible future SLI
4GB Corsair Dominator
1 IDE DVD RW Drive
1 Spinpoint F1 750 GB SATA HDD
1 80 GB SATA HDD
4 Case fans excluding the GTS and CPU fans

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------------------------------ Q6600@3.6ghz, GA-EX38-DS4 motherboard, 8gb 800mhz ddr2 4-3-3-12, 8800GTS(g92)@780mhz, 1TB + 1.5TB hdds, 850watt psu
Reply to dagger

Thanks
Forgot to mention

Thanks for everybodys help in advance.

I am also considering doing a tri-SLI


Message edited by SomeGenericUsername on 09-18-2008 at 02:15:45 AM
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this is good for sli
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817703005
something like this for tri sli
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817341002
or the one dagger showed u.

------------------------------ intel core 2 quad q6600 @3.2ghz msi p6n diamond (X-FI Extreme sound) 6gig of OCZ+CoRSAIR oc 900mhz Nvidia gtx 260 sli @ 730/1465/1250
Lite-On Blue-ray Western Digital 7200rpm 500gb Antec 500 Earthwatt Window vista 64-bit
Reply to invisik

You can only do tri sli with:

8800 GTX
8800 Ultra
9800 GTX(+)
GTX 260
GTX 280

You can only achieve SLI with the card that you currently have. I think you may want to step up the PSU a little more for Tri SLI as well. Probably going to have to find something with 6 PCI Express connectors.

My PSU has 4, but you could probably use Molex adapters to achieve a third set. Really depends on which card you choose, but I feel like you may need a 1000W plus PSU to power the setup

------------------------------ Intel Q6600 @ 3.0 GHz, Artic Cooling Freezer Pro 7, NZXT Apollo, OCZ GameXStream 850W PSU, 8800GTS 512 SLI, XFX 680i LT SLI, 4 GB OCZ SLI 5-5-5-15-2T, Seagate Barracuda 250 GB, WD 640 GB, Windows 7 Pro 64
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+1 for the PC Power & Cooling 750W. Since the 8800GTS 640MB only works in SLI (2 cards, not 3), that PSU is plenty. Mine still works perfectly and it's very quiet :)

There's also the Corsair 750TX, also top quality, usually cheaper.

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