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700w toughtpower enought?

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October 9, 2008 10:24:19 PM

I have Thermaltake Thoughtpower 700W, i want to know if it will power:

q6600 raised to 4000 max 1.45V (3600 1.43 optimal),
2 4850 crossfire OC 700+/1200+ (water cooled),2 HDD sata in raid 0 + raptor for the OS.

8 fans 120MM normal, 2 120MM LED,2 92MM normal,1 250MM (tacens 0.4A/4.8W), Pump Laieng 12v 23W, 4 cathodes, 1 frontal led pannel with fan speed regulator, 1 temp probe external.

Just for general info, in the thermaltake calculator i get like 667W consume considerating 15% agging, and personal calculations drop it even more, but id like to know from someone who is more expirienced than me.

here is link for my PSU:

http://www.thermaltake.com/product/Power/ToughPower/W01...

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October 9, 2008 10:35:46 PM

oh excues me i almost forgot, 1 dvd burner 1 dvd reader and a good bunch of USBs (like 8), including a floppy mayb with card reader.
October 9, 2008 10:55:53 PM

The power supply will handle that just fine. Can I ask why 8 120MM fans? Thats quite alot. However, The power supply will be running under a pretty good load, and may get loud.
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October 9, 2008 11:05:40 PM

In my opinion NO!

The Thermaltake Thoughtpower 700W will power the Q6600 OC, 2 x 4850 OC, 3 Hard drives.

When you add on all the other stuff, 8 fans, a coolant pump, a fan regulator I dont think so.

By the way I just went to the Corsair sight and their PSU calculator came up with 750w for the CPU, 2 x 4850 and 3 hard drives. Not including all the other add-ons you mentioned.

October 9, 2008 11:13:12 PM

yes sure 8 120 MM fans for 3 radiators (1 in frontal 2x120MM from kandalf LCS case"1 more there but its LED", 2 in bottom of case connected to a radiator in form of intake into the case 2x120, one outside the case at the back 2x120MM fans and finally 2 that will be from this:

http://www.tienda-traxtore.com/tienda/index.php?page=pp...

Reason for so many fans and radiators is becouse i want to buy Low noise fans, meaning low CFM, therefore need more of them to performe at same performace as loud fans (apart from the PSU the total dB calculated by me wont reach 19 dB even on very high load), and water cooling will be on CPU,NB,both GPUS,SB, and eventually on RAM and MOSFET.

However i will test the pump to see if it can handle that much, if not ram+mosfet will be AIR cooled and i quit 1 radiator probably (the one outside i bet).

October 9, 2008 11:18:24 PM

I tirted that calculator and INTEL 2 QUAD extreme overclock,2 hd 4850 overclocekd and 3 HDD came up for me with recomeding a 620W PSU-750W PSU, mayb im not looking the same place as you, could u send me direct link to check it out?
October 9, 2008 11:41:25 PM

http://www.corsairmemory.com/psufinder/default.aspx

I think you found the right place.

You are going to have quite a surge. Multiply the equipment/appliance WATTS x 3 = PEAK/SURGE WATTS (approximate).
I know your coolant pump is rated at 23 watts, but with the set up you are planning?
You could have a 100 watt surge to get the coolant flowing.
October 10, 2008 12:00:21 AM

What worries me more is that im getting a 24.4A need in the 1 rail of 12V, but i dont know if thats just wrong or something.

I used this calculator, and looks quite solid:

http://web.aanet.com.au/SnooP/psucalc.php

Hmm, about the watt surge.. i dont know, anywhere i can inform myself more about that topic? im not really that good in calculating thse numbers, tahts why i ask (hell, if i knoew how to manually do the calculations id do, but i dont know exactly how much A or W consumes each part, nor if they are 12v 3v etc).
October 10, 2008 12:06:01 AM

however i think it must be wrong, since i calcualted my current settings and i got a 21.4A needs in the main 12v rail... not sure what to think here
October 10, 2008 12:24:21 AM

oh
also i didnt mention that on my current setting:

CPU: q6600 2934Mhz
Ram: 2 DDR 800Mhz 1.8V
GPU: 2 4850 in crossfire no oc, stock cooling
FANS: 2x120MM fans, 2x120MM LED fans, 2x92MM fans, 1x250MM fan, 1 Turbine type fan over NB heatpipe, 1 small 3 color LED fan on SB.
PUMP:p 500 (thermaltake) with only CPU cooling
HDD: 1 HDD sata samsung spinpoint 500GB 7.200 RPM
Optical Drives: 1 DVD Reader

With those the Power supply is imposible to hear unless u get your ear to touch the metal out take of the case (and there are no loud parts in the comp at all, as i said, barely 19 db).
October 10, 2008 12:29:18 AM

Try Google CALCULATE APPROXIMATE STARTUP LOAD (PEAK/SURGE WATTS)

I would rather have MORE than enough power vs. having to run at peak all the time.
October 10, 2008 12:42:45 AM

I have been powering the system in my configuration with a 700 watt Thermalake for about a year now. I have more than twenty fans including eleven 120mm and a memory cooler 3 x 40mm fan in this case.

http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/product/Chassis/fulltower...

I also have printers, external HD's and satellite television. I can overclock all I want to without any 'power' issue after running the unit close to 24/7 for the past year..
October 10, 2008 1:17:09 AM

yeah i understand what u mean knotknut, but according to my calculations (only in Watts i mean) ill be using close to 600, while calculators gave me from 591W (0% agging, i bought the PSU 1 month ago) till 667W with a 90% CPU use and 85% system load, so id rather not to rebuy a new PSU just yet, unless it would risk the components from the computer itself, or run loud on low system load.

And most of those calculators are really safe, like counting around 30W for a sata HDD on 90% load system while most new HDDs eat around 10W on load
October 11, 2008 10:55:20 PM

anyone else got any opinions?
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