Power supply for the core i7

[deg03]

will the thermaltake tohughpower 1500 support the core i7 CPU. i read that it only supportes dual and quad cores.

 

[mi1ez]

Erm...
What else is in the PC, besides an i7?
Graphics card? RAM? What i7 CPU? OC'd? sound card? optical drives?

 

[deg03]

gigabyte EX58 mobo, 295 gtx, 4 gig ram so far but wil upgrade to 8 gig, 1 tb hdd and 2 optical drives. Also a noctua 1366 CPU cooler.

 

[mi1ez]

1500W could power 2 of those PCs.

"The first thing that comes into our mind is… who needs a 1,500 W power supply anyway? Thousand-watt units are overkill even for the most high-end user, so in the right mind would buy a 1.5 KW unit?"
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/594

But yes, it has the right pins...

 

[deg03]

lol wel i mght be crazy then. im planning to add a lot to it in the future when i can afford more. thanks mate for your help

 

[mi1ez]

Like a second GTX295 and a hundred HDDs?!

Yeah, you're crazy. The efficiency will be useless!

 

[mike99]

4 Gb RAM? Have you done research? i7 motherboards have triple channel RAM slots. were you looking to buy 1.33 Gb RAM modules? If you are using 32bit OS, 4Gb will only use just over 3 Gb. If you use Vista 64 bit, get at least 3 x 2Gb RAM.
1500W PSU just makes you look inept, 1000 W will run i7 and 3 top Nvidia cards in SLI.

Mike.

 

[LePhuronn]

I concur with everything stated so far - 1.5KW is overkill so divert your cash to something more useful like triple-channel RAM - the money you'd save in getting a 1KW PSU from a 1.5KW PSU would easily upgrade your RAM to a 6GB triple-channel kit.