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What Wattage do I need for this config?

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What is a good Power supply for this rig,

Asus 790 Motherboard AM3/DDr3
Phenom II 940 Deneb quad
6 gig ddr3 ram
DUEL GTX 260 (216) SLI
10k raptor hdd
and adequate cooling, nothing fancy just several fans

Would a 750 watt cover this without strain or is a little more horsepower required?

Thanks in advance

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I would go safe and get an 800-900 watt PSU. If the PSU's your looking at are around 300 bucks then get the Ultra 100 Watt PSU, it's modular and a great buy with plenty of room for expandibility.
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mamw93 said:
I would go safe and get an 800-900 watt PSU. If the PSU's your looking at are around 300 bucks then get the Ultra 100 Watt PSU, it's modular and a great buy with plenty of room for expandibility.


$300??? why on earth would someone pay that when Corsair makes an excellent 850w PSU that can be had for 129.99.

I see Jared beat me to it...stupid URL button sat there "loading".


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But u have SLI on an AMD motherboard??
Good point!!!

weequayx said:
What is a good Power supply for this rig,

Asus 790 Motherboard AM3/DDr3
Phenom II 940 Deneb quad
6 gig ddr3 ram
DUEL GTX 260 (216) SLI
10k raptor hdd
and adequate cooling, nothing fancy just several fans

Would a 750 watt cover this without strain or is a little more horsepower required?

Thanks in advance


Here, find out what you really need: http://www.antec.outervision.com/

weequayx said:
Yeah I have SLI on a AMD motherboard...is there something wrong with that


Well its not that its an AMD motherboard per se, but its the fact its an AMD chipset that's a problem, it is limited to Crossfire. SLI is NOT possible.

my suggestion would just be to go with ati for this build man nvidia currently has doo doo chipsets out =\ so you could crossfire two 4870s for the price of two 260 (216) and the 4870 would win in the performance and value department.

JaredAudiophileGamer said:
Eh drivers aren't so bad anymore there newfound hardware succeses more then make up for it. And i don't really think this is an appropriate thread to start with fanboyisms, just trying to help a guy choose some parts.


I could never care enough about a graphics card maker to be a fanboy. There's just too much interesting stuff out there to be into...graphics cards aren't one of them for me.

cliffro said:
Well its not that its an AMD motherboard per se, but its the fact its an AMD chipset that's a problem, it is limited to Crossfire. SLI is NOT possible.


So you are saying as long as I have a AMD 6000+ I will not be able to make use of SLI

No, What I'm saying is that, as long as you have a motherboard with an AMD chipset like the 790X/GX/FX you can't use SLI. I know of plenty of people using SLI with AMD CPU's.

but you will be limited to using a motherboard with an Nvidia Chipset. Which appears to also be limited to DDR2. IF you insist on SLI.
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