PROJECTED POWER CONSUMTION
GTW - 158W up to 320W
AMD 125 W
Mem 8/20 - 65W [1-98-682-709 (john)]
DVD/CD 20W - 30W
Hard Drive 15W - 30W
Average PCI Card 5W - 10W
Motherboard (w/o CPU or RAM) 50W - 150W
Case/CPU Fans 3W (ea.)
750W - 800W with everything maxed out.
Hello Everyone,
I'm building the following system and I'm trying to figure how much power I need to run it:
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P
+Graphics Card: eVGA nVidia 8800 GTX 712mb /w the cooler/sync: Arctic Accelero X8800
+ CPU: AMD Phenom II 940 BE (3.0GHz factory but will overclock to 3.7GHz when gaming) /w cooler/sync: Arctic Freezer 64 Pro
+ Memory: 4GB DDR3 Kingston 1333MHz (2 modules)
+1 Computer Fan
+ 1 SATA 1TB drive
+ 1 or 2 ATA drives
+ 1 DVD/CD Burner
+ 1 HongKong-Bought 5.25' internal card read, USB-Firewire Bay
+ 1 PCI Wifi card
+ 1 PCI modem card
I would like to spend the minimum amount on power supplies without compromising this system I've taken so much pain to research, purchase the parts and assemble. I'm currently looking at the OCZ 750W GameXStream on ebay. The 750W is relatively cheap, the 850W jump to double or 50% over the 750W cost. If I can get away with the 750W or even the 600, I would much prefer that.
As I understand it, the 750W rating is PEAK and that I shouldn't be running the computer that often anywhere near that (OCZ techie told me to run it at 80% which would leave me a continuous operating level of 600W with a 150W grace zone).
I'm less worried about normal operation and more about the 4 or 5 hours of gaming that I'd do with the graphics card not getting enough juice, the game crashing, turning sluggish or the box shutting down b/c it's overloaded.
Could anyone give me some feedback?
As to how much I need?
Thanks! Fadi
GTW - 158W up to 320W
AMD 125 W
Mem 8/20 - 65W [1-98-682-709 (john)]
DVD/CD 20W - 30W
Hard Drive 15W - 30W
Average PCI Card 5W - 10W
Motherboard (w/o CPU or RAM) 50W - 150W
Case/CPU Fans 3W (ea.)
750W - 800W with everything maxed out.
Hello Everyone,
I'm building the following system and I'm trying to figure how much power I need to run it:
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P
+Graphics Card: eVGA nVidia 8800 GTX 712mb /w the cooler/sync: Arctic Accelero X8800
+ CPU: AMD Phenom II 940 BE (3.0GHz factory but will overclock to 3.7GHz when gaming) /w cooler/sync: Arctic Freezer 64 Pro
+ Memory: 4GB DDR3 Kingston 1333MHz (2 modules)
+1 Computer Fan
+ 1 SATA 1TB drive
+ 1 or 2 ATA drives
+ 1 DVD/CD Burner
+ 1 HongKong-Bought 5.25' internal card read, USB-Firewire Bay
+ 1 PCI Wifi card
+ 1 PCI modem card
I would like to spend the minimum amount on power supplies without compromising this system I've taken so much pain to research, purchase the parts and assemble. I'm currently looking at the OCZ 750W GameXStream on ebay. The 750W is relatively cheap, the 850W jump to double or 50% over the 750W cost. If I can get away with the 750W or even the 600, I would much prefer that.
As I understand it, the 750W rating is PEAK and that I shouldn't be running the computer that often anywhere near that (OCZ techie told me to run it at 80% which would leave me a continuous operating level of 600W with a 150W grace zone).
I'm less worried about normal operation and more about the 4 or 5 hours of gaming that I'd do with the graphics card not getting enough juice, the game crashing, turning sluggish or the box shutting down b/c it's overloaded.
Could anyone give me some feedback?
As to how much I need?
Thanks! Fadi