I need help with the GeForce GTX 580's power supply

[exoide]

Hi there,

I wanna buy a GeForce GTX 580 because I'm doing a project to do an intensive lighting calculations using OpenCL but I'm not sure which power supply will I need.

Can anyone please tell me what's the power supply I'll need to do the intensive computations?

 

[exoide]

I wanna buy a GeForce GTX 580 because I'm doing a project to do an intensive lighting calculations using OpenCL but I'm not sure which power supply will I need.

Can you please tell me what's the power supply I'll need to do the intensive computations?

 

[WR2]

Here is what EVGA recommends for systems with it's GTX 580.
Minimum of a 600 Watt power supply.
(Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 42 Amps.)
An available 6-pin PCI-E power connector and an available 8 pin PCI-E power connector

 

[WR2]

 

[ngoy]

650W recommended for single, if you plan on SLI later then 900W

ie

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-580-review/7

unless you are using some low power cpe/mb, you could get by with less...but you never want to run something at 100%, hence the extra power they recommend.

 

[obsidian86]

whats your budget and where you buying from

 

[ko888]

For a system using a single GeForce GTX 580 graphics card NVIDIA specifies a minimum of a 600 Watt or greater power supply that has a combined +12 Volt continuous current rating of 42 Amps or greater and that has at least one 6-pin and one 8-pin PCI Express supplementary power connectors.

 

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[exoide]

Thank you all of you guys for your help. I'm on track now

 

[exoide]

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