Highland3r, BBQ of Doom, I need your help -->

yeh... I'm a graduate management consultant so money...its ok, but I've saved, and my plan is, 2-3 years without upgrading, should be a goodun, and 700watts lets me OC without pushing the psu too much, which I like the sound of.

The private company is a side project of sorts really.

 

very good. have you read the jonnyguru's reviews?

 

Okay, sorry I wasn't here, I was away.

-M12 700 = win except the small 60mm fan which starts going when you have a big load
-Extreme outervision calculator = inaccurate (Speced 500+w for my pc, which draws 119 from the wall)
-HX 620 is also good to go
-Silverstone makes good psu's, except the Decathlon 750 from what I can see so far. All the other ones look very promising.
-OCZ GXS / FSP Epsilon has excess ripple at high loads. Out of spec.
-Electricity bill will NOT increase from a bigger psu. Efficiency. A 300w load on a 500w psu, or a 300w load on a 10,000w psu, will not result in a bigger electricity bill, provided that they're higher efficiency.
-Coolermaster Green 850 is an Enhance 850w psu, and Enhance isn't exactly steller at the high end.

 

So does it under- or overestimate?

 

way overestimate. I wouldn't suggest it.

 

Cheers bbq

 

A 500W psu with a beefy +12v rail(s) should be plenty for that system.

It seems a misunderstanding that any form of overclocking makes the power usage go up a considerable amount. The fact is it doesn't, unless you increase the voltages a lot. Back in the days of the AthlonXPs when we took our processors that had a stock voltage of 1.6v up to 2.0v, there would be a considerable increase in heat and power usage. Its different now though, because most people are only increasing their CPU voltage 0.1v or 0.2v over stock. The increase in pure mhz doesn't make for much more power usage either.

 

im confused...are you bashing the fact that someone is asking for advice like many others do on a forum designed for just this type of thing? or are you saying that people with 3 grand to spend on a pc are idiots (from ur next post)? i love forum geezers like you...been on here so long and seen 100 threads with the same questions that you forget that a)times change and new products come out every 3-6 months and b)when people are spending money, they want reassurance that they havent missed something obvious (and whatever other reasons people may have) and that is exactly what a site like this is intended for. i dont see many of your posts anymore...but the few that i have seen say pretty much the same thing...get over it...

 

actually you should easily be able to run that off the 620

I took my HX620 out of my media box and stuck it in the CAD machine (see sig) and it worked fine, no bad things happened at all.

so save the money!! (then you can get another GTX sooner )

 

Luckily I just had a hitch with the ordering so I can get the HX620 instead (Blue, with the evga step-up I'm gonna get an Ultra when its released, which should be in the 90 day period).

 

I have the volts whacked up a bit on my GTX's so the powering test should still apply.

don't forget I'm also running a RAID 6 array of 8 Raptors.

 

yeh I checked your sig out and though hmmmm that should be ok for me

Did you have to RMA any of your components btw blue?

 

actually I only had to RMA 1 of the Raptors and the first QX6700.

a DOA intel proc is one of the last things I'd expect.

 

yeh that's the last thing I thought you'd have problems with lol my build could be fun! I wonder if I could get a total recall lol