Right at the moment I have this rig: Gaming Rig: Intel Core2Duo E6400 @ 2.6Ghz, 4x1 GB OCZ DDR-2 Platinum Ram, Abit AW9-D Max, Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro, 2x x850 XT's @ Cross-Fire, Gigabyte Triton Black, Corsair HX520 PSU I plan to upgrade it in November sometime with teh aid of some Birthday money. I currently have a Corsair HX520. Nice PSU but Would it be able to run that rig above with an Overclocked Q6600 Instead of the E6400. Also I will have a water cooling case. I have a TT Armour LCS in mind (Not sure if this is powered from the PSU?). Also Bear in mind I have 4 ram modules and 2 GFX Cards?
It feels like it's a bit close to me... each video card is somewhere in the territory of 100w of consumption, and an overclocked Q6600 is somewhere in the 125-150 range, IIRC - that comes to 350 watts for core components only, so you've got 200 watts left to power everything else. It's what, 30 watts for the motherboard, and 18 or so (IIRC) per stick of RAM... Looks like it'll work, but it'll be close to maxed out. Don't upgrade to dual 2900 XTs, it wouldn't be able to drive them.
Corsair showed off their 620W psu powering 2x A64 FX Dual core cpu's, 2x Radeon HD 2900xt cards + raptors in raid... so yes... the 520 W will be enough (i'm specifically talking about the corsair here (warning, do not apply this to other psu's) for a "normal" system.
Yeah well I got the Corsair in there now and Never had an issue. Just wondering but thanks for round that one up guys.
