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- Feb 8, 2005
Soooo..... need a little help here, thought I would stop lurking and find out what everyone thinks.
I am building a PC for a friend, gonna go with the following
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Newcastle
A8N-SLI Premium
Western Digital 74GB Raptor
BFG 7800 GTX
Thats just the really power hungry stuff.... so he wants this for gaming, gonna throw it all in one of the new Antec P180 cases. He plans on upgrading to SLI and a dual core proc later on (about 1-2 years from now).
So I am trying to find a good PSU that I can trust will work with two of those 7800GTX's and a dual core proc, so far the only thing that looks to be a definite is the PC Power & Cooling 510 SLI-PFC.
This is given the power requirements for the 7800 that are listed here.
According to that site, a PC running SLI 7800GTX's should have about 34A of 12V available at a minimum.
So... he wants to go cheaper if it is safe, looking at the Seasonic S12-600 and it appears to be a good PSU, I am just not sure how it would work out with two rails each limited to 18A. Is the system gonna use just one rail for the CPU, and the other gets split between the VC's? If so, would that work properly for SLI'd 7800's?
Thanks for any/all advice,
ryan
I am building a PC for a friend, gonna go with the following
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Newcastle
A8N-SLI Premium
Western Digital 74GB Raptor
BFG 7800 GTX
Thats just the really power hungry stuff.... so he wants this for gaming, gonna throw it all in one of the new Antec P180 cases. He plans on upgrading to SLI and a dual core proc later on (about 1-2 years from now).
So I am trying to find a good PSU that I can trust will work with two of those 7800GTX's and a dual core proc, so far the only thing that looks to be a definite is the PC Power & Cooling 510 SLI-PFC.
This is given the power requirements for the 7800 that are listed here.
According to that site, a PC running SLI 7800GTX's should have about 34A of 12V available at a minimum.
So... he wants to go cheaper if it is safe, looking at the Seasonic S12-600 and it appears to be a good PSU, I am just not sure how it would work out with two rails each limited to 18A. Is the system gonna use just one rail for the CPU, and the other gets split between the VC's? If so, would that work properly for SLI'd 7800's?
Thanks for any/all advice,
ryan