just buyed me a new pc.....SLI

[VashTheStampede]

after i got paid, after xmas, my birthday, and well, working over xmas/new year, i bought a new system with the money i earned:

3500 ath64
6800gt leadtek
2x 80gig seagate ncq sata
2x 160gig seagate ncq
1 gig corsair 3200 ram, with silly flashing lights - looks the biz laydees


problem is, my qtec "650 watt" psu wont handle it - so i just bought an enermax 600w thing, i hope it works

thing i wondering about is, how does psu companies get away with blatent lying? my system is probably going to end up outside the 7 day internet return law thing, if it doesnt all work with this new psu - leaving me highly annoyed

however

what's the deal with hooking up 2 psu's?
wanna get this working been waiting for a new pc for 4 months, and its hear and i still cant play

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!

since i spent all my monies on a new pc, i have no moneys for games.......


on and a poll also... will you be buying "sli"?

[viper_2090]

never heard of doing a duel psu thing before... it sounds like a good idea, no reason why it should'nt solve your problem!


and what's sli then?

[mrbobbins]

I would have thought a 650w PSU would plenty enough for all that.

[VashTheStampede]

so did i..........


not buying qtec stuff again, stupid cunts


its going on ebay

[Dr. kitteny berk]

you'll find the 650W is peak, the sustained is probably a good deal lower

As far as SLI goes - not with a barge pole, i simply don't trust nvidia with graphics cards

[deject]

you'll find the 650W is peak, the sustained is probably a good deal lower

As far as SLI goes - not with a barge pole, i simply don't trust nvidia with graphics cards

well berk, ou'd be missing out. a dual GeForce 6600 will outperform a 6800 Ultra and a Radeon X850XT. SLI is a boon to upgraders, buy one card now, and in 6 months or a year add in another one to almost double your performance...

I would agree that the GeForce FX series was a total bomb but nVidia got it's act together for the 6 series.

/hardware junkie

[Goatpod]

so did i..........


not buying qtec stuff again, stupid cunts


its going on ebay

I've heard bad things about Qtec, but a 650PSU shouldn't have any trouble running that set up

[mrbobbins]

so did i..........


not buying qtec stuff again, stupid cunts


its going on ebay

I've heard bad things about Qtec, but a 650PSU shouldn't have any trouble running that set up

Mines a 450w QTEC, was dirt cheap (but quite noisy) havn't had any probs with it (but wouldn't buy another qtec after a qtec modem I bought was a big pile of doodoo) And I run 3 hard drives, gig of ram, etc. etc. it's plenty enough power

[comrade yannnovski]

PSUs are strange things, I run my Radeon 9800pro off my shuttles PSU which is rated at 200W and apparantly that needs at least 400Ws on its own.

Works perfectly fine.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

i had an x800, a barton 2800+, a pair of HDDS, audigy 2 and all the normal crap running off a 230w psu in my biostar SFF.

:D

[deject]

SFF PCs generally don't consume as much power as regular towers, simply because they are smaller and don't have as much electronics as teh big ones. That said, the QUALITY of your PSU is more important the the watt rating of it. A 350 watt PSU from say Enermax or PC Power and Cooling is much better than a "600 watt" PSU from some weird company in Hong Kong.

[VashTheStampede]

bought an enermax 600w psu from overcockers, it works fine

having only ever bought 1 new psu (and that was when athlons first came out and had a reccomended 300w )- outside of a box i mean, it never occurred to me to check it out seperatly, i've built hundreds of pc's
and none ever required this much power!!!


anyhow

enermax rules


stranglty enought, the side of the psu works out at about 650w (on the amps x volts)
but on the bottom of the box, it has a different scale, which works out at 488

which i still think should be enough
but ....
apparently my comp works out at using about 510 watts of power, which was a tad annoying

and my first 6800 was DOA which sucked

on the bright side, it stopped me playing games when i needed torevise
and it arrived just in time for "reading week"


w00 for fixing my new comp

and now to some serius GTA

been bored without vice city to play