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Recommendations please: 700W+ PSU

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  • 19-12-2011 4:22pm
    #1
    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hello all,

    This year I've built myself a new gaming machine as well as a more "budget friendly" one for my brother. Not being one to be left out, my mother too has been given a "new" PC out of my old spare parts (C2D + 4GB of RAM + my old mATX board lashed into a cheap and cheerful case and PSU bundle from Dabs).

    Having taken care of the essentials for everyone in the family, I've got more or less enough spare parts to build a reasonable machine which will have a Core 2 Quad, 4GB of RAM (which I'm gonna bump to 8 cause it's not all that expensive) and 2 X 8800GTX in SLi. Now, I know they're very power hungry cards and the recommended is 700W or 750W of a PSU (and frak me they're more expensive than I remember), so I'm looking for recommendations in a PSU to turn this pile of spare parts into something functional :)


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    deconduo
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,281 Mod ✭✭✭✭deconduo


    As far as I can tell you wouldn't need anything near that much to power it. A decent 600W unit should be more than enough:

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    Unfortunately buying a single PSU is going to be expensive anyway because you have to factor shipping costs into account. If you could piggy-back off someone's HWVS order and grab a SF Amazon 650W that would be your best bet.


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