Best 600W PSU

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Conor said:
Enermax Noisetaker or OCZ Powerstream?
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What the hell you want 600W for?[/QUOTE]

SLI, four Raptors in RAID 0, FX-55 O/C to 2.8Ghz, 14 fans in a case, Things
like that.
 
Richard Dower said:
What the hell you want 600W for?
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SLI, four Raptors in RAID 0, FX-55 O/C to 2.8Ghz, 14 fans in a case, Things
like that.[/QUOTE]

While I'm all for numerous case fans, 14 sounds a bit overkill.

MC
 
ModeratelyConfused said:
While I'm all for numerous case fans, 14 sounds a bit overkill.
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Personal choice, noise vs. cooling vs. overclocking.

They are all quiet fans if that helps.
 
Richard Dower said:
Personal choice, noise vs. cooling vs. overclocking.

They are all quiet fans if that helps.
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I'm not saying you shouldn't, it's all up to you. I've got 4 80MM fans
myself. :) I'd think you'd be good with maybe 3 90mm fans, 1 in front of
the drives, one in the back of the case, and one blow hole in the top of the
case. The blow hole is the best for removing heat, and I've seen a 5º+ drop
in case temp with it. You could also use 2 120MM fans, one in front of the
drives, and one in the back, and maybe a smaller fan for a blow hole. It's
really all up to personal choice.

MC
 
ModeratelyConfused said:
I'm not saying you shouldn't, it's all up to you. I've got 4 80MM fans
myself. :) I'd think you'd be good with maybe 3 90mm fans, 1 in front of
the drives, one in the back of the case, and one blow hole in the top of
the
case. The blow hole is the best for removing heat, and I've seen a 5º+
drop
in case temp with it. You could also use 2 120MM fans, one in front of
the
drives, and one in the back, and maybe a smaller fan for a blow hole.
It's
really all up to personal choice.
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My Aopen H700A support seven 80mm fans, using all Vantec Stealth with a
Digital Doc 5+, PSU fans on the Antec 550W, CPU fan, Northbridge, DPS card,
Graphics card and so on.

System is not that noisy compared to just ONE Vantec Tornado...now that is
loud.
 
Conor said:
Enermax Noisetaker or OCZ Powerstream?
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What the hell you want 600W for?
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Remember when 128meg of RAM was extreme? No one needed more than a 40G
hard drive? A 1000Mhz CPU was unbelieveable? 600W is not so far out there
is it?
 
heheh was thinkin bout that the other day when i thought 64Mb was MAHOOOSIVE
for RAM - now im on 1Gb!!
 
Richard said:
SLI, four Raptors in RAID 0, FX-55 O/C to 2.8Ghz, 14 fans
in a case, Things like that.
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Then what the hell you want 600W for? Your system will rarely draw
more than 350W, each Raptor never more than 1.5A from the 12V line.
This isn't to say the majority of supplies labelled "350W" will be able
to power it.
14 fans to cool a small computer as much sense as....nothing.
 
Then what the hell you want 600W for? Your system will rarely draw
more than 350W, each Raptor never more than 1.5A from the 12V line.
This isn't to say the majority of supplies labelled "350W" will be able
to power it.
14 fans to cool a small computer as much sense as....nothing.
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It's not small by any means, and the idea is to future proof and upgrade to
the latest and greatest.
 
ModeratelyConfused said:
While I'm all for numerous case fans, 14 sounds a bit overkill.

MC
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Some people paint funny logos on their cars.

Some people have furry animals hanging from their rear-view mirror.

Others like to have 14 fans in their case.

So what?


Odie
 
It's not small by any means,
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14 fans and a size obsession go together.
and the idea is to future proof and upgrade to the latest and
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greatest.

You don't know what the future will be like in 1-2 years, and when
people previously have tried to future-proof their machines they simply
paid extra and later found it was cheaper to scrap their equipment
rather than upgrade it, a case in point being 486 motherboards with
Pentium upgrade sockets -- almost nobody could buy the upgrade Pentiums
for those sockets. Also with power supplies the industry could be a
switch to BTX style, and I suspect that desktop computers have almost
topped out in power consumption and will consume less in 1-2 years,
partially thanks to better chip processes that don't leak nearly as
much electricity.

The best 600W supply you can buy may be the 510W model from PC Power &
Cooling since they rate their supplies at 40C rather than the usual
25C, and at 25C it can put out 600W.
 
It's not small by any means, and the idea is to future proof and upgrade to
the latest and greatest.
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Doesn't always follow. Shuttle XPCs only have 200W or 250W PSUs.
 
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