Question for our hardware guru. I'm trying to get my new rig mapped out, and one of the requirements for the 7800GT is a 400+ watt power supply with 12V current rating of 26A or more. This is somewhat confusing as many of the SLI certified power supplies are only 16-18A. Any recommendations?

Here's what I got.. not too expensive if you plan on goin SLI and I think it works great!!! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817148025 You can get it with different colored cable sleeves if you have a case with a window.. It looks great in my case.. not many cables all around and it's got some nice leds in it.. Looks great in the case.. lots of power too.. love it!!

And to any other Hardware Guru's... I wanna go SLI.. What should I have in my box.. would my 3500+ bottleneck two 7800gt's too much with 2gb of ram?? Lemme know what's up??

From what I hear over at opc the ASUS A8n sli premium mobo works pretty good lol. I havent got mine yet will be in the coming weeks. On the cpu not for sure, it shouldnt though from my guess.

CB get small weed eater motor in that case and ur all set.

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I like the one DaddioDan found. I have Thermaltake, but they are a little pricier. Been working >3.5 years now without a glitch tho. Next one I get will be 600W or whatever will be topmost on the market I want to put some more HDDs into my case, but not sure my 420 will handle 4 of them.

Well I've read that if you plan on doing SLI then you must get aleast 500watts or better with a 30amp, My power supply **** the bed a week ago because it was a cheap 550watt. I bought a 7800gt and ofcourse didn't have the proper connectors, I then baught the Thermal 2 430watt which it had the proper connector for my card. Now some will say 430 isn't enough as the video card box says atleast 400 but then somewheres else says 450 required. I didn't feel like spending to much at the time so I went with the $40 supply and I've had No problems and everything is still cool.. So don't go crazy thinking you might need a $$$$ power supply but only if you are going SLI mode then you might have to.. Just my 2 cents!!

KU

Daddio - Nvidia recommends the 939 pin processor for SLI configurations, altho your 3500+ is the low-end model in that form factor, it will work.. as far as a bottleneck tho, I'd look at the hard drive situation. If you want your system to rip, check into striping (RAID level 0). Hard drive is always the bottleneck in any system, and striping basically doubles the performance caz the 2 drives are working as one. That ASUS A8n mobo has integrated RAID controllers and would do the job nicely, just make sure you get 2 identical drives.

Going with SLI huh? Sweet, check out this review CB.

http://www.gibfactory.com/showthread.php?t=25

The short view-
you can run SLI on 16amps. 26 amps is required for liability reasons and overall system stability reasons.

Long story-
Thermaltake makes some of the best stuff around, you will have a hard time making a mistake with that.

I am running an X800 GTO2 over clocked with a 12 amp power supply with no problems. I run Serious Sam 2 and q4 at max resolution.

They way you use your computer is the most important reason for the quality you put into it. My 64 bit machine is mostly used by cosmo playing sam 2. He has his regular machine as well as I have my regular machine. If it crashes, no big deal. We just lose sam2. If it will be your primary machine, go with one of the good power supplies.

If you are going to fill your machine up with power consuming stuff buy the best you can afford. Heat kills. The good power supplies do not generate as much heat during peak loads. Quality power supplies deliver constant power to the equipment demanding the power. The constant power (power=voltage X amps) helps keep the equipment inside the pc cool.

Well I already got an sli mobo and a 7800gt lol.. the MSI k8n neo4 platinum sli mobo and I was plannin on gettin two new sata drives and puttin them in Raid 0.. i think 400 gb should be good.. I got a perfectly good 600w psu, hopefully my cpu should be good enough, and do you think 2gb of xtra-low latency ram will make much more of a difference than 1 gig of the stuff??? And Ups.. Two raptors or two large 7200rpm drives?? For true pwnage what do you think???

Woohah. That is some serious hardware you got there dan. Ever think of waiting a couple of months for the price to come down on the FX 55's?