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The GTX 480 when OCed is not even close to that 370W. Two GTX 680 with OC ~ 500W at most, one 3930k OCed ~ 200w. In the worst case, your whole setup will peaked at around 700-750w (that's when you run Linpack with AVX on the [email protected] and Furmark on your 680s simultaneously). I don't know why...

Assume that you have a good 850W psu, it will handle the 3930k and 2x GTX 680 with ease. That system will likely peak at ~ 700w when you fully loaded everything.

Spend your budget on Gigabit switch & other network equipments, even an atom based server is capable of streaming HD flawlessly.

Playing Borderlands 2 with everything maxed out@1080p, so far I have reached level 3, playtime ~ 30 mins. FPS around 50-80, mostly 6x, min FPS have never gone below 4x in heavy firefight. PhysX High with a single 480, this game is not as heavy as I thought :p

Guys, I can get the following cards for the same price to run as a dedicated PhysX card and it's been hard to make a decision here, so which one would you get ? (power consumption is not a problem for me, pure performance desired :p) 8800GT 256 bit DDR3 512MB - this one has most CUDA cores but...

It will be ok, just a little bit ghetto thought :D, back in the 2000s when F@H is new, many of us were using 1 PSU with splitter for 2 system 24/7 completely fine.

With 140 bucks, your best bet will be a single card, not 2. GTX 560 is the right choice. Or some used GTX 560 Ti / HD 7850

The corsair AX1200 comes with 2*EPS 12v so I don't see any reason why the AX1200i don't. And the EPS 12v is not compatible with the PCI-Express 12v. The EPS 12v are like this: +12v - +12v - +12v - +12v - Ground - Ground - Ground - Ground And the 8-pin PCI-E: Ground - Ground - Ground -...

If you want the best: Corsair AX650 / Seasonic X-650, X660 The good: Corsair HX 650 / TX 650 - XFX Core 650 - Seasonic S12II / M12II 650..... These are pretty good & quiet PSUs.

@OP: Your 750W Platimax will handle your system just fine. Two 580s maxed out at around 500W only, 2500k ~ 120w, other components ~ 100w. It is close to the 100% mark, but only possible when you full load everything in your system at the same time with stress tests such as furmark & intel burn...

That review really sucks. Waiting for other reviews with better equipments.

I usually started with 600 grit and then 800 1200 1600 2000. If I recall correctly, lapping both my TR Ultra ex 120 and my Q6600 helps lower the temps around 6°C

1200w corsair is plentiful for that system. HDD (mechanical and SSD) are less than 10w, optical drive < 25w, memory ~ 5w per module. Your system will never be able to get close to 1200w. Be worry free getting your corsair 1200w :D

If it is a good PSU, protections will kick in, everything will be safe and sound. If it is not a good PSU, then the rail's voltage and ripple may run out of specs and kill your hardware :p

Assuming that OCing and other components will be able to make that build to reach 650w then what ? 650 is only 86% of 750. PSU ratings are continuous load, not peak load. And you will only be able to reach that load under extreme condition: cpu and vid cards are fully loaded simultaneously...

The Keplers are extremely efficient. A 750W PSU will be completely fine for 2*GTX 680 even with a heavily OCed hex-core i7. The Antec HCG 750W is a decent PSU, shouldn't have any issues with it. Frankly, IMO the most sensitive component in a PC is the HDD, if you've got a bad PSU then the HDD...

Wow, I didn't know there are rs232 genderchanger.

The serial port on your switch is a female RS-232 connector, I assumed that both end of your serial cable is the same as the serial port on your switch (female)? If so, you can cut your cable, rewire/solder it to a RS-232 male connector - which is not impossible to obtain one.

my windows server 2008 VPN uses X3330 (~Q9400) for around 100 users and I can tell you it is completely overkill (usage always < 30%)

You can drive 2 monitors at best with 1 GTX 470, you can extend or clone your desktop but you CAN'T game on 2 monitor (surround vision). 1 monitor for game, 1 for something else is everything you can get from 1 GTX 470. And playing games on 2 monitor would be annoying since the bezels will be...

The OP board's PCI-E 8x slot is not open-ended, it has a notch at the end of the slot. The choices are limited to either cutting that notch or cutting the card's edge connector (pcb) and he doesn't want to alter the board since it's a serverboard :), cutting the pcb is also not a wise decision...

You must have bridged something because the 6-pin PEG diagram indicated that having solder on 1 side or 2 side of the PCB doesn't make any differences.

You can get a 8x riser, which is cheap, and cut it's notch so that both your vid card and serverboard are intact.