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600 Watt sufficient?

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Hello all. I am working on a new build for my VM box. It includes a i7 960, 24 gigs of ram and will have 4 7200rpm 500 gig sata drives. Since I will be virtualizing the box I plan to be topping out the resources from time to time.

For my last piece, I am gauging out a power supply - do you believe a 600 watt will be fine? I was looking at this guy:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341017

I used an online calc before, and neweggs calc and they were recommending 480 to 500. So the above one seems to fit, plus the mail-in rebate helps as well to keep in my budget!

Thanks so much!
 
Yeah that particular 600W PSU isn't that good of a choice in the first place.

To kind of answer your question: a good QUALITY 600W PSU would be enough for that setup depending on the video card you're getting. Which you did not list. So can't say if a good 600W PSU would be enough for your particular setup.
 
Without a power hungry GPU 600 watts will be more than enough and then some.
 
Figured that, I had to up my supply in my i5 machine when I got my 6950 - but this machine without a GPU I would think would be a great fit.

Thanks!
 
CiscoInside said:
Figured that, I had to up my supply in my i5 machine when I got my 6950 - but this machine without a GPU I would think would be a great fit.

Thanks!
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The Core i7 920 doesn't come with an onboard video though.
 
Don't need a video card, its going to have vmserver sitting on a stripped down linux distro, so I will have some crappy card in during initial setup.
 
CiscoInside said:
Don't need a video card, its going to have vmserver sitting on a stripped down linux distro, so I will have some crappy card in during initial setup.
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Most motherboards will fail POST if there isn't a video card installed, so you'll probably need some kind of GPU in there no matter what, even if you plan to run the machine headless.
 
Well even if I do I have an old PCI-E laying around that I can throw in there.. think I have an old one that will run @ 20-30 watts or something close to that.
 
I am starting to favor that 520W linked above. So basically my entire build should be fine on a 520 watt?

Thanks!
 
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