750W Silverstone enough for this?

[gaspah]

is this

750W "SilverStone" ST75F Power Supply, Black, SLI ready, 120mm fan, 4 x PCI-E 6pin connectors, 2 x Triple SATA connectors, Active PFC

good enough for my rig... note im adding watercooling and 4 more hdd

 

[gaspah]

somebody said to me the other day (when the forum was doing that weird thing for 12-24 hours or whatever thats why its not here now) that this psu was enough for my system... i did mention a few extras to what was in my specs.. but i just run everything through a psu calc and if i have to buy a psu this big, I think im gonna burst out in tears... this pc is already getting close to the $5k mark and I only work part time.... heres what I put in the calc...

System Type: Single Processor
Mobo: Regular - Desktop
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2600MHz Conroe
CPU Utilization (TDP): 85%
Overclock: none
RAM: 4 Sticks DDR2 SDRAM
Video Card: NVIDIA Geforce 8800GTX
Video Type: Single Card
Hard Drives*
SATA: 11HDDs
DVD-RW/DVD+RW Drive: 1 Drive
Additional PCI Card(avg): 1 Card (fusionHDTV)
Additional PCIE Cards*
PCI-e x8: 1 Card (areca arc-1220)
USB: 8 Devices
Fans*
80mm: 1 fan
120mm: 3 fans
Water Pump: Swiftech MCP 655
System Load: 100% (peak load)
Capacitor Aging: 25%

Results: 887W

so that means i should get like 900W?? serious... i can't afford that... i really dont want to buy a 750W then to find that i still have to piggyback another psu out the butt of my case....

I mean i just bought my AU$800 areca sata raid card that prevented proper nutrition for the last 4 weeks... :~(

 

[Bbq]

You'll be fine with an HX 620.

eXtreme psu calculator = eXtremely inaccurate.

 

[gaspah]

the 620w corsair is only like $20 (at the wholesale supplier I'd prefer to buy from for easy rma reasons) cheaper than the 750w silverstone (both acceptable price in my book).... i think i'd prefer a few more watts than I need... or is the Corsair one really good???

EDIT: actually I think that I'll go with the corsair because 5 years warranty sound a lot better than 3 years...

 

[gaspah]

I ended up getting the SilverStone 750W ST75F (no stock on the 620W corsair).

My gosh this thing looks IMPRESSIVE... ok ok ok I may be going a bit over the top, but this is my first 'real' psu... and compared to the ones I replace day in day out.... whooosh.

I like it because it's solid black with no fancy lights on it, which goes perfect with the no-mess, all black theme of my pc... which i'm thinking of renaming 'black box' once its done....

 

[axan]

you will be fine with silverstone (it's powering my main rig with similar specs)

 

[aztec61]

Yep, the Silverstone's are good units, right up there with the other top dawgs like Seasonic/Corsair, Enermax, PCP&C, Zippy, Etasis, and such.

You should have smooth sailin' now bro!

 

[gaspah]

your telling me! My PC has a whole new persona, it used to lock-up sometimes and I've been watching the voltages and where they used to fluctuate when you loaded a program, now it's like a rock... I definately love it! I freaked out because when I first installed it it would go ON boom boom OFF boom boom ON boom boom OFF (the boom boom is my amp/speakers)... but I just discovered that this PSU CANNOT run on my 6-socked powerboard rather I had to give it its own wall plug..... then it run perfect..

 

[aztec61]

Just goes to show what I believe are the 2 most important parts in a PC - the PSU and motherboard. Most ppl worry too much about the CPU or RAM or GPU or HD. Doesn't matter how great the other parts are, without a very good mobo and PSU your PC won't run real well.

 

[KENNYB]

I freaked out because when I first installed it it would go ON boom boom OFF boom boom ON boom boom OFF (the boom boom is my amp/speakers)... but I just discovered that this PSU CANNOT run on my 6-socked powerboard rather I had to give it its own wall plug..... then it run perfect..

I had the same problem, although with a different Silverstone unit. I plugged my 360 into the same power strip that my computer was connected to and my computer refused to power up.

 

[gaspah]

It's good to know it's protecting my hardware especially since it's my most expensive possession (nearing the AU$5K mark and it'll hit the AU$7K mark when I get my new samsung LA40M81BDX LCD.... oooh it's sooo nice... not that my PSU will be protecting that... kinda off-topic huh... oh well... I'm bored sucked in!