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How Many Watts Needed?

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c0nfused2

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I have a AMD 6 Core 150t, with 2 hard drives 8gb of 1033 memory and an nvidia fx 1800 graphics card wondering how much wat of a power supply i need thanks
 
CX430 V2 would be all you need with an FX1800.
 
really because i was running it on my pc with a 500w power supply and it seemed to burning up the power supply and swelling the inside pieces in the power supply unit its self, so i was wondering maybe something a little heavier?
 
c0nfused2 said:
really because i was running it on my pc with a 500w power supply and it seemed to burning up the power supply and swelling the inside pieces in the power supply unit its self, so i was wondering maybe something a little heavier?
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Sounds like you had a crap power supply. The one I recommended is a good quality one.
 
System in my sig below idles at 260 watts (3x monitors on a seperate UPS idle at 207 watts). When gaming, I think the main system will hit, maybe 400 watts.

Power supply is a factor many don't consider. You can add up what your watts (inside) will be, but thats not what your drawing from the wall/ups. A cheap inefficient power supply with in my exact same system might draw 400 watts at idle vs the 260 watts I'm pulling now puting more strain on a UPS.
 
I run 3d modeling programs and rendering of the models, so a power supply in the upper 400's would supply enough power for my system?
 
Your system will pull probably 300 watts from the power supply at most. The CX430 V2 is essentially the cheapest power supply you can get while maintaining quality.
 
c0nfused2 said:
really because i was running it on my pc with a 500w power supply and it seemed to burning up the power supply and swelling the inside pieces in the power supply unit its self, so i was wondering maybe something a little heavier?
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Sounds like you have a really poor quality "500W" PSU that most likely could barely handle even half of its claimed wattage.
 
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