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Spudsdude

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I don't have this system, and won't for awhile, but I am in need of another powersupply and wanted to get one that will handle it down the road.

Motherboard - A8N SLI Deluxe
CPU - AMD 64 4000+
XFX 6800 GT/Ultra PCI-E
XFX 6800 GT/Ultra PCI-E
2 GB PC3200 (4x512mb)
4 x 200GB SATA Seagate Drives 7200rpm Raid 0 + 1
2 x Western Digital 120gb 7200rpm 8mb cache IDE
2 x Maxtor 160gb 7200rpm IDE
Sound Blaster Audigy 2
2 x NEC 3500a DVD+-R/RW drives
7 x 80mm case fans
usb memory card reader, internal
floppy drive
pci 802.11g wireless card
USB Keyboard/Mouse

I tried the power supply calculator, but alot of the items are not listed there and I don't know the power consumed by them.

Thanks!!
Jim
 
Ok, i'm getting there but still need to do some work for the hard drives and case fans, not sure about the raid controller, since it's onboard the A8N.

Drives Listing
2 Western Digital 7200 RPM 120GB (EIDE)
2 Maxtor 7200 RPM 160GB (EIDE)
4 Seagate 200GB 7200 RPM (SATA)

Case Fan's
7 Case fans, all thermaltake stock for Xaser III case.

http://takaman.jp/D/?M=PbQBQad@he@hSBgXQhXQiG5DJHKUYlO5@BDgHmn@qXfYBYaZAZavXHwXA3AMZ&english

This was a preliminary one, before adjusting for actual hardware.
total output 483.1W or above
3.3 + 5V combined MAX 142.1W or above
3.3 + 5 + 12V combined 473.1w MAX W or above
3.3V line MAX 3.5A or above
5V line MAX 26.1A or above
12V line MAX 27.5A or above
 
just get a pcp&c 510 SLI and be done for the next 5 years :)

Nothing else even comes close.

Besides, I guaratnee after asking around, seeing your system, people will muscle you into buying it anyway :p
 
well that load definately puts you up into the PCP&C category
(sheer amperage required)

there is going to be a new 750 watt coming out, though you likely dont need it
quite a few of the new 600 watts would also do the trick

like the OCZ 600 ATX12V v2.0
the Enermax EG565 series (geared specifically for SLi) not in distribution yet
the Zippy Emacs 700 watt

Id ask is this a gaming rig?
you have any plans to go dual CPU in the near future?
 
I agree 100% with the PC P&C recommendations. Also, the SilenX 600W is a good unit (as in silenx.com, not the knock-off brands).
 
man that is some serious shit you have! OVERKILL :eek: you gonna run more than a terabyte for what? you are crazy!
 
Thanks for all the input!! Still looking around at the different powersupply's, i've got some time so I might wait for that 750watt power supply.

Id ask is this a gaming rig?
you have any plans to go dual CPU in the near future?
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I don't get a chance to play many games, but when I do, I want them to look great. I'm having a heck of a time finding the 6800GT's, so in the interm i'm putting in two 6600 GT's which should hold me over till stock and prices come down on the higher end cards (I went ahead and picked up two XFX 6600 GT's from newegg for $350, i'll sell them off in a few months and get the 6800 GT's or maybe the Ultra's). SLI will also allow me to connect to the TV (via DVI) as well as the two LCD's, with an option for high def tapes down the line.

Dual CPU would be nice to have and maybe an upgrade down the line, dual CPU's with Dualcore's would be awesome, but from what I've been reading the AMD side will be geared towards the socket 940 (another new board), while intel does dual heater's with prescott(that'll be some cooling requirements). I'm guessing that will be a year or two away.

man that is some serious shit you have! OVERKILL you gonna run more than a terabyte for what? you are crazy!
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It's a lot of storage but I plan on using it. I've got around 600GB filled already with home video's that I'm converting to DVD from VHS, Reel, and other media. Big family, lots of video's, vhs suck and commercial conversion would break the bank.

Planned Drive configuration:
Raid 0 + 1 with the (4) 200GB drives, so 400GB space.
another 320 and 240 from other IDE drives for just shy of a TB usable.
 
well if the board might eventually be dual CPU, youll likely want an EPS12V supply
that PCP&C 750 ill likely be such an animal

main difference is the auxillary mobo connector is an 8 pin
however its just a double of the basic four pin andd thus backward compatible but the clip doesnt line up, nothing a spot of hotglue dosent cure

if its a truely compliant EPS12V there will be either 3 or 4 +12V rails
and they break out like this


EPS12V 6.1.1 12V Power Rail Configuration

There are two types of 12V rail configurations for systems: 'Common plane' and "Split plane' processor power delivery. The 'commob plane' system has both processors powered from a single 12V rail (+12V1) from the power supply. The 'split plane' system has both processors powered by seperate 12V rails (+12V1 and +12V2) one dedicated to each processor. The system in both cases, has an additional 12V rail to power the rest of the baseboard +12V loads and dc/dc converters. +12V1, +12V2 and +12V3 should not be connected together on the baseboard to ensure that 240VA protection circuits in the power supply operate properly

Table 6: 12V Rail Summary
........................................................................................................................................................................................
Common Plane System........................................................Split Plane System
+12V1........Processors.........................................................+12V1........Processor 1
+12V2........Baseboard components other than processors.......+12V2........Processor 2
+12V3........Drives and peripherals..........................................+12V3........Baseboards and components other than processors
...........................................................................................+12V4........Drives and peripherals
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and qdemn7 just linked me to the new 850
http://www.pcpowerandcooling.com/about/whatnew_850_ETX.htm
however it still says coming soon
 
Spudsdude said:
It's a lot of storage but I plan on using it. I've got around 600GB filled already with home video's that I'm converting to DVD from VHS, Reel, and other media. Big family, lots of video's, vhs suck and commercial conversion would break the bank.

Planned Drive configuration:
Raid 0 + 1 with the (4) 200GB drives, so 400GB space.
another 320 and 240 from other IDE drives for just shy of a TB usable.
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I would consider getting larger 400GB drives if you need the storage instead of trying to run 8 HDDs. Your gonna have alot of heat output with that many HDDs.

Why do you need to keep it stored on your drives anyways? Is it all already on the drives? Why can't you just burn them to DVD as you go instead of moving it all onto hard disks all at once? And why do you need two DVD burners?
 
I would consider getting larger 400GB drives if you need the storage instead of trying to run 8 HDDs. Your gonna have alot of heat output with that many HDDs.
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The drives that I currently have, have data on them. I am really considering going with bigger drives though, heat and power consumption.

Why do you need to keep it stored on your drives anyways? Is it all already on the drives? Why can't you just burn them to DVD as you go instead of moving it all onto hard disks all at once? And why do you need two DVD burners?
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Short version, that way I can cut and paste into custom movies from old video's from the uncompressed data.
2 burners, faster burning of multiple media (big family, everyone gets copy's of the movies), I burn at 4x with the current printable media, both drives have been hacked for bitsetting, all media to date plays on everyone's dvd/ps2/xbox's so i'm keeping the current system in place for that.
 
go with the pcp&c 510 SLI
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After carefull consideration, and way too much power supply data, i went with the 510SLI, it's perfect and I can always tone down the hard drives by getting larger ones.
 
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