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Should I Upgrade?

liquidfluidity

liquidfluidity

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I have a Corsair HX620 that's on it's way in for RMA. I'm kind of wondering if it's time to upgrade to something a little beefier. Since I set this machine up I have overclocked to 4GHz , added some fans , added a physx card(planning to upgrade to at least a 9800GTX) , added a GTX285 , and added a 1tb drive for storage. If I don't upgrade the physx card , I may buy another GTX285. I'm wondering if my rig could use a little more juice than what the 620 is giving. Do I have enough for what I have now - how about another vid card? Am I just paranoid? I'm having coldboot issues that I have traced down to the psu or board - unfortunately I don't have extras of either for testing so the RMAing is starting.

Just tried out the Antec calculator and it said I needed around 720w. How accurate are these calculators?
 
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The Corsair 620HX 620W would not be enough for GTX 285 SLI. It might be enough for a GTX 285 + 9800GTX+. For your current setup without the PhysX card, the 620HX is more than enough.
 
You should be fine running both of them. If you look up power consumption testing for both cards you find out that combined they should be around 500-550 watts max. Realistically a 100% load is never going to happen so you should have about 100-140 watt headroom at worest.
 
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