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Is the Corsair HX520w enough for this system:
C2D E6600
Tuniq Tower 120 or Zalman 9700 coolers
Asus P5B Deluxe/Wifi
2gb Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC6400 4-4-4-12
PNY 8800GTX (non SLI)
WD Raptor X 150gb (+ 1 or 2 more 400-500gb 7200rpm SATA 3.0gb/s later)
1x DVD+-RW SATA non lightscribe (another drive (lightscribe) later on)
~3 PCI cards (Creative X-fi XtremeMusic, TV card, one reserved for something else)
~3 USB items (which draws power from PSU ipod, usb flash drive, reserved)
2-3 120mm fans
I've used the power supply calculator (http://www.extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine), but I can't seem to find some options on there (for instance, is the raptor x considered a SCSI 10,000 or SATA or about overclocking the GPU/RAM) Without any overclocking, I'm pretty sure 520w will be just enough/plenty, but what if I overclock the CPU/RAM/GPU? I'm getting readings for 520w-540w at a 3.6ghz overclock at 100% peak (not sure about surge compensation or capacitor aging). So will the 520w be enough? or should i be safe and get the HX620w (or something with even more power) instead?
C2D E6600
Tuniq Tower 120 or Zalman 9700 coolers
Asus P5B Deluxe/Wifi
2gb Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC6400 4-4-4-12
PNY 8800GTX (non SLI)
WD Raptor X 150gb (+ 1 or 2 more 400-500gb 7200rpm SATA 3.0gb/s later)
1x DVD+-RW SATA non lightscribe (another drive (lightscribe) later on)
~3 PCI cards (Creative X-fi XtremeMusic, TV card, one reserved for something else)
~3 USB items (which draws power from PSU ipod, usb flash drive, reserved)
2-3 120mm fans
I've used the power supply calculator (http://www.extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine), but I can't seem to find some options on there (for instance, is the raptor x considered a SCSI 10,000 or SATA or about overclocking the GPU/RAM) Without any overclocking, I'm pretty sure 520w will be just enough/plenty, but what if I overclock the CPU/RAM/GPU? I'm getting readings for 520w-540w at a 3.6ghz overclock at 100% peak (not sure about surge compensation or capacitor aging). So will the 520w be enough? or should i be safe and get the HX620w (or something with even more power) instead?