rusty Posted June 12, 2011 Content Count: 73 Joined: 08/30/07 Status: Offline Share Posted June 12, 2011 (edited) AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition, Thuban, S AM3, 3.3GHz, 9MB Cache, HT 4000MHz, 125W, Retail XFX HD 6870 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI Dual Mini Display Port Out Graphics Card 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Vengeance, PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-24, XMP, 1.50V Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H, AMD 880G, S AM3, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR3 1866(OC), SATA 6Gb/s, SATA RAID, ATX These are some of the main specs and was wondering if my Corsair TX 650W V2 PSU could handle this. Thankyou. This build is now changing quite alot however remaining the same GPU and RAM *NEW COMPONENTS* Gigabyte Z68A-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz These are the options Intel or AMD?? Edited June 12, 2011 by rusty Link to comment
Chaoz` Posted June 12, 2011 Content Count: 1740 Joined: 04/04/10 Status: Offline Share Posted June 12, 2011 well technically it is quite possible, so it wouldn't be any problem, not sure if it's advisable, it's better to have more then just not enough. here's a website, to make sure what you need: Antec Power Supply Calculator Link to comment
jazzy Posted June 12, 2011 Content Count: 2187 Joined: 06/28/09 Status: Offline Share Posted June 12, 2011 the supply calculator isn't an accurate measurement obviously (they lean a little more towards heavier psu usage) but it's a pretty broad estimate of what you'd need edit: you didnt specify all the things needed for the calculator in your post so i just gave you 10 80mm fans, a soundblaster card 2 sata drives and 1 dvd-rw/dvd+rw drive and it came out about 400w tbh i think you'll be okay but i dunno much about the 6870 power consumption Link to comment
trakaill Posted June 17, 2011 Content Count: 3736 Joined: 11/30/07 Status: Offline Share Posted June 17, 2011 intel and the PSU can handle more than that .. easy.. Link to comment
Shadowex3 Posted June 18, 2011 Content Count: 2959 Joined: 02/27/08 Status: Offline Share Posted June 18, 2011 There is not a normal computer out there that needs more juice than a 650 provides yet. Only multi-GPU computers or servers with a shitton of hard drives need anything beefier than that. Link to comment
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