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Power supply question for 6800 Ultra
I just ordered a BFG6800-ultra-oc. I have read how Nvidia has lowered its
recommended PSU (for those who don't OC) I have an Antec 430 PSU XP2800 Barton 1Gig DDR Raid drives, optical drives, audigy card, firewire card, etc... Do I really need to buy a 480 PSU? Obviously I will put in the card when I get it and test it out, but I would like to use it as soon as I get it... Thanks, MJ |
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BTW, I have read the post's here already, and figure it will be good enough
but with everything else in my rig, I don't know if there is enough juice... 4 hard drives on raid, 2 optical drives, firewire, sb card, 4 case fans (but might add one of those slot fans) |
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Do I really need to buy a 480 PSU? Obviously I will put in the card when I get it and test it out, but I would like to use it as soon as I get it... Thanks, MJ You don't need another supply. I have used two different 300W supplies on a 6800u OCed to 440+. Works perfectly on both. I've also used the 6800u on an Antec 430 watt, it too worked perfectly with 6800u, in fact, the rails didn't even sag with the 430W supply. Jeff B |
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Running the 430 watt Antec you just might fry your heavily componented
system with the 6800 Ultra video card. There really is a reason WHY they recommend a MINIMUM power supply of 480 Watts. -- DaveW "MJ" wrote in message ink.net... I just ordered a BFG6800-ultra-oc. I have read how Nvidia has lowered its recommended PSU (for those who don't OC) I have an Antec 430 PSU XP2800 Barton 1Gig DDR Raid drives, optical drives, audigy card, firewire card, etc... Do I really need to buy a 480 PSU? Obviously I will put in the card when I get it and test it out, but I would like to use it as soon as I get it... Thanks, MJ |
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This is what I found when I researched this.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/05...s_6096837.html Pat "DaveW" wrote in message news:r%9Wc.54076$mD.48407@attbi_s02... Running the 430 watt Antec you just might fry your heavily componented system with the 6800 Ultra video card. There really is a reason WHY they recommend a MINIMUM power supply of 480 Watts. -- DaveW "MJ" wrote in message ink.net... I just ordered a BFG6800-ultra-oc. I have read how Nvidia has lowered its recommended PSU (for those who don't OC) I have an Antec 430 PSU XP2800 Barton 1Gig DDR Raid drives, optical drives, audigy card, firewire card, etc... Do I really need to buy a 480 PSU? Obviously I will put in the card when I get it and test it out, but I would like to use it as soon as I get it... Thanks, MJ |
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"DaveW" wrote in message news:r%9Wc.54076$mD.48407@attbi_s02... Running the 430 watt Antec you just might fry your heavily componented system with the 6800 Ultra video card. There really is a reason WHY they recommend a MINIMUM power supply of 480 Watts. -- DaveW THanks, thats what I was concerned about... with all the componants in my system. |
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"DaveW" wrote in message news:r%9Wc.54076$mD.48407@attbi_s02... Running the 430 watt Antec you just might fry your heavily componented system with the 6800 Ultra video card. There really is a reason WHY they recommend a MINIMUM power supply of 480 Watts. -- DaveW So will my Antec 550W have enough juice? When are Antec gonna do a TruePower II series with 600-650W PSU's, cable sleeving and modular???? WHEN?!?? |
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There really is a reason WHY they
recommend a MINIMUM power supply of 480 Watts. As they themselves said, the reason for this specification was due to "worst case scenarios," and this number took into account the fact that poor quality power supplies, which are quite common, can grossly underperform. The Antec TruePower series are very high quality power supplies -- if all power supplies were this good, that specification would have been a LOT lower. So will my Antec 550W have enough juice? When are Antec gonna do a TruePower II series with 600-650W PSU's, cable sleeving and modular???? WHEN?!?? At this point, there simply aren't any systems that "need" this much power as long as it's a high quality power supply, so there isn't really a reason to build them. Keep in mind that there are low quality 600 watt supplies that don't perform as well as high quality 400 watt supplies -- I think an Antec 550 would handle ANY system you could build today. There's a reason that the biggest computer power supply from Antec (one of the most popular power supply manufactures) is "only" a 550 watt. It's simply powerful enough for the most power hungry systems today. Larry |
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