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8800 GT on a 400 PSU

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L337Llama

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I'm building a new system, with an e2160, p35 mobo, 1 sata hdd, 1 sata dvd burner and a tv tuner card.

I already own a good 400 wat psu, locked at 28A on th 12v rail.

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modul...views&op=Story&reid=14

there is a review of it.

I got it winter 2006, however its only been used for about 7 months, and wasn't taxed by the system it was in before.

Will the 400 watt psu be enough, and will I be able to overclock the e2160 and 8800gt with it? I'm not looking to over clock them heavily, mainly as far as I can without raising the voltage.
 
Should work, your PSU will be taxed now, at around 200w or so, according to anandtech's measurements with a somewhat similar setup. Should be fine though, it's a qaulity unit.
 
:thumbsup: Enhance with 28A on +12v? Good to go.

NVIDIA FAQ

Hopefully that link worked, because it's huge - might have session ID in it or something. If it doesn't work, I found it by going to the Nvidia knowledge base on their site and searching "product: graphic cards" and keyword "power supply." It was one of around 10 hits.

8800GTX minimum 450W with 12v current of 30A
8800GTS* minimum 400W with 12v current of 26A
*320MB/640MB because answer was last updated January 2007

So, your PSU is of known good quality and is above the minimum recommended by Nvidia for a more power hungry GPU. Rock on!
 
There is a special PSU forum for questions like these btw. And I doubt that the apex unit is a Enhance OEM, but I'm sure Jonnyguru could shed some more light on those links.
 
Will be okay.

Nvidia makes sure ?low quality? overrated PSUs are acceptable as well - i run oced 8800gtx, q6600, 4 sticks of ram, 3xHDDs, an optical, card reader + 2x heavy .55 A and one .1 A fans with 2x PCI cards (wireless and E-SATA) on a 430W. There is plenty of room to spare as i had a hungry R10 video editing card installed when i did Premiere work.
 
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