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8800 SLI power supply

idiotekniQues

Platinum Member
after i bought this ps i realized that hey, i may go sli/crossfire down the road if money starts a comin in.

it is good to know that it seems it will do so

http://legitreviews.com/article/462/1/

"There are many rumors floating around about what it takes to run a pair of NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX video cards in SLI. Further questions arise when it comes to running those same video cards together with the latest Intel QX6700 in stock and overclocked configurations. Today we put one question to rest, will the Corsair 620HX power a pair of 8800 GTX video cards paired up in SLI with an overclocked and watercooled Kentsfield? This is also a chance to look back at a product that we gave the Editor's Choice Award to last year and to see if we made a good call or not by doing so.

To get right down to it many people have a lot of doubt about this, most stemming from CES 2007. At Corsairs? suite at the Bellagio for CES, each system that they had on display featured 8800 GTX SLI along with various overclocked Intel and AMD processors, including 4x4. Each system was powered by Corsair?s 620HX PSU. During the course of our visit (and many Corona?s) I cornered a Corsair rep and asked him what they had done to get all of these systems running with their 620HX power supply. His reply was ?We just added the PCI-E cables.? I was a bit skeptical of this considering NVIDIA has been telling the press since launch that the GTX in SLI requires a minimum 750w PSU. The issue has kind of sat on the back burner for a while until recently NVIDIA started looking into having the Corsair supply certified for AMD's Quad FX platform because of what they saw at CES.

Last week I purchased my own Corsair 620HX based on what the rep shared with me. The system I planned to run had substantial requirements, QX6700 overclocked and watercooled to 3.5GHz, and 8800 GTX SLI. A single Raptor X drive, an external USB DVD drive, a modified DDCT-01 water pump from Petra?s Tech Shop, and 2x 120mm fans round out the rest of my power consuming hardware."


this guy has been runnin it for 2 weeks gaming and running 3dmark06. nary a hiccup.
 
also, a HardOCP editor posted that this PS will be their 2nd psu review. so far they have run it thru some super heavy benches with a 6800 chip, dual 8800 sli and it hasnt flinched.

thought this was good info since a lot of people tend to yell out ps's 750w or over when someone says 8800 sli - even though this is more about rails, as is evident here.
 
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