Decent PSU?

[sphfaros]

I am looking at this motherboard... http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socket939/a8v-d/overview.htm and am getting the 939 AMD64 San Diego 3700+. I'd like to get PCI-e but i have a nice 6800 geforce and dont want to toss this card and get a new one.

So i'll be running the AMD chip, a geforce 6800 and two hard drives. remaining things are simple like dvd drives and sound card and such.

Which PSU? What is the different between the Antec Blue and Control and other models...a bit confused here.

Thanks!

 

[Googer]

http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/power_supplies/max-performance/

Get either the 850ssi(850 watt) or the 510xe or 510SLI. PC Power and Cooling is one of the few brands of PSU's that can handle an SLI system (Antec is not nVIDIA certified)

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[Promethply]

If you're after an Antec PSU, go for the Truepower2 series, either the 430W (34A 12V rails), 480W (36A 12V rails), or 550W (38A 12V rails),

but from your description, the 430W version would be enough, and it is the best value of the three, IMO.

The Antec Trueblue is basically an Antec Truepower 480W with blue LED illumination.

 

[shoRunner]

ok recommending a 850 watt PSU for his setup is ludicrous...510 is also over kill. PCP&C PSU are nice but for over $200 they are extremely expensive. You could easily get a enermax, or antec, seasonic for much less and all are reputable PSU.

 

[smthmlk]

Ok, he's not running sli, and with that mobo, he couldn't even if he wanted to.

I have that mobo, a similar setup (a8v deluxe rev.2 + 3000+ venice @ 2.16ghz + 6800Ultra + 3 hd's + 2 cdroms) and it runs perfect with an OCZ modstream 450w. Check them out, as well as Fortron (FSP), Seasonic, and Enermax.