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Need More power!!

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warzer

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i have gone through 4 psu's in 4yrs all in the 600-800watt range. they all die in about 1yr on my system. well not completly die just cannot continue to support my load without systemhangs, crashes, or just down right won't post anymore.

i just had to build a new system cuz my old mb died, i bet due to constantly running on low power. i know have a evga 790i with a q9450 proc and 4gig ddr3, 8800gtx. now thats easy to power the problem comes with my 12 hard drives ranging from ata to sata 2 raids and a few single drives.

my current psu is a 700wt that i got locally when my last one died and this was the highest they had on short notice. now in the new box even with only 3 hard drives and the above system i have instabilities i am not able to post if i attach the rest of the hard drives.

I need help....

I have ordered a corsair 1000wt but it won't be here for a while. do you think it will be enough to power my system?

i would like to find a way to power at least one of my raids(5 drives) on a seperate psu or some other fassion while in the case. I have been reading about these new supplemental psu's but they seem orentated towards powering sli and videocards instead of hds.
would getting one of these help reduce the power stress i have? i only have i videocard at this point but might buy another to match it one day. would just running my vidcard on the supplemental reduce load enough that i would no longer have power issues?

I welcome any help and suggestions
War
 
The Corsair will cover things fine. If you can't wait to get everything up and running then go out and buy a couple of good quality 500W PSUs. Run the system and the primary drive off one and the rest of the drives off the other.
 
There are black wires and a green wire on the main 24-pin connector.

Insert a paper clip into a black wire and the green wire to start the PSU.
 
What brand are these PSUs you keep buying?

My guess isn't that you need to look for a PSU rated higher, you probably just need to stop buying crappy PSUs

With the system you named with only a single 8800GTX you could EASILY run that for years on a quality 700 Watt PSU maybe 750 Watts for that many HDDs (only for startup purposes) but 850 Watts ought to have been more than enough

do you do a staggered startup on those drives?
 
Originally posted by: HOOfan 1
What brand are these PSUs you keep buying?

My guess isn't that you need to look for a PSU rated higher, you probably just need to stop buying crappy PSUs
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yea, I agree with that. OP, what brands were you using?
 
well my first psu was antec truepower 430, i grew out of that to a thermaltake 550 then to an antec truepower 650. after that i was forced to get a generic greenpc 700wt psu from the local pcdepot here in japan. it has been running descently for about 8months. it wasn't cheap either running around 250$ and had the highest amps per rail they had.

the original true power 430 sucked it wasn't even really a 400wt psu. but the others have all been pretty descent just not enough power.

i cannot seem to find the staggered boot for my motherboad based drives, but the one of my hardware raid is set to staggered and runs 5 disk drives.
 
Originally posted by: warzer
well my first psu was antec truepower 430, i grew out of that to a thermaltake 550 then to an antec truepower 650. after that i was forced to get a generic greenpc 700wt psu from the local pcdepot here in japan. it has been running descently for about 8months. it wasn't cheap either running around 250$ and had the highest amps per rail they had.

the original true power 430 sucked it wasn't even really a 400wt psu. but the others have all been pretty descent just not enough power.
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Antec PSU's had capacitor problems a few years ago, around the time you said too (4 years ago). Thermaltake isn't eaxctly known to be a quality psu manufacture either last time I checked.

Also your current psu...
is this one and if you were actually taxing it hard it would have blown up by now.

You really should stick to brands like:
Corsair
Seasonic
Silverstone (Their higher wattage ones are good)
PC Power & Cooling
Xigmatek
Etsasis
 
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