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Power Supply Recommendation

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jleves

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I'm going to be buying a new pretty high end system including a core 2 dual 6600, x1950xtx and an Asus P5W motherboard and wanted a little feedback on a power supply. I currently have a Kingwin 600w modular power supply in my cart. I really want to stick with a modular design. I plan to go to a crossfire solution in the future. The power supply I'm looking at is the Kingwin ABT-600MA1 Mach 1 600W Modular Power Supply. It's got a 120mm bottom and 80mm back fan. From what I can tell, it supplies 40amps to the two +12v rails.

So the basic question is, is Kingwin good, bad, indifferent? If bad, what is a good 600w modular power supply that will handle a x1950xtx crossfirel and dual core cpu?

Thanks in advance.
 
Interesting power supply - looks like it has plenty of +12v power.

Just out of curiousity is the Kingwin not good?
 
An excellent PSU, albeit expensive and most likely overkill. IMO, for a modular, quiet, efficient and high quality PSU at a good price ($129 @ Newegg), the Corsair HX 520W is hard to beat (it also is capable of putting out 40A or 480W on the 12V rail, which is more 550-600W PSU territory and actually more than the Liberty 620W, IIRC).
 
I'd go w/ the Corsair (based on the Seasonic M12 platform) or a Seasonic M12 500 Watt + psu if you looking for modular, if not I'd go w/ an S12 500 or 600 watt unit.
 
Based on the comment above, I figure it's already a $2500 system - I should get a serious power supply. So, for an extra $60 over the original Kingwin, I decided to go with the Corsair HX620 modular. Tons of power, great rep, modular. Anyone think there's a better $170 power supply out there?
 
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