q6600 O'C to 3.6 ghz power supply requirements, is 520watts enough?

[5t3v0]

I'd just like to point out that a suped up car is more likely to get you laid than an overclocked quad.

Someone on this thread should get out more.

 

[RussianSensation]

Originally posted by: 5t3v0
I'd just like to point out that a suped up car is more likely to get you laid than an overclocked quad.

Someone on this thread should get out more.

Yes, and the comparison of 500hp civic outperforming a porsche 911 for same price is irrelevant to me. People dont just buy a porsche 911 for raw numbers. If you wanted pure straight line acceleration, you'd buy a mustang and drop a supercharger. Overclocking is completely different in that no one cares how:

1) your processor looks
2) what it sounds like at full load
3) how much does it increase your status and attractiveness in the eyes of ladies
4) if it gets you special treatment like valley parking

Overclocking is getting as much speed as you can for as little $ as possible. In other words, I would be perfectly happy with a 3.4ghz air cooled Q6600. With overclocking one should always consider price/performance. In any event,

1) you can easily run Q6600 OC + 8800GTX on that corsair PSU, nevermind GTS.
2) I am not sure how accurate it is to try to figure out top peak of the power supply by taking its efficiency and multiplying it by its wattage since that implies the wattage rating is accurate to begin with. We know that power supply makes often underestimate or overestimate the wattage ratings. In the case of the Corsair, it seems the former as it easily handled 518.9 watts in output power at 81.3% efficiency. Any other manufacturer would have rated this PSU way above 520.

 

[bryanW1995]

nice article, I read the conclusions on pg 5, too. I forgot about the 5yr warranty. That psu is designed to be pushed. They wouldn't put the warranty on it if they weren't confident that it could withstand serious loads on a regular basis.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: RussianSensation
4) if it gets you special treatment like valley parking

Thousands of people park their Civics in the Valley. Are you sure you didn't mean "valet" parking?

 

[bryanW1995]

there's probably a lot of valet parking going on in the valley.

I just had my finger hovering on the order button for a cmpsu 450, but it was $78 and I thought, "hmmmm, what about future upgrades? what if I get a phenom and upgrade my other computer to a quad? will that be enough power?" then I read the reviews for the other corsair psus on newegg and noticed that someone got a better deal "somewhere else". anyway, I spent $49 more and got a 620 hx for $127 shipped AR from mwave. That's almost as cheap as my 520 hx was!

 

[RussianSensation]

Originally posted by: myocardia

Originally posted by: RussianSensation
4) if it gets you special treatment like valley parking

Thousands of people park their Civics in the Valley. Are you sure you didn't mean "valet" parking?

 

[qw3r7yju4n]

man are you wrong. 80% efficiency is not what you can run the psu at, without it frying.

80% efficiency is how well it converts A/C voltage into DC voltage. where ever you got your flawed logic from i dont know. It would be false advertisement, "buy this 500W powersupply, but if you run it at 500W it will break"?!?!

meaning if it was a 100W psu it would have to use 120W A/C to make 100W DC.