SLi With Earthwatts EA500D?

[chazdraves]

Well, I picked up an Earthwatts not long ago as I thought 80+ might be a good deal, but now I'm struck with the temptation to find a second 9600GT (I just got World in Conflict, you see). I'm wondering if the EA500D could even handle two GPU's in SLI? I don't care to take any risk and I also don't care to bring back my Earthwatts (though I realize they have more powerful PSU's in the EW line). Additionally, what kind of actual power consumption should I expect from running two cards at once?

Thanks for your time!
- Chaz

 

[iBPJohn]

Techreport shows that their system pulled 297W in SLI mode. So I'd think that you should be ok

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14524/10

 

[bryanW1995]

9600 gt is very low power draw. ea 500 is fine for that in just about any instance. If you're running a very highly oc'd q6600 (3.6+) then you'll be putting quite a bit of stress on the psu, but even then you'd probably be ok.

 

[chazdraves]

Only 297, eh? That's interesting. Thanks for the advice, guys; maybe I'll look into a second.

- Chaz