So are people just going overkill with all the 600-700W power supplies?

[Jumpem]

Seems like psu's are the new bandwagon.

 

[dBTelos]

Yea, most of the time it's overkill. No 600-700W PSU will be able to handle high-end SLi/CF DX10, but a lot of people don't realize this. A simple 450W PSU can handle any single DX10 card, then you could add a Fortron X3 Booster 300W to support another card in SLi if needed. A Corsair HX520W is modular and can support almost all setups currently except Quad-SLi. For Quad-SLi a Corsair HX620W is recommended, or TT Toughpower 750W if you need more power for watercooling, RAID, OCing, or the like.

 

[Rommel44]

It may not be overkill for some people.
for example if someone buy PSU now and want buy R600 with rummors about 250-300w + OCed CPU some HDDs and so on its better to buy 600w PSU and be sure that power will not be problem.
For me Seasonic S12 500w is more than enough but some people may think they need more:disgust:

 

[pkrush]

Yes it is overkill, since the only thing that much power would be useful for (SLI G80) will require 4 PCI Express connectors, which very few power supplies actually have (and the ones that do are typically more than 850 watts).

 

[Baked]

It's the new e-penis boosting agent.

 

[Icepick]

Originally posted by: Baked
It's the new e-penis boosting agent.

QFT

 

[MegaVovaN]

I have 460 watt thermal take PSU powering a HDD, AGP 6800GT, and AMD 3200+ (32bit)

Not a problem so far!

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I was running dual PSUs for a while, but I was actually working them... When I did run just the 600w seasonic, there were stability issues at times, but I didn't have any problems at all when I was running one 600w Seasonic and another 500w Seasonic. But I agree, for the most part, they are completely unnecessary is most peoples' rigs.