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Ryoga

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What the heck kind of application needs a 600W PSU? Dual Opteron /w a X800, 4 GB of PC3200, and six HDD?

Personally, rather than get a PSU with a high wattage and no brand name, I'd get a quality PSU with a more appropriate wattage rating. Such as the Antec TrueXXX series.
 
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Fullmetal Chocobo

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I had to upgrade my power supply from a 460w to a 660w. I've been killing 460w. It sucks... So for some, it is possible to use that much power.
--IC2 (SW) Sander
 
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InlineFive

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Originally posted by: tasburrfoot78362
I had to upgrade my power supply from a 460w to a 660w. I've been killing 460w. It sucks... So for some, it is possible to use that much power.
--IC2 (SW) Sander
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But was your old 460w a generic no-name power supply?
 
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dguy6789

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Originally posted by: Ryoga
What the heck kind of application needs a 600W PSU? Dual Opteron /w a X800, 4 GB of PC3200, and six HDD?

Personally, rather than get a PSU with a high wattage and no brand name, I'd get a quality PSU with a more appropriate wattage rating. Such as the Antec TrueXXX series.
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a good 450W would handle that. and adding ram doesnt really take much power.
 
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Sunner

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Originally posted by: DotheDamnTHing
well your setup would probably need that 460 anyways
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Some of our HPaq servers have 325 Watt supplies, and you can install 2 Xeons, 8 GB of RAM, 2 SCSI disks, and two PCI-X cards in them, and they do fine.
The slightly bigger models have 400W PSU's, the major differences are max 12 GB of RAM, 3 PCI-X slots, and 6 SCSI disks.

I'd say tasburrfoot78362 would be fine with a high quality 400W PSU anyday.

To the OP, just get a good quality PSU and you'll be fine.
 
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DotheDamnTHing

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but sunner hp/compaq like dell use high-effiency power supplies... the powersupply tasburrfoot78362 is using is unknown..it might be a name brand or generic and if you look at his setup it rivals your hpaq 325 watt combination



for clarifaction
tasburrfoot78362 uses
SuperMicro X5DAE mobo
dual Xeon 2.66 w/ HT
1GB PC2100 dual channel DDR
PNY Quadro4 900 XGL
Promise SuperTrak SX6000 controller
(2) WD 120GB SE (RAID 1)
(2) WD 200GB SE (RAID 1)
WD 200GB SE

(from his sig)


btw, im not the the one who is asking about powersupplys its softbatch (the op) with tasburrfoot78362
 
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Sunner

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Originally posted by: DotheDamnTHing
but sunner hp/compaq like dell use high-effiency power supplies... the powersupply tasburrfoot78362 is using is unknown..it might be a name brand or generic and if you look at his setup it rivals your hpaq 325 watt combination



for clarifaction
tasburrfoot78362 uses
SuperMicro X5DAE mobo
dual Xeon 2.66 w/ HT
1GB PC2100 dual channel DDR
PNY Quadro4 900 XGL
Promise SuperTrak SX6000 controller
(2) WD 120GB SE (RAID 1)
(2) WD 200GB SE (RAID 1)
WD 200GB SE

(from his sig)


btw, im not the the one who is asking about powersupplys its softbatch (the op) with tasburrfoot78362
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Yeah, which is why I put the last paragraph in my post there :)

[edit] Brainfart on my part, I mistakenly put your name there instead of tasburrfoot78362's...and he isn't the original poster.
I haven't seen any specs on the OP's rig...
 
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softbatch

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I am building a rig right now looking at a MOBO with 875 chipset, P4 2.8A Prescott, oced to around 200mhz FSB, or a 2.8C Northwood thinking about whether I should get some decent Crucial RAM or some Top Quality Mushkin 2-2-2 Special, 9800Pro 256MB prolly flashed to XT, 2x80GB Western Digital JB drives in Raid 0 and one smaller Backup Hard drive for important files, and Sound blaster Live Sound Card, in a Cheiftec Mid tower Case Getting Zalman HSF and will get a cooler for the GPU
 
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DotheDamnTHing

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Originally posted by: Sunner


To the OP, just get a good quality PSU and you'll be fine.
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thats what he said to you...just try and get a 350-400 watt antec or enermax and you should be fine
 
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MDE

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Trade that 2.8A Prescott for either a 2.8E or 2.8C for 800MHz FSB and HyperThreading.

Anywho, I've run my system on a 350W Fortron without problems, and only gave that PSU up for my 380W Antec to upgrade the 300W Allied in my Dad's PC to stop random reboots. Quality over quantity when it comes to PSUs. Would you buy an el-cheapo 500GB hard drive that may fail any minute and take your data with it, or a high quality 120GB drive that has a much better chance of keeping your data safe?
 
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AristoV300

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You have to remember alot of PSU's claim to be high wattage but that is under cold temps. At a usual running PC temp alot of the 460w~550w PSU only put around 300w.
 
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CraigRT

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If you want to use a lot in your system and you don't want problems, PC Power and Cooling power supplies are what you need.
 
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Ensign

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Originally posted by: CraigRT
If you want to use a lot in your system and you don't want problems, PC Power and Cooling power supplies are what you need.
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Thanks, I appreciate the advice. I understand the benefits of using decent power supplies, but I want to know if anyone has any experience/knowledge specifically about the Ultra Power Supply.

Thanks again!
 
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