Will this PSU work?

jellyrole

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I currently have a 600W Inland PSU that I bought from Microcenter with 4 +12v Rails each at 18A.

The system:
Q6600 @ 3.4
OCZ Platinum 1000MHz
Asus P5K SE/EPU
GTX 280
WD640 GB
Hitachi Deskstar 250GB
Samsung DVD Drive
Antec 900

Will that PSU carry the GTX280? I currently have a 9800GTX but am gettin a 280 soon and need to know if I should get a new PSU?
 

MarcVenice

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Inland PSU ? Can't find anything about. It's probably crap. Ask yourself, do you want a crappy $50 powersupply powering your $450 videocard? Not to mentioned the other components. Get a quality psu, like a 550vx. If I were you, I'd get this http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817139006 or something similar. 750w is slightly overkill, but the price is pretty good, and it will last you a long time. I bought a somewhat overpowered PSU, and I reused it in my new rig.
 

jellyrole

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Yes, it is the Microcenter house brand. Also it has been powering my system for a while now and is doing a perfect job! If I were to want a modular PSU what would you suggest?
 

MarcVenice

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Modular power supply's come in many different wattages. There's the 520hx/620hx, and I'd probably lean towards a 620hx for the headroom, but in AT's review their 280gtx pulled 310w when running 3dmark vantage, and AT claims that total power draw will increase when playing games, because then the CPU and memory will also be drawing more power. So you might be looking at 350w or even more. So 600w isn't exactly overkill.

Other psu's are antec neopower blue, antec true power quattro 850w ( one of my favorites, for 140$ without rebates it's actually pretty nice ) If this xigmatek 650w http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817815001 is anything like this one: http://www.techpowerup.com/rev...matek/NRP-MC851/6.html then it could be a pretty decent price for a 650w unit. Anything modular above these units will end up costing $150 or more ...