neggi ... single ftw, dual is a marketing trick
neggi ... single ftw, dual is a marketing trick
Oh zn.... good work
Wish others would follow your lead
*cough* *cough* BCK *cough*
Just kidding man!
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- Semitop, that test was done pre-Crysis. At that point in time, no killer-app existed for the 8800GTX or Ultra. So the test results are as valid as testing for pregnancy the morning after the condom broke. Nothing valuable is going to show up on the test because no scenario had existed then to exhibit the true potential of the hardware. Read the reviews of cheap high wattage PSUs on NewEgg, and you will see people who're running multi-rail PSUs with 20a on each rail, having their system bow out because the 8800GTX sucked the 12v rail dry.
It's important that we all take the necessary precautions not to damage our $545 USD investment. We shouldn't go recommending to anyone that a PSU with 18a or even 20a rails is good enough to burn through Crysis without a brown out. It would be professionally irresponsible, and we'd loose credibility as technological enthusiasts.
I recommend that gamers take any one of these options:
- Get a Mushkin PSU (I recommend the HP-580AP @ $99 USD - best value for money) which will fuse the rail amperage should the system demand more.
OR
- Get a single rail PSU with at least 38a on the 12v rail. I recommend 60a or more if you're going to trick out your box and add multiple drives. Use the wattage calculator at NewEgg to give you a ballpark figure of a PSU to look for.
OR
- If you're running an 8800GTS/X card, and you HAVE to get a multi-rail PSU, get a PSU which has two PCI-E connectors and drop BOTH of them into the card. There are two PCI-E power ports along the top of the card to provide for just this scenario.
- Actually, single rails are more stable because there is less risk for brown out from a particular rail getting sucked dry. Multi-rail PSUs are more succeptible to brown-outs under heavy load because the amperage is distributed so evenly (see the reference material). A multi-rail psu will bow out irrespective of which rail runs dry. That's why it's more likely to bow out than a single rail PSU. You have to remember three things:
- Multi-rail PSUs were conceived of in lieu of any anticipation that a GPU could draw more than 6 amps. It's really because of a lack of vision. It's just like how Bill Gates once said that 640k of memory would be good enough for anybody.
- Multi-rail PSUs were designed to provide cleaner power for the wider non-gamer, non-enthusiast, non-overclocking, non-tweak-the-crap-out-of-your-pc audience, which represents the larger 80% of the PC market.
- The 2.2 Spec doesn't handle the possibility of an overclocked high end GPU, like that bad boy from Foxconn. That GPU has a core clocked to 630MHz and memory clocked to 2000MHz.
Here is a GPU that will eat mid-range PSUs for breakfast:
People like most of the gamers who gravitate towards this site are NOT ordinary computer users. We're techies, most of us - hardcore techies representing the more active of our population. Whereas the ordinary tech user would rather buy a XBOX 360 for $400 and call it a day for the next 5 years, most of us upgrade our machines every 2 - 3 years, and will easily spend 3 times that amount on upgrades that would put both the XBOX360 and PS3 to shame. We like our tech to be bleeding edge. We can't deal with the "watering down" of software every 2 years to match an already obsolete console. That's why our power requirements are going to be different from Joe Schmo who's fine running his games at 1024x768 with no anti-aliasing and medium level detail.
We have to make the differentiation between "ordinary computer user" and "enthusiast gamer" here. Ordinary users will be fine with an 18a multi-rail PSU. Enthusiast gamers will not.
- So you're an ordinary user - that it?
- Work wid the program my yute. How many other add-on cards are you really going to need after you deck the board with a GPU and a sound card? I mean seriously, technology is going back to the monolithic paradigm where everything is on board.
Xeno for max is every 2 - 3yearsmonths... unu just memba dat...
Anyway... my new point spin off is this.... unu people who buying the 300 dalla video caad and the 300 dalla cpu and the 300 dalla motherboard...
if unu caa buy a 200 dalla power supply unu gu home... cho backside...
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was making sense till u said "And all o dat is not coming from the 12v rail(s)". If it aint coming from it alone then why are u dividing by 12....IF your gonna say its coming from other rails u gotta adjust ur calculations to show that bro.
Anyway dis is the PSU i have currently running my socket A system in my sig lol.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817190007
Here's the specs
Model
Brand XION
Model XON-600F14T-201
Series PowerReal
Spec
Type ATX12V
Maximum Power 600W
Fans 140mm Silent Blue LED Fan
PFC No
Main Connector 20+4Pin
+12V Rails 2
PCI-E Connectors 2 x 6Pin
NVIDIA SLI Support Yes
Input Voltage 100 ~ 120Vac/200 ~ 240Vac
Input Frequency Range 47 - 63 Hz
Input Current 10.7/6.2A
Output +3.3V@35A, +5V@53A, +12V1@22A, +12V2@22A, -5V@0.5A, -12V@0.8A, +5VSB@2.5A
MTBF 100,000+ hours at 70% of full rated load
Features
Features MB - 20+4 Pins x 1 (MainBoard)
12V - 4 Pins x 1 (MainBoard)
12V/5V - 4 Pins x 10 (Drives)
SATA - x 2
Floppy – 4 Pins x 2
PCI Express (VGA) – 6 Pins x 2/Converter
Now the questions is... Can it run a 8800GT SLI setup or can it run it?
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oh, right. Well the point is that its less than that from the 12v rail. U can understand that right? the number i divide by really doesn't change that bro.
And if i so wished to justify myself i could simply say that that is the maximum that COULD be coming from the 12v rail, but not all of it IS from the 12V rail bro.
Anyway, Xions site is so useless. Couldn't find the product page for that psu. But the newegg site shows nothing about OVP/OCP/OTP etc... have to find out the max current that ur 12v rails can output to be sure about the 8800gt SLI.
I has a question, whats up with automatic voltage switching? A psu without the back 115/220 V switch. Is it reliable or is there reason for concern.
Last edited by semitop; Nov 21, 2007 at 10:32 AM.
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Genesis you see the all important factor in the line about 100,000 hours... the EFFICIENCY.... only 70%.... so for you it's....
12 (rail) x 22 (amps on rail) x .7 (efficiency) = 184 watts solid on that rail...
what you need now is the electrical diagram on your power supply to identify which connectors are on each rails... such as the cpu power, the video card power & the peripheral connectors.
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Thats not the efficiency. Is just the mtbf at 70% load. lol, best ting to do is try it out an see if ur computer blows. It has no PFC so effiency would be close to 80 max.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817182088
This is the one i bought and the one i was wondering about the auto switching thing for.
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On a socket A system Genesis? You serious???? God I hate you! LOL!
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