motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813131013
video card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130286
RAM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820211188
CPU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819103771

i'm trying to order this all by tonight so i was wondering if anyone could help me out with what kind of psu i need. i have a 450watt. and if im going to need more could someone give me some suggestions, thanks alot

the power supply is dictated some by the mother board, video card and cpu you have but mostly by the other periferials you have attached. Hard drives, cd/dvds , Network cards, USB devices ect. A 450 watt Power supply is usually more than adiquate for most home and many business systems. If you are building a server with SCSI drives or have added multi ide or raid cards to your system then you many need more but it is truly unlikely. A 450 would run quite a suite of components.

an average 450 watt power supply would handle that vid card and 4 gigs of ram, but little else

that cpu won't use a lot of watts but to keep it and that vid card cool, you'll need some good case fans

You really need a higher quality 500-550w power supply if you plan on adding several hard drives and optical drives, you can't go on wattage, better off looking at the rating on the 12volt rails

so you think a 450 will be fine? I just wasnt sure because theyre selling all these SLI ready like 800 watters. and i think my motherboard is sli ready and stuff but do i need to make sure i get a power supply for that? and im just running an avg 300gig hard drive with like floppy cd and maybe dvd r

okay i was looking at some 550 watts on www.xoxide.com if you could show me which one you think is considered good quality that would be great.

The minimum recommended PSU for that graphics card is 400W, I agree with chewy, I would go for a 550W. You should also look to see what the amperage requirements are for the 12V rail for that card and what power connection the board requires if any.

ugh.. this is the first time building for me with a power supply i never had to upgrade im not to good with those terms and such. i found a 500... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817171018
how do i find the amperage for the rails or w.e

Hmmm well here are the spec's as posted.
And a comment or 2 from the same site. I have been wrong before and I am kind of a newbe I started building computers
in 1981 and have kept up with the technology. Sorry if I miss led you.

Great GPU!!!
Reviewed By: Tech Mike on 11/23/2007 Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
Pros: The pros of this grpahics card far surpasses the cons, mainly because there are no cons. It is overclocked to 675 core clock. 512mb memory, 32 streamers (help aid in all the processes the GPU undergoes, and is not assigned certin tasks, in other words the GPU assigns them to optimize the full pontential of the GPU). Runs very well in vista too.
Cons: None for me, but for those who have trouble with heat you need to make sure you have adequate cooling, which is a duh, but alot of people only run 1 fan and yo uneed more than that. [u]Also like the other guy above if you have a PSU thats realy high power then you dont need it, it was designed to run on your old system, so no need to upgrade your PSU. That is unless your running like 10 fans, and have a 3.2ghz dual core processor like me.[/u] Other Thoughts: Buy it, and then when the next pay check come in buy another, then show off to your 8800 GT and GTS bubbies what it can do and they will scratch there heads in disbelief.
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Model
Brand EVGA
Model 512-P2-N773-AR
Interface
Interface PCI Express x16
Chipset
Chipset Manufacturer NVIDIA
GPU GeForce 8600GTS
Core clock 675MHz
Stream Processors 32
Memory
Memory Clock 2000MHz (effective)
Memory Size 512MB
Memory Interface 128-bit
Memory Type GDDR3
3D API
DirectX DirectX 10
OpenGL OpenGL 2.0
Ports
DVI 2
TV-Out HDTV / S-Video / Composite Out
VIVO No
General
Tuner None
RAMDAC 400 MHz
Max Resolution 2560 x 1600
RoHS Compliant Yes
SLI Supported Yes
Cooler With Fan
Dual-Link DVI Supported Yes
HDCP Ready Yes
Features
Features NVIDIA Quantum Effects physics processing technology
NVIDIA PureVideo technology
Packaging
Package Contents 512-P2-N773-AR
Driver Disk
User Manual
HDTV Cable
S-Video Cable
Power Cable
2 x DVI to VGA/D-sub Adapter

if you have little else running even this 500 watter would be the minimum I would try to use

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817153052


something like this would allow even another vid card in sli mode and lots of extra drives

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16817182069

durn newegg must be crashing or changing the specials

yea neweggs crashing lol... but first ralph.. im also upgrading my cpu. motherboard. ram. so its not jsut the gfx card so i figured i would need a bigger psu in the first place... second Chewy as soon as newegg gets back up im gonna look at those

yea chew.. im trying to find as cheap as i can i dont exactly have a big budget for this comp. i was hoping to find one under 50... lemme know what you think of this http://www.xoxide.com/lo.html those are all cheap and atleast 550 watters

specifically http://www.xoxide.com/logisys-575w-2fan-psu.html
it has
1 x 20/24-pin Mainboard
1 x 4-pin P4
2 x 6-pin PCI-Express
2 x SATA
6 x 4-pin Molex
1 x 4-pin FDD
and the 2 PCI express would hold my gfx card and if i ever upgraded to another. im not sure what the other mean other than the mainboard ect. but thats cheap too. lemme know what you think

I just look at the specials, read a few of the reviews, go for a name brand with good specs, a lot of good reviews and on sale

a lot of people with deep pockets are real picky about brands, my pockets aren't that deep

BTW you are laming that cpu out with that cheap cas 5 ram, the amd64's need cas 4 for performance

I would rather have 2 gigs of cas 4 as 4 gigs of cas 5

now running the core 2 duo's stock it doesn't seem to impact performance much as the intel's have such a longer memory pipeline

might last 3-6 months, order 2 or 3 if you want to get a year out of them

like you said i dont have deep pockets... and i just found all this for a pretty good price... i mean if i can get a better set up for cheaper why not. but for what i just got i was checking the reviews.. and (those ram reviews were pretty good) so i said what the hell. i just need to make sure its all goign to work together. thats why im trying to research the psu i need. and the one i just posted i just found and it looks pretty good the logisys ones... and i gotta go out for a lil while if you guys could throw together somthign better and cheaper be my guest greatly appreciated.

Here are a couple of neat Power Supply Calculators:

http://www.journeysystems.com/?powercalc

http://www.extreme.outervision.com/index.jsp

They might help.

DR

Just looked up your card on EVGA's website and they reccomend a power supply with a minimum 12v rail rated at 22 amps.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820146565

now this is good ram, get 2 sets if you have to have 4 gigs but xp/vista 32 bit only sees 3.25 anyway

I just replied on your other thread. The power supply you listed meets EVGA's requirements of 22amps on the 12 volt rails. You listed the coolermaster Extreme power 500 wich has 2 12v rails at 16amps each.


Edit: that power supply is also good enough for SLI, although I cant remember if it has 2 PCI-E connectors. EVGA recommends 24amps for SLI

thanks guys you guys are being a great help i appreciate it.. i think ill go with the coolermaster... but don't i have to take in consideration the CPU and motherboards requirements or they will fit the 500

A 500 will be plenty stout for the rest of the system. Most power supplies can handle a standard system IE: CPU, Motherboard, Ram, 1 or 2 HDD, Heat sink fan, and 1 or 2 case fans. Where it gets complicated or where you need a good power supply is when you have a high end graphics card or several HDD and case fans.

i have several case fans... it might get cut down though and i didnt think the fans took that much wattage...
i run a 450 watt right now with 3 case fans a 120 mm on the back and then jst old nvidia 5700 gfx card with a 300gb hd and bleepty procsessror and a cold cathode....
a 500 should be fine for what im getting + the hard drive i had and maybe another 40gb just to hold OS.. i might get a smaller case so i might only have 1 or 2 case fans... but a 500 should work for that.. if not its nothing fatal right ill just take out the second hard drive right