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Originally posted by vernong1992
u should make a new thread called y power wattages mean jack, that would be a great sticky |
There's already so many good stickies in the Hardware sections of this forum, heaven forbid I add even more to the clutter.
Besides, no guarantee that it would be stickied, so putting it inside a present sticky seemed best. Now if only I could get most people to read past the first post.
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Originally posted by Gabb
Er if the main poster is right then how come the An and Tech benchmark said 2 geforce 8s in Sli peaked out at 520 Wattage...I mean...that makes it seem like a 550 watts is not overkill at all, in fact not enough.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2870&p=18 |
Saw that. And yeah, its almost guaranteed that the measurement is out of the wall. And I just made a post about why Wattage doesn't mean anything, and you still use it to justify your argument?
As for being overkill or not; I said that certain 550W PSUs like the Antec True Power Trio were only overkill for a single 8800GTX. It should be just enough for two 8800GTXs. Nvidia recommends 30A for a single 8800GTX, 42A for two should be just inside that recommendation.