What PSU wattage is sufficient?

[goldfries]

Chai getting deaf ah?

anyway - the 2 rigs at my feet are damn silent. OCZ PSU and Gigabyte ODIN PSU and all running 120mm fan.

my other 2 rigs which are further away are noisy - not the PSU, not the heatsink but rather those 9800GT units. damn...... what to do, running folding@home GPU.

the controllers refuse to maintain fan speed at what I intend.

[Chai]

Originally Posted by goldfries

Chai getting deaf ah?

anyway - the 2 rigs at my feet are damn silent. OCZ PSU and Gigabyte ODIN PSU and all running 120mm fan.

my other 2 rigs which are further away are noisy - not the PSU, not the heatsink but rather those 9800GT units. damn...... what to do, running folding@home GPU.

the controllers refuse to maintain fan speed at what I intend.

Deaf? More like the other way. My system has to be noiseless from 5cm away from the noise maker (fans, water pumps, PSU, graphics card, PWM, hard disk, casing vibration, etc). If I'm sitting next to it and I know it's turned on without looking at the monitor, mission failed.

[goldfries]

yeah. silence is fun!

just like my rig last time,I couldn't know whether it's ON unless i really come near it. nowadays, it's just the lights being indicator.

eh we should start a thread on silent PC.

[g0tanks]

Originally Posted by chingster

Thanks alot for the info and recommendations i rlly rlly apreciate it.



I was looking at several benchmarks for single card performance and the 9800 was slightly better than the 4850 (marginal tho). however the 4850 does perform better in crossfire config. over the 9800 in sli. But im sticking to one card for now.

But then I found out we got the new BFG card at work, so i could get a little deal on it for under 200 dollars including tax. The 4870 diamond is a lil outta my budget.

Also how would the PC&P 610W compare to the Corsair TX Series 650W and 750W (both on single rails) and OCZ GameXStream psu's like the 700W (2 rails)?
Also are more rails better or worse? 1 friend said try and get a single rail psu while another friend said the more rails the better

Thanks

Single rails are better because you don't have to manage your power usage over 2 lines. Plus components can make full use of the amps available because if you had 2 30A rails and the first one needs more than 30A it can't take it from the second rail, in most cases the PSU would then shutdown.

[iModAMD]

Originally Posted by goldfries

yeah. silence is fun!

just like my rig last time,I couldn't know whether it's ON unless i really come near it. nowadays, it's just the lights being indicator.

eh we should start a thread on silent PC.

Ya silence is nice... but if you dont want to crap your 4850 you need to put the fan minimum at 60%... for it stays at 42 Celcius rofl. If the fan is less than that... you get really high temps.

[Lacus]

mine is on 45% and it the temp os around..lets see..49-52c (idle)

[goldfries]

Originally Posted by iModAMD

Ya silence is nice... but if you dont want to crap your 4850 you need to put the fan minimum at 60%... for it stays at 42 Celcius rofl. If the fan is less than that... you get really high temps.

yeah i tried. 60% is acceptable to me. you could be lowered (referring to reference heatsink).

on the other hand, there's always 3rd party / custom cooler.

[Lacus]

noisy for me ..maybe it's due to my side panel? Mine has those tiny little holes..Mesh i think thats whats it's call :/...

[goldfries]

eh. my whole casing front is mesh. with so many holes around for fan.

[Chai]

Originally Posted by Lacus

noisy for me ..maybe it's due to my side panel? Mine has those tiny little holes..Mesh i think thats whats it's call :/...

LOL! If you call that noisy, I don't think you can take the D12-SH noise at full speed.