Simviation Forum - looking for A Power Supply...

Nov 25^th, 2004 at 9:18pm

yf Offline
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Yah… I got me the 6800 ultra, and now I'm looking for a power supply……

The problem is, that the card wants:
"Two available hard disk drive power supply that are connected to nothing else in the system"

Can some one help me find the right power supply that will have 3 mains, so 2 of *them I can use for the card, and the last one should be enough power to handle my:
*DVD-ROM
*CD-writher
*250 GB serial hard drive
*Secondary 60 GB standard hard drive
*SCSI 15k rpm hard drive
*100mb zip
*Floppy
*A number of cooling fans…

I hear about the ANTEC TRUE 550 Watt ATX12V,
But I don't know if it has 3 mains

Can some one please help me?!
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XP-sp2, P4, 3 GHz, 2256 DDR-RAM,

- Intel Core 2 DUO Extreme X6800 2.93GHz processor - Evga nForce 680i SLI - Corsair 2GB TWIN2X2048-8888C4DF- 4 x Western Digital RaptorX 150GB 16MB cache SATA Hard Drives configured in RAID-0- WD 500GB secodery backup drive- Evga e GeForce 8800 GTX - Enermax Galaxy 1000W Next Generation PSU- zalman's for CPU & GPU siverstones best case

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Reply #1 - Nov 25^th, 2004 at 10:14pm

Jared Offline
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Here's a site that offers a variety of power supplies:

Using the information that you gave us I came up with a minimal need of: 424 Watts using the following web-site:
http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/

I would recommend going to the site above and putting in everything, as I do not know everything that is installed on your system.

You can find quite a few different p/s here:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=106

In terms of selcting one I would recommend going for the 600W one if money is available. If not I suppose a 500W one would work, and 550W would be better...

As a matter of personal preference I would like to get one of those modular ones as I don't sue all of the connectors that I have on my current model, so next time it I need a new one I'll swap over to the modular 600W more than likely... Wink

Hope this helped..

Jared

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Reply #2 - Nov 25^th, 2004 at 11:54pm

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I strongly suggest going to NewEgg.com at http://www.newegg.com/app/manufact.asp?catalog=58&DEPA=0
You can enter what you want on the left side and the prices, service and delivery speed can not be beat !

I bought a 400W power supply from them for $39.95 with free shipping and they delivered it in less than two days ! Shocked

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Reply #3 - Nov 26^th, 2004 at 12:32pm

Gixer Offline
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I got an Antex Truepower 480w and a 6800Ultra too. Has enough connectors for me to be able to run two seperate ones to the g/card. I also power 1 PATA HDD, 1 SATA HDD, 1cd-rom, 8fans and a floppy drive. You might need some splitters though thats what I used for the rest.

AMD64 3500+ @ 2200MHz 400FSB&&MSI K8N Neo 2 mobo nForce3 chipset&&1gig Corsair XMS PC3200 timings @ 10.2.2.2 &&XFX 6800 Ultra @ 450/1200&&80gig HDD&&Loadsa fans!!!

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Reply #4 - Nov 26^th, 2004 at 3:23pm

yf Offline
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Yah....... thanks so so so so so so so so so so much....

I orderd the Ultra 600Watt ATX Power Supply
I hope to be happy! and I will send so feedback

Thanks.....

- Intel Core 2 DUO Extreme X6800 2.93GHz processor - Evga nForce 680i SLI - Corsair 2GB TWIN2X2048-8888C4DF- 4 x Western Digital RaptorX 150GB 16MB cache SATA Hard Drives configured in RAID-0- WD 500GB secodery backup drive- Evga e GeForce 8800 GTX - Enermax Galaxy 1000W Next Generation PSU- zalman's for CPU & GPU siverstones best case

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Reply #5 - Nov 26^th, 2004 at 4:10pm

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Quote:

*SCSI 15k rpm hard drive

That's gotta be pretty kick @$$.... How much did the controller cost, or is it on the mobo?
Dan

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Reply #6 - Nov 27^th, 2004 at 8:35pm

yf Offline
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Adaptec SCSI Card 29160N – Ultra 160 SCSI

I don't remember exactly the price, but under $300.00

And I think that when I tried an expensive card like the ATTO (used in Pro Tools recording studios) I had a better performers, but for the reason I need it its working just fine… except for the noise…Seagate Cheetah SCSI hard drives are loud… CL….KL….KL…CK…CL…..KL…..

- Intel Core 2 DUO Extreme X6800 2.93GHz processor - Evga nForce 680i SLI - Corsair 2GB TWIN2X2048-8888C4DF- 4 x Western Digital RaptorX 150GB 16MB cache SATA Hard Drives configured in RAID-0- WD 500GB secodery backup drive- Evga e GeForce 8800 GTX - Enermax Galaxy 1000W Next Generation PSU- zalman's for CPU & GPU siverstones best case

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Reply #7 - Nov 27^th, 2004 at 8:36pm

yf Offline
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pm me....what is it all about ?

- Intel Core 2 DUO Extreme X6800 2.93GHz processor - Evga nForce 680i SLI - Corsair 2GB TWIN2X2048-8888C4DF- 4 x Western Digital RaptorX 150GB 16MB cache SATA Hard Drives configured in RAID-0- WD 500GB secodery backup drive- Evga e GeForce 8800 GTX - Enermax Galaxy 1000W Next Generation PSU- zalman's for CPU & GPU siverstones best case

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