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 Choosing The Right PSU, Discussions about power supply units.

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kuekwee
post Jul 4 2011, 06:13 PM

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QUOTE(TDUEnthusiast @ Jul 3 2011, 02:00 PM)
You can consider the Silverstone Strider Essential 500W for RM199. An alternative would be the Corsair Gaming Series 600W power supply for RM299. Your system's power consumption is estimated to be around 250W or so, so with a 500W power supply you should have it running at close to its best efficiency since it's being half loaded. Most power supplies have the best efficiency at half load. smile.gif You can go with the Corsair Gaming Series 600W power supply if you intend to use the system for a long time and plan to upgrade in the future.
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About the half load stuff, say i need power about 500w so i need to get 1000w psu to be full efficient? How about electric bill, i heard some guy using 1000w psu monthly bill jump alot
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post Jul 4 2011, 06:58 PM

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QUOTE(TDUEnthusiast @ Jul 4 2011, 06:23 PM)
It's just slightly better, but if you want it to be the best then that's one of the options you can turn to.

And electrical bill wise, it should lower your electrical bill since a power supply with a higher efficiency wastes less power compared to one with a lower efficiency. Bear in mind that although you have a 1000W power supply, if 500W is all your system requires that that is what it will use. The power supply does not supply 1000W all of the time unless you are using that amount.
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thanks for the reply now i have understand more. After I read the forum i notice one more thing is the efficiency, for example strider gold and strider silver. Gold give more efficiency, is this important issue? This is the first time i'm trying to build a pc myself so i would like to understand more.
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post Jul 7 2011, 10:28 AM

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Question here, my setup required 475w at peak. So i need to get 900w psu?

I'm getting 15 2500, 2x 5850, 8gb ram, SSD and HDD. No OC.
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post Jul 18 2011, 09:43 AM

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600w enuf for gtx 560 sli? would it be max out the psu. I'm using 850w on the safe side hahaha..

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