PSU

[Jimbo]

I'm looking into buying a new PSU for my gaming rig. I recently purchased a 8800GTX so we all know what a power whore this card is (For what it's worth, this card, in my opinion, is worth the £380 i paid for it)

But it's struggling with not getting enough power, so it does its job of not working at its full potential (which is a great feature) But as a gamer that I am I want the full hell house of power that I can get from this beauty.

I currently have the, 600W ATX SurgeControl Power Supply. Which works fine. But as I said, I want a bigger one to power this sucker of a card up, as well as my other components;

Sony 18x DVD/RW
320GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA 2
250GB Seagate 7200 SATA-2
AMD Athlon64 X2 4200

[mac124]

600 watt should be enough if its a decent brand. I have a 600watt Seasonic in my gaming rig and it seems to work just fine, no messages about low power and it benchies about right compared to similar specced setups.

[Sean]

Go for one with at least two dedicated PCI-E rails - those generally come on the \"SLi certified\" power supplies.

Hiper 580 should do the job, modular too.