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POWER SUPPY ... Witch?

I am going to buy a pc with these components:
CPU:intel quad core Q8200
GPU:ATI Radeon HD4870 512 mb
MB: ASUS Rampage Formula x48 crossfire
RAM: 4GB CORSAIR DOMINATOR ddr2 1066mhz
HDD: Segate 500GB 32MB 7200 rpm
HOW "STRONG" POWER SUPPLY DO I NEED.
I was thinking to buy a 650w....would it be enough to run this system properly?

500w-550w should be good

Gregor333 said:
I am going to buy a pc with these components:
CPU:intel quad core Q8200
GPU:ATI Radeon HD4870 512 mb
MB: ASUS Rampage Formula x48 crossfire
RAM: 4GB CORSAIR DOMINATOR ddr2 1066mhz
HDD: Segate 500GB 32MB 7200 rpm
HOW "STRONG" POWER SUPPLY DO I NEED.
I was thinking to buy a 650w....would it be enough to run this system properly?
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How much did u pay for it?

it depends on that ati 4870 board. I would think no less than 600W.

dgaud007 said:
it depends on that ati 4870 board. I would think no less than 600W.
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Unless he is running dual, near 600w will suffice

I'd go 650 to be safe... Just remember, there's no such thing as too much power, just not enough traction.

Black93300ZX said:
I'd go 650 to be safe... Just remember, there's no such thing as too much power, just not enough traction.
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there is no "just to be safe". Go for a good brand - ie antec, reseach what the vid card drinks, then get a little over. dont spend on what you dont need.
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my initial suggestion was right on the dot.
here i did the research for you.
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500 Watt or greater power supply with
two 75W 6-pin PCI Express power connectors
recommended for dual:(600 Watt and four 6-pin connectors)

I'm not sure if a Witch is going to help you with your power supply, only so much can be made in a cauldron
Now if you're asking which power supply you should get, then go for the biggest you can get in your budget, you never know what you might add in the future

shanetheclassic said:
I'm not sure if a Witch is going to help you with your power supply, only so much can be made in a cauldron
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I was waiting who will be the first one to make a joke about it.
shanetheclassic said:
Now if you're asking which power supply you should get, then go for the biggest you can get in your budget, you never know what you might add in the future
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Really good point.

zeezee said:
there is no "just to be safe". Go for a good brand - ie antec, reseach what the vid card drinks, then get a little over. dont spend on what you dont need.
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my initial suggestion was right on the dot.
here i did the research for you.
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500 Watt or greater power supply with
two 75W 6-pin PCI Express power connectors
recommended for dual:(600 Watt and four 6-pin connectors)
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And if i want to go with crossfire? Will 600w be enough for running 2 of this cards?

Gregor333 said:
And if i want to go with crossfire? Will 600w be enough for running 2 of this cards?
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600 would be enough as noted in ZeeZee's post
and from my exp. 600 would work fine
but like I said get the most in your budget for potential future upgrades

Request for used computer evaluation

I want to sell a computer I dont use anymore which isn't too too old, and still very usable. What I'd like to know is what you think I should sell this thing for.
Specs:
Athlon 64 3500 2.2ghz
1gb RAM
ATI X800XL 256mb gfx card
2 80gb hard drives
Some LG DVD burning drive with lightscribe or whatever.
Fairly uninteresting case with a 400w power supply made by antec (not that it really matters)
Windows XP OR Windows vista whichever the person wants.
and finally, a 17 inch LG LCD monitor (Model is L1710S to be exact)
So what would you sell this for?

probably $200-250

Yeah around US$200 - 280

it would depend on how you sell it. i buy and sell computers a lot; i am friends with the owner of a local computer store he lets me put used computers up at his store. I have found that i make the most off of them when i do this maybe you could check out doing that.

Would a RAM upgrade speed up my laptop?

Hey guys, I'm thinking about giving my laptop a little speed boost. This would be the first time I've replaced anything in a laptop to make it go faster (I've replaced an LCD before) and it looks easy enough, but is it worth the money?
I'm considering going to 8Gb DDR3 1333MHZ from 4Gb. It's going to cost about £60 for the RAM, and I'd sell the old stuff on ebay, which should make it slightly more affordable. RAM is the joint lowest windows experience index score with my HDD at 5.9, so that's why I thought I'd start there.
My computer specs are:
i-7 740qm 1.73GHz quad core processor
Nvidia 335M GPU
RAM would certainly be the cheapest and easiest thing to upgrade, but is it worth it? I do quite a bit of gaming, mostly Wii games with Dolphin Emu.
Cheers

axw820 said:
Hey guys, I'm thinking about giving my laptop a little speed boost. This would be the first time I've replaced anything in a laptop to make it go faster (I've replaced an LCD before) and it looks easy enough, but is it worth the money?
I'm considering going to 8Gb DDR3 1333MHZ from 4Gb. It's going to cost about £60 for the RAM, and I'd sell the old stuff on ebay, which should make it slightly more affordable. RAM is the joint lowest windows experience index score with my HDD at 5.9, so that's why I thought I'd start there.
My computer specs are:
i-7 740qm 1.73GHz quad core processor
Nvidia 335M GPU
RAM would certainly be the cheapest and easiest thing to upgrade, but is it worth it? I do quite a bit of gaming, mostly Wii games with Dolphin Emu.
Cheers
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4GB would seem like enough, but yea it should provide a performance boost. If you can, you should go with 1600Mhz instead of 1333Mhz. Btw what kind of laptop do you have? Also the more DIMMS, the more better.
8GB would provide a good performance boost.
4GB is optimal, and 8GB for anything in general is actually best. 1600Mhz would even be better.
Sorry for the two posts. I've been awake for the past 24hrs.

Also are you running your operating system in 64bit or 32bit? I figured I'd ask since your specs for a laptop seem fine regarding performance.

It's a Dell XPS L501x. 1600MHz also looks afforable, I might go for that. As I say I am new to this, is it definitely possible to put 1600 in to replace 1333? All I know about my current RAM is that it is 2x2Gb 1333MHz ddr3 204pin. Is it as simple as taking the laptop apart, out with the old, in with the new, boot it up? That's what the manual is suggesting.
Oh, and it's 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium

axw820 said:
It's a Dell XPS L501x. 1600MHz also looks afforable, I might go for that. As I say I am new to this, is it definitely possible to put 1600 in to replace 1333? All I know about my current RAM is that it is 2x2Gb 1333MHz ddr3 204pin. Is it as simple as taking the laptop apart, out with the old, in with the new, boot it up? That's what the manual is suggesting.
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I'll look into your laptop to see if it is compatible, which it should be. Anyhow for my dad's XPS M1730, there is a little door on the bottom of it that needs to be unscrewed so you can replace the RAM. It is easy as pie, just make sure you install it correctly and check if your motherboard supports 8GB.

Okay I've checked out your laptop. It supports up to 8GB 1333Mhz so 1600Mhz is out of the question. So upgrade to 8GB 1333Mhz.

Fantastic, thank you. How much of a performance boost do you think it'll give? I'm eventually planning to upgrade to a faster hard drive too.

axw820 said:
Fantastic, thank you. How much of a performance boost do you think it'll give? I'm eventually planning to upgrade to a faster hard drive too.
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It will be notable.
Here is how RAM works with laptops.
2GB is Fair
4GB is Solid
8GB would be considered best. This includes desktops that are for gaming.
So if you ever build a gaming desktop, 8GB would be more than enough for enthusiasts gamers.
Your laptop comes with a 7200RPM Hard drive which is good as it is. I do not know if it supports a 10,000RPM hard drive. If anything you should check out solid state drives also known as SSD's. They are expensive, but they provide gorgeous performance. Just make sure your laptop supports it.

Well thats laptop is even speedier than my desktop from 2007 AMD 4400(something).
Using mostly a EeePC 1005HA (Win7 starter) with 2GB of RAM.
I found that the best way to use that excess RAM was by turning of the Windows Paging file/Swap file off. Windows is forced to use the RAM the computer got.
Which is giving a terrific speed boost. Have runned the 1005HA without Swap file since December 2009.
Also make sure to have updated BIOS firmware, my Desktop was sluggish and slow after installing Win7 Home. It turned out to be the BIOS needed a firmware that worked with Win7.

what kind of ram to get?

i ordered this laptop http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215197 and well i wanna upgrade it to 8 gigs (2 2GB) it says it has DDR3 1066 can it take this kind?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231295
or should i just get this kind?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231294
i like G.skill and i have allways used there ram and never had a problem with them

Go with the cheaper kit. It won't make any noticeable difference.

Like stated already, go with the cheapest.

thanks for the help!

Computer Hardware

So most of here are geeks in the good scene of the word. We all have our mobile devices that we love and hack and tweak and mod. 98% of the time, to do what we need to do to our mobile devices, we rely on our PC. I'd be willing to bet that allot of you also have a strong attachment to your PC hardware as much as your mobile. Weather its for development, gaming, testing, surfing, working, pr0n? Use this thread to post specs and/or pics and show off all the hardware that sits between you and your modded mobile device.
Main PC (no image cause my desk is a wreak) but enjoy my desktop =]
AMD Athlon II X4 620 Propus 2.6GHz CPU
GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P AM3 Mobo
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333
eVGA Nvidia GTX 260 896MB
3x 250GB SATA 3.0
1x 1TB SATA 3.0
LG DVD +/-RW DL
Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
40" 1080P (1920x1080) HDTV (use for tv and as display)
I use this for everything. Dev, Gaming, School, Work. You'll find visual studio and Borland Delphi 7 along with the likes of MW3 and BF3. I also burn many a DVD and do most of my phone tasks here.
Mobile PCs
See attachment
Top Left, Clockwise -=> Dell Precision M6300, Dell Precision M90, Toshiba A215, HP TouchPad, Acer 5670
All configured similarly, less the Touchpad. Minor variance in CPU from 1.86GHz Core Duo to 2.4GHz C2D. All 4GB DDR2, All Win7 Ultimate (M6300 64Bit). I actually use the Acer the most as its Power/Weight ratio is awesome. It will do post modern 3d gaming with its 256MB Ati x1600 dedicated GPU. But I mostly work in Visual Studio on this. It is nice to be able to take a break and pwn some no0bs in the face and have great framerates . I love my Toshiba as a communications laptop. Its integrated web cam is top notch. And my Dell Precision's, well they are just 17" powerhouses. Mostly used for Mobile Gaming or movie viewing on their awesome large 17 inch displays (1440x900 native).
I did a search and didn't find any like posts. If I just missed it, feel free to merge this with it. If not, I look forward to see what everyone else uses when their not on their phone!

I got an Asus K53SV-SX838V notebook which has some nice specifications. In fact I use my notebook more then my phone.
I do use my notebook for playing COD MW3 and movies and tv series and sometime I like to try other operating systems like Linux, but will do that most time in vmware or live usb.
It's specifications are:
CPU: Intel Core I7 - 2679QM, 2.2Ghz with turbo boost till 3.1Ghz
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GT 540 + Intel HD 3000
RAM: 8GB
SSD: 128GB Crucial M4
Further it has an 1366x768 resolution and its 15.6 inch. Also it has one USB 3.0 port and an multitouch touchpad and HDMI and a VGA port and an standard webcam.
I'm very happy with it and it was an good deal, I bought it for € 587 excluding the SSD ofcourse at end of january , it came with an 640GB harddrive which is now my external harddrive.

I have a stock Toshiba Satellite for a laptop but my gaming rig is as follows
AMD Phenom II 1090T 6 Core
16GB Corsair Dominator GT
Crossfired 6970's
1.5 TB SATA HDD
128 GB Crucial M4 SSD
7.1 Audio
Nothing real special but it works for me.

Asus P5K Premium Black Pearl Edition
8GB ram
few terabytes of hardrives
2X 8600 GTi in SLi
C2D 2.6 (I think)
Some dust in the case
On a 23" Acer
Runs Skyrim without the slightest lag on all highest settings
Also MAcbook for everyday work, also connected to the 23" and it's closed all the time with an external KB and mouse. lol.

got556 said:
I have a stock Toshiba Satellite for a laptop but my gaming rig is as follows
AMD Phenom II 1090T 6 Core
16GB Corsair Dominator GT
Crossfired 6970's
1.5 TB SATA HDD
128 GB Crucial M4 SSD
7.1 Audio
Nothing real special but it works for me.
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How is the buldozer? not just for gaming but other any other cpu intensive work? Im looking at getting the AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Deneb 3.7GHz on newegg right now for 149.99 (it really is in my shopping cart lol), I'll hold off a few though as ive never actually been able to chat at someone who owns one. This quad i think is at an awesome price/performance ratio though.

My big main PC is the first one that I put together myself:
Intel i5-2500k (stock)
16GB G.Skill DDR3
2 overclocked XFX AMD 6970s
125GB Corsair SSD boot drive
1TB Samsung data/application drive
3.1 Sony soundbar home theater system
47" LG LCD TV.
I've still got my HP school laptop as a backup, but I haven't touched it in a looong time.

My computer sucks :-/ here I go:
AMD Sempron 140 @ 3.65GHz
AMD ECS 890GXM-A 1.0
SuperTalent 2GB (1 x 1 GB) DDR3 1600MHz
ATI Radeon HD 4850 1GB GDDR3
1x 300GB SATA
Windows 8

My PC is getting kinda dated but still does everything I need so no point fully upgrading yet
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Mobo
AMD X2 6000+
4 x 2GB OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400
EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti FPB 1GB GDDR5
around 9TB of HDD space 1.5 installed rest hot swapped
22" Samsung 2253BW and 23" Acer X233H

I gave up on desktop, I replaced it with a Lenovo Y470p laptop. Its the first laptop I've purchased even though I built plenty of desktop in past. Never wanted get a one until they are small enough with a decent gpu and price.
This one isn't high end either, but with the AMD HD7690 which is 10% slower than a desktop HD5750/6750, its good enough to handle Skyrim in high settings. And since I only play mostly HalfLife2 mods, that's good enough for me. The laptop screen is abysmal, but I wasn't going to shell out an extra $500 to get an HP Envy 15 with the same hardware spec and any screen larger than 14".
Although I'm using it stationary as a desktop replacement connected to my 32" LCD. The main problem I'm having in term of gaming is the HDMI output signal lags by 30-40ms compared to the main screen. Add that to the 80ms in game lag (due to crappy ATT DSL) and the input lag of LCD itself, and the result is getting owned by wallhackers.
I will never get used to the keyboard and touchpad on the laptop so I'm still using my Logitech G5. I'm down on my last G5 since the other one goes choppy, I think I need to stock up more from ebay, I can't get used to any of Logitech new mice since they seem lower quality. I certainly won't be using any wireless mice or ones with glowing LED lights.
The only mod I did is to turn off the turbo boost for the Core i7 so the temperature doesn't shoot up to 90*C.