This has also become a trend in the PSU industry. Power consumption is getting more and more awareness. Luckily, we see a strong movement in the processor industry where we start to see performance to watt ratio's. Now honestly guys and girls, we need to start thinking about mother nature a little as well as our power bills. With that in mind, let me ask you a question: What's keeping all these components running and stable ? Yes of course, your power supply unit. We've seen the rumors of future graphics cards consuming 250-275 Watt so what about two of them in Crossfire or SLI setup ? We already heard about 8-core CPUs, we know they are coming. With that in mind think about future development a little. But the new PSUs while being overkill and expensive, do last years. For any given über high-end system, a 700 Watt PSU would be sufficient, true. Agreed, a Kilowatt PSU right now is still overkill. 1000 Watts PSU's do not sound that crazy anymore as they did two years ago. Quad-core, Dual Core CPUs, two Dual Core CPU's per mainboard dual graphics cards connected to your dual monitors, the sky is the limit. The Enermax Galaxy 1000 Watt PSU is such a device, and now it is updated towards version DXX (EGX1000EWL), and it's all about the pins, man. But it's the reality and luckily for the high-end freaks, there are power supplies that can manage that power draw extremely well. And we haven't even mentioned Crossfire or SLI here.Ĭrazy? Yes. 300 Watts per graphics card is slowly becoming accepted in the market. See, the PCI-Express bus can deliver 75 Watts. Crazy you say? Well, what if I told you that an unnamed graphics card has both a 6-pin and 8-pin power connector. Therefore, this year you'll start seeing something new on PCs: An 8-pin power connector. See, these lovely fragmeisters graphics cards are becoming the number one item in your PC, consuming an absolutely tremendous amount of power while you are playing games. But see, it got an update as something remarkable is happening in the land of graphics cards, and the PSU industry needs to react to it. Huh ? Didn't you already write one of these, you ask? Yeah true. Hey everyone, and welcome to yet another Enermax Galaxy 1000 Watts PSU review. The mother of all PSUs had an extreme makeover and has arrived. Thank you and sorry for the multiple noob questions, I'm just starting to learn computers.All rise please. Should I get a hard drive cooling fan? Also is just 1 video card enough? Power Supply: 600 Watts - XtremeGear Power Supply - SLI/CrossFireX Ready (it says and 600w power supply is recommended but should i go a little higher just incase?).Hard Drive: 1TB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Hard Drive).Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1GB 16X PCIe Video Card (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA).Memory: 6GB (2GBx3) DDR3/1600MHz Triple Channel Memory Module (Corsair or Major Brand).Motherboard: (3-Way SLI Support) MSI X58A-GD45 Intel X58 Chipset SLI/CrossFireX Triple-Channel DDR3 ATX Mainboard w/ 7.1 Audio, eSATA, GbLAN, USB3.0, SATA-III, RAID, IEEE1394a, 3 Gen2 PCIe, 3 PCIe X1 & 1 PCI (All Venom OC Certified).Cooling Fan: XtremeGear Liquid Cooling System 120MM Radiator & Fan (Enhanced Cooling Performance + Extreme Silent at 20dBA).Extreme OC (Extreme Overclock 20% or more). CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-960 3.20 GHz 8M Intel Smart Cache LGA1366.Could I play Rift and DC Universe Online with this setup and would anything of these parts conflict?
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