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Hahahahahaha..................... You're killing me.


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Gonna teach it to fly too...as soon as I can afford a new one!

Priced one up and it came to about £3000 . Bit optimistic I think.

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The PSU supplied with your case is on the underpowered side. It has two +12 volt rails (sources) rated at 17 amps each. One can only be connected to supply power for the CPU. The other one is for powering the video card, HDD's, Optical drives, fans, etc. The video card you bought has a minimum requirement of 12.5 amps, so that leaves only 4.5 amps (54 watts) to supply power for all the other devices (except the CPU) in your computer that need +12 volts. IMHO that's not enough.

I already bought the PC though, what do you think I can do now?
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Weeeeeeeeeell, since you asked, I'd buy a higher output (+12 volt in particular) PSU and sell the unit included with the new case you ordered.

The OCZ 700 watt PSU referred to in one of your component selections is a good choice.

Personally, I'm a firm DISbeliever in multiple +12 volt rail PSU's, so I'd go for something like a Corsair TX650W or larger.

BTW, please excuse nw88 and I for goofing around on your thread during the middle of the night, but I was bored and couldn't sleep.


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I would only recommend 2 things.
Buy from tiger direct and make sure it is SLi ready.
SLI is the way to go, easy way to make sure your Pc will be worth buying or building.


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