sumobritches Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 i bought the 520w Corsair 80 Plus certified power supply and now wonder if it wasn't enough. i am running 2 hard drives at 7200 rpms, and 3 sticks of 2gb DDR3 ram along with an x58 motherboard. i plan on getting 3 more sticks of ram as well as a solid state HD in the near future. i am running a GTS 250 graphic card, a card reader and 5 LED fans with 2 Cathodes. no i'm not 16 years old i just like lights. is this enough power for future plans? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/188741-is-a-corsair-520w-psu-enough-for-an-i7/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
broken Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 i bought the 520w Corsair 80 Plus certified power supply and now wonder if it wasn't enough. i am running 2 hard drives at 7200 rpms, and 3 sticks of 2gb DDR3 ram along with an x58 motherboard. i plan on getting 3 more sticks of ram as well as a solid state HD in the near future. i am running a GTS 250 graphic card, a card reader and 5 LED fans with 2 Cathodes. no i'm not 16 years old i just like lights. is this enough power for future plans? Yes. Corsair builds real world power supplies designed to provide juice where its really needed (the 12 volt rail) and withstand real world temperatures generated inside the power supply and in your computer case. I would only be concerned if you were planning to run dual high end video cards, major overclocking and several, several hard drives. Basically if you were building a high end gaming (i.e. Windows) machine, than it might be cutting it close. Otherwise, its fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/188741-is-a-corsair-520w-psu-enough-for-an-i7/#findComment-1279712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kludgedean Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 I still have one of those PSU's, and i can honestly say it's not even touched it maximum load with 5x SATA2 HDDs, 2 optical drives, plenty of low noise fans, 8800GT Graphics card, sound-card And actually an SSD uses far less power (and heat) than a regular HDD Worry not about that PSU, i'd put money on it being BETTER than a cheapass 1KW PSU (and use the power more effectively!) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/188741-is-a-corsair-520w-psu-enough-for-an-i7/#findComment-1279970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
snokarver Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 That PSU is fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/188741-is-a-corsair-520w-psu-enough-for-an-i7/#findComment-1280511 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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