grizaptimus Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 I have been putting together part lists, and doing my normal ammount of reaserch when upgrading. I have reasently run into a question that I have been unable to awnser. Will my Power Supply beable to handle the new componants. My Current System: Pentium D 950 @ 3.67 Foxconn 945P7AA Motherboard 2GB Corsair DDR2 800 HIS Radeon X1800GTO 1 74GB WD Raptor 3 250GB WD Hard Drives 1 160GB Maxtor IDE Hard Drive 2 IDE DVD-RW Drives Various ammounts of USB and Firewire Devices. All of this Running on my trusty "Antec TruePower 550" The Upgrade: Core 2 Quad Q6600 Gigabyte P35-DS3P 4GB GSkill DDR2 800 Nvidia 8800GT/GTS or Radeon HD 3870 (Just not sure yet) I am interested in overclocking this and that is where the question came from. Thank You all for your time Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/78657-building-a-new-hackintosh-and-need-some-advice/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 Use this power supply calculator and check: http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp I calculated with the upgrades and 5 IDE hard drives (didn't say in your description if they were SATA or IDE) and a 320MB 8800GTS and the power supply requirement came to 366W. Thats without any USB devices, fans, additional peripherals. I think 550W power supply should work for your configuration, but its always better to have a little extra power. EDIT: I also tried calculating your power supply usage with NewEgg's PSU calculator: http://educations.newegg.com/tool/psucalc/index.html I put in a Intel Core 2 Quad series processor, a High End Desktop Motherboard, a GeForce 8800GTS Video Card, 2x1GB DDR2 RAM, 2xDVD-RW drives, 5x7200RPM Hard Drives and the total wattage came to a whopping 720W which I think is very inaccurate. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/78657-building-a-new-hackintosh-and-need-some-advice/#findComment-557490 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Yeah, 720 is overdoing it. Just get a powersupply compatible with your mobo. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/78657-building-a-new-hackintosh-and-need-some-advice/#findComment-557605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Yeah, 720 is overdoing it. Just get a powersupply compatible with your mobo. Well actually any ATX power supply is compatible with any ATX motherboard so if you have power intensive hardware you do have to plan a bit One way to reduce power consumption would be instead of having multilple small capacity hard drives, buy one or 2 big hard drives (750GB or 1TB) and put the other hard drives in external enclosures and use then for backup or something. pcwiz Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/78657-building-a-new-hackintosh-and-need-some-advice/#findComment-557631 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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