Help with Power Supply

[damdam]

i need to get a power supply for my new pc i am building i need some help.

CPU - i7 920

Motherboard - GA-EX58-UD3R
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2989#ov

Ram - 3 x 1GB DDR3

GPU - GV-R583UD-1GD HD5830
GV-R583UD-1GD - GIGABYTE

PCIe - 650 ATI Tuner Card

Drives - 6 x 1TB Hard Drive
2 x DVD player

This is the Power supply i have will it work or do i need to get a new one.

XigmaTek NRP-MC651
650w
XIGMATEK

 

[karlsnooks]

PSU will work.

 

[damdam]

thx i started it and by my 4thx hard drive the pc will not power up it will power up for 1sec and go off then i have to turn off and on the power supply in the back before i can try agin can a hard drive create the problem or something else.

 

[karlsnooks]

I may be wrong. I had not paid close attention and didn't realize that you have six hard drives.

 

[thefabe]

I would suggest a 750w or better branded quality PSU. Your graphics card alone requires a 500w minimum add to that all your hard drives. Cpu and opticale drives, not to mention your heatsink fan and additional fans.
Here's a link to a program that will help you get a general idea of what power supply you'll need, This is by no means definitive but you should always get more than required.
Personally I consider the power supply as a very important core piece of hardware not to be skimped on. Hope this will help. Fabe http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

 

[Solarstarshines]

DamDam remember more devices the more power you're going to need you have 6 hdd well hot diggity you're going to need more power that is some major business you got there i think a 750 or 850 watt would be enough could be wrong but i would go that high since you are running more then 2 hdd and also if your running a high end cpu and vidcard such as Nvidia product by all means GET MORE POWER

 

[Adrian]

i need to get a power supply for my new pc i am building i need some help.

CPU - i7 920

Motherboard - GA-EX58-UD3R
GA-EX58-UD3R (rev. 1.0) - GIGABYTE

Ram - 3 x 1GB DDR3

GPU - GV-R583UD-1GD HD5830
GV-R583UD-1GD - GIGABYTE

PCIe - 650 ATI Tuner Card

Drives - 6 x 1TB Hard Drive
2 x DVD player

This is the Power supply i have will it work or do i need to get a new one.

XigmaTek NRP-MC651
650w
XIGMATEK

6TB of Hard drives and only 3 gigs of memory is odd!
You will need at least 850 watts of powere.

 

[damdam]

Update

all is working know with my old Power Supply 650w i found out that 1 of my Hard Drive was caused the PS not to power up properly i did not know that a Hard drive can cause the Problem, i do have 6gigs of ram sorry posted wrong 3x2gig but i am still thinking of gating a new Power supply here is the one i have my eyes on.

Corsair TX 850 Watt
Antec Earthwatts 750W
Corsair TX750W 750 Watt

 

[Petey7]

I'd get the 850w Corsair, or if money was an issue, the 750w Antec. I see no gain the 750w Corsair would give you over the other two. If you can afford it, definitely get a 850w power supply, as it would be more likely to work well.

 

[HammerHead]

PS

Vist Asus.com -- They have a calculator all you do is fill in your devices and it will give you a wattage.

 

[freaky88]

not flaMING you but do you really need 6 tb? of storage,

 

[smarteyeball]

In the interim - have you made sure you've distributed the devices over the rails evenly?

It has four 12v rails, but each only has a rating of 18amps. Overloading a particular rail will give you issues.


An 850W isn't necessary for the devices you have listed, but I'd still opt for one in case you wish to upgrade your GPU / start overclocking etc down the track.

Wattage isn't the most important number to consider however. A good quality PSU with a high AMPS is what you should be looking for.

That TX 850W you linked to fit's the bill perfectly. The only downside is that it's not modular.

not flaMING you but do you really need 6 tb? of storage,

Some people do - Full HD rips take up a lot of space

 

[bobkn]

6TB of Hard drives and only 3 gigs of memory is odd!
You will need at least 850 watts of powere.

Are you serious?

I checked the specs on the WD 1GB Caviar Black drive. 8.4W each during read/write operations. that's 50.4W for six, at maximum.

I think that the Xigmatech unit would have plenty of margin even if the CPU is seriously overclocked, as long as "damdam" doesn't upgrade to a 300W graphics card (GTX480, Radeon HD3970).

I see that he (/she/it) is going with 6GB of RAM, which is more like it.

 

[damdam]

ok this is what i got on the 650w XigmaTek NRP-MC651
and i did a stress test for 3H (Prime95) all good no error or power failure

HAF 932 2x120mm fan 1x80mm fan
cpu i7 920 OC:3.4
win 7 64bit
GA-EX58-UD3R
Ram: 6gigs
HD 5830
TV Tuner Card
2 x DVD player
2x1TB Hitachi
2x1TB WD Caviar Green in RAID 0
2x1TB WD Caviar Green in RAID 0

and this is the Power Supply i will be Purchasing this week Corsair HX Series 850 Watt they have it for 185$ i will get it for 144$ and this one is modular and the other one was not thx smarteyeball if u guys see any other good Power supply or better than the xs850 my local stores are Micro Center and Fry's no more then 180$ haha. i will need something around 850w because i will do some more upgrade in the future.