Your average everyday PC user probably has what is considered a low end system. The CPU is likely in the 2ghz range (or equivalent in AMD CPU’s) 512mb of ram, and not that many components in all to draw too much power. This kind of user can easily get away with a 300-350w PSU. But if you’re not an average user, if you have greater demands from your system and a lot of power hungry devices, you’re going to want something a little beefier in your PSU requirements.
SLI/Crossfire systems obviously draw quite a bit of power (Nvidia's top cards will happily draw on up to 110w each, with ATI just behind them at 100w; make that an SLI or Crossfire setup and that's a lot of power for just 2 components in your system) and are one of the main reasons for wanting a PSU with over 400w of power. Plenty of PSU’s in the market these days offer 400w or more, one such unit being the Seasonic S12-600. This power supply is rated for 600w, supports all the major new technology standards including SLI, and is even rated for 80% efficiency, so let’s see how it fares.
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ViperLair
Nov 11, 2005, 05:12 AM
