Originally Posted By: Murph
Sounds like a great machine Cat. You didn't give part numbers so I'm wondering, what in the world is a 1000W power supply for?

I can't talk, my gaming rig has a 900 watt but that was to support a pair of SLI linked, power hogging 3-d cards at the time.


It's mostly just to insure the video card for 6 monitors will have power to spare.

VisionTek AMD Radion HD7870 Eyefinity 6 ED Graphic Card 900548



System Requirements:

500W (or greater) power supply with one 75W 6-pin PCI Express power connector recommended 600W power supply (or greater) with two 75W 6-pin PCI Express power connectors recommended for AMD CrossFire™ technology.




Last edited by CatBrat; 09/12/14 06:11 PM.