03-16-2011, 10:16 PM
people who actually know how to overclock their system in a stable way won't need a thread like this.
Also they will buy entirely different hardware, people planning on overclocking spend way more cash on mainboards and RAM than on other stuff, plus their choice of brand would be entirely different, expert overclockers would go for DFI rather than Gigabyte, Asus or MSI.
With the PSU i chose there you still have ~100W "headroom" as you call it for overclocking. This is MUCH MUCH more than any overclocking you would ever do could consume, seing as the 275W a GTX 580 is already pretty much at the limit when it comes down to power consumption seeing as a PCI-Express slot can only provide 75W + the 8pin and 6pin power plug (is that the right english term? not sure) can only come up with 225W extra (that would mean the max would be 300W for the card anyways, even if overclocked. Not sure if there are GTX 580s out there that have 2x 8pin powerplugs that can provide more power, maybe some. Then again, people who know about this stuff wont need this thread.
As you can clearly see, a 620W PSU is way more than enough for the systems in the startpost, even if overclocked. Aslong as the PSU is by a good brand and offers enough Ampere on the 12V rail (?? again, not sure if thats the correct english expression).
About the 8GB ram thing, im pretty sure everyone can agree that 4GB simply cant be called "enough" seeing as RAM prices are ridiculously low and there actually are applications that improve with the extra ram (like Photoshop, other photo editing software, video editing software, CAD programs and whatever). Okay, this might look like its only for certain people but many people use Photoshop or other applications like that. Also, there are also games that improve by the extra RAM, also more and more games are getting released with native 64bit support (such as Crysis, Crysis 2, Warhead, Gothic 3 if im not mistaken, GTA IV (? notsure here), Supreme Commander and so on, who can also use more than 2GB of ram (which a 32bit task is limited to)
Also they will buy entirely different hardware, people planning on overclocking spend way more cash on mainboards and RAM than on other stuff, plus their choice of brand would be entirely different, expert overclockers would go for DFI rather than Gigabyte, Asus or MSI.
With the PSU i chose there you still have ~100W "headroom" as you call it for overclocking. This is MUCH MUCH more than any overclocking you would ever do could consume, seing as the 275W a GTX 580 is already pretty much at the limit when it comes down to power consumption seeing as a PCI-Express slot can only provide 75W + the 8pin and 6pin power plug (is that the right english term? not sure) can only come up with 225W extra (that would mean the max would be 300W for the card anyways, even if overclocked. Not sure if there are GTX 580s out there that have 2x 8pin powerplugs that can provide more power, maybe some. Then again, people who know about this stuff wont need this thread.
As you can clearly see, a 620W PSU is way more than enough for the systems in the startpost, even if overclocked. Aslong as the PSU is by a good brand and offers enough Ampere on the 12V rail (?? again, not sure if thats the correct english expression).
About the 8GB ram thing, im pretty sure everyone can agree that 4GB simply cant be called "enough" seeing as RAM prices are ridiculously low and there actually are applications that improve with the extra ram (like Photoshop, other photo editing software, video editing software, CAD programs and whatever). Okay, this might look like its only for certain people but many people use Photoshop or other applications like that. Also, there are also games that improve by the extra RAM, also more and more games are getting released with native 64bit support (such as Crysis, Crysis 2, Warhead, Gothic 3 if im not mistaken, GTA IV (? notsure here), Supreme Commander and so on, who can also use more than 2GB of ram (which a 32bit task is limited to)
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