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Old 21-09-2014, 17:23   #28
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Re: psu help

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Originally Posted by daz300 View Post
You maybe right there ken
Highly unlikely. To exceed the output of a quality 550w power supply you'd need an ultra-high end gaming PC with two £500 graphics cards running at full throttle along with a 4-8-core CPU also at 100% at the same time.

That site, like most sites trying to sell you overpowered and overpriced power supplies, overestimates your needs by a huge amount and borders on being a complete lie.

Just to prove how ridiculous it is it thinks my PC needs a 1000w power supply. It's been running just fine off a 430w supply for 5 years. Average usage is 90w while idle, 350 while gaming.

It also thinks my machine at work, a fully certified Dell server with 100% Dell certified and guaranteed components, needs a 750w supply yet Dell supplies it with only a 550w - and it barely uses 120w most of the time.
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