Quote Originally Posted by madchoochter
Be very careful with a PSU purchase. I fried my system with a dodgy one. £50 psu, £800 system all gone! Needless to say I was not a happy bunny.
Yup,it's suprising how many good rigs i have seen with very cheap power supplies,it's probably the most skimped on component from my experience.

Quote Originally Posted by Barry Fitzgerald
Sorry to have to say this but as a system builder very few need 500 watts power...very very few...as mentioned only the SLI top end systems..new standards means not a whole lot.

On most pc's the peak power consumption is nowhere near this at all...

If you don't need it...a waste of cash
Totally agree Barry.My last rig had 2 raptor drives in with 2 7800 GTX cards in sli and that purred along quite happily on a good quality branded 460watt PSU.I'll bet there was plenty left over too.