January 17, 201016 yr Cheap off-brand PSUs are a bad idea. They either won't power your equipment at all, or will fail catastrophically at some point, possibly harming other components. What PSUs are you looking at for 140 euros? I know prices in Europe aren't as good as in the U.S. but that seems outrageous. I bought a quality 650W unit (Antec Earthwatts) last month for only $90. That's powering the rig in my sig. It was previously powered by a Corsair VX550 which was rock solid. I moved that unit over to my backup rig (E8400 @ 4GHz + 8800 GTS 512 volt-modded & massively o/c'd). You should be able to power an o/c'd i7 + GTX 285 on the same PSU. Just look for something that has a maximum +12V rail output of at least 40A and you'll be fine. The two aforementioned units have 47A and 41A, respectively.
January 17, 201016 yr Right now, prices here seem to be outrageous, but as I got a really good offer for my current system, I am kinda obliged to act ;-)Anyway, 145€ for the Corsair HX 850W. Seems like a well done PSU, and I can only hope it will cover the system. It has a single 12v rail with 70A.But what I just read on the other forum, some guy also said that my Aurora 600W should be more than enough. And it has two 12V rails, each supplying 21V/22V respectively.
January 18, 201016 yr Get the Corsair HX850 its the best PSU in the consumer market in my opinion and you cant go wrong with a 7 year warranty. Cheers, Andy.
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