What's that? Another upgrade thread?

That PC would never consume over 400W, Are you sure there isn't something wrong with that 300GB PATA drive?

Let me use the calculator to find out how much you're using roughly.
 
I tried out the calculator earlier based on my new specs it came to 416W including the HD5770
 
Hmm..that seems rather high but ok. I would then go ahead with buying the PSU. What's your budget for PSU/Graphics card?

I'm also slightly worried that the 5770 will be bottlenecked by your CPU. A 4870/4890 would be heavily bottlenecked by it.
It is a Pentium 4 right? Not a Pentium Dual core?

I had a Coolermaster Extreme power 650W and it was a really good PSU. Ran my 3870X2 without any problem(6pin and 8pin connector needed)
 
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Tero said:
Hmm..that seems rather high but ok. I would then go ahead with buying the PSU. What's your budget for PSU/Graphics card?

I'm also slightly worried that the 5770 will be bottlenecked by your CPU. A 4870/4890 would be heavily bottlenecked by it.
It is a Pentium 4 right? Not a Pentium Dual core?

I had a Coolermaster Extreme power 650W and it was a really good PSU. Ran my 3870X2 without any problem(6pin and 8pin connector needed)
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Not a Dual Core, however I am effectively buying a whole new PC, so the gfx card would be used in a P55 system with a Core i5 processor. I have R3000 to spend on gfx card and PSU.
 
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You have the links mixed, they're both for the Sapphire 5770. ;)
 
The gigabyte odin power supplies are rated on peak power not continuous. That 585watt for example is a 500watt. Most no name brands are the same. Your "400"watt is probably not even a 300watt.
 
Don't buy a coolermaster PSU ever

Runs like a diesel tractor inside your case. And performance was pretty mediocre too...
 
Qwikslver said:
The gigabyte odin power supplies are rated on peak power not continuous. That 585watt for example is a 500watt. Most no name brands are the same. Your "400"watt is probably not even a 300watt.
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Well either way, it ran my whole 4870 Xfire system, Phenom II OC 3.8, 4Gbs RAM,3 HDD's etc with no problem at all.

I would still recommend the Corsair one. They're top of the top.
 
Well, right now I am planning on going with the Sapphire HD5770 and I am still unable to decide between the Odin 720 and the Corsair 650W. The latter is slightly more expensive, but probably for good reason.

From what I've read about the P55 architecture, it seems that running a Crossfire setup is not generally going to give too large a boost as the P55 architecture sees the northbridge moved onto the CPU itself, thus creating a bottleneck when two gfx cards are pumping data at it. Is this correct?
 
You'll never go wrong with a Corsair product. ;) Good choice.
 
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