Hi, I remember that I visited this forum when I was young (yeah, I'm quite old now ), it's nice to come back after a lot of years Just a few questions about a new system I'm creating: CPU: i7-5930K Montherboard: RAMPAGE V EXTREME Ram: Corsair Dominator Platinum 32 GB 2666Mhz DDR4 Video: Asus STRIX GTX 980 PSU: Corsair AX1200i Liquid Cooler: Cooler Master Nepton 240M Chassis: HAF 932 Advanced My questions are: 1) Will this configuration support a second GPU (same as the current one)? I'm not sure if the case with that PSU and Motherboard will fit it. 2) Will the PSU go "out" from the back of the case? 3) In general, are these hardware components compatible with each other and do you have any suggestions? Thank you so much
Damn. Everything looks awesome....PSU is bottom mounted. I have a HAF XM, heaps of room with good cable management, but cheap plastic tabs/locks which break.
Hi, and thanks for your answer. Yes I know the PSU will go bottom but I'm not sure that the case is big enough. Is there any problem? Plus, will this configuration support another GPU in the future? (not sure it will fit the new GPU) Thank you
Hi! Drop the GTX980 is to expensive and not worth the money Drop 32GB and keep with 16GB Buy a Radeon R9 295x2 or R9 290x
Seriously? :3eyes: I'll give u the 16GB RAM but u have no u idea what his config is...or budget. He may have 3 monitors? Would not go 295 regardless..... Ah, ur post history explains a lot.....say hi to Thrax
Hi, thanks for you replies. I need 32 GB of ram because of video rendering-editing. I was sure that the MB supports Quad sli. But: what about the case? Thank you again!
Ok, thank you. My main concern about that Asus 980 GPU is that they say it uses 2 slots. No problem about this? Another question: I choose a 1200W PSU. Would a 850W be enough? I will use 4 HDD and 2 SSD Thanks
Online PSU calculators suggest around 880W with 2 GPU, 4 HDD, 2 SSD, 8 fans, water cooling, overlooking at about 4500mhz and 32 gb or ram...
At stock: 2 GPUs: 2 x 160W = 320W 4 HDD: 4 x 10W? = 40W (all crunching together) 2 SSD: 2 x 5W? = 10W (both working at full speed) 8 fans: 8 x 4W? = 32W (all running at full speed) Water cooling: Pump: 24W? The temperature reductions due to watercooling compensate for the pump's power draw, particularly with GPUs. You can easily shave 30-50W off of a high-end 250W GPU, so I'll go with 20W for each of the 980s. CPU OCed to 4.5GHz = ~200W at max RAM: 10W? RAM draws nothing Mobo: Let's give that 25W. Sum: 661W with EVERYTHING at max load. Gaming, CPU maxed, GPUs scaling 100%, 4 HDDs and 2 SSDs crunching data, fans at max speed, without factoring water-cooling into the equation. Overclock those GPUs. We're at 700W at torturous load. A realistic scenario would be one where we shave off the 40W in-between the HDDs and SSDs, knock down fans to half of that, shave off pump (you won't need to run it anywhere near max), lower mobo to around 10W. That's 85W gone easily. We're back at 615W. Buy a PSU with some headroom, so let's make that 615W represent 70% of what the PSU can handle as sustained load. 615W / 0.7 = 879W. You'll be perfectly fine with 850W even if you overclock everything and keep running it all at full load. You'll never hit those power draw figures.
Depends on the amperage required from the 12V rail(s). A good quality, single-rail 850 W unit should suffice (output, say, 60-70 amps). For example. What PSUs you thinking of?
Hi, thanks for the replies. I was thinking about this: PSU: Corsair AX1200i I'm quite confused because Asus Nvidia 980 STRIX specs says "up to 300Wadditional 6+8 pin PCIe power required" So it is 300W per GPU? Maybe a 1000W PSU would be enough? Thank you
No GPU takes 300 W... The 1200 and 1000 W PSUs are more than enough I'm sure. The GPU manufacturers always exaggerate plus they refer to watts rather than amps. If you're aiming for SLI, I'd say a PSU with 800 - 900 W with a single 12V rail of 65 - 70 A will do. Or a multirail unit, but one that's able to output 40 - 50ish amps to PCI-E.
