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Old October 30, 2009, 08:57 PM
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Hi all,

I wanted to know if a Seasonic SS-400ET would be sufficient to power the following (for folding purposes):

Gigabyte GA-X38-DS4
Intel Q6600
2x2gb G.Skill DDR2-1066
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1 WD Raptor 74 GB
2x500 GB Seagate SATA
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Old October 30, 2009, 09:06 PM
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With one HD you'd be pushing it. With 5, definitely not.
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For folding, no. For normal use I would say yes but 100% load continuously would be too much for that PSU.
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At job there is a tech folding with this setup, Q6600 8800GT 2HDD 1 drive and 2 fan. The PSU is a 400W SPI,he stay really hot and we have estimated with the required equipement that there was like 412W output so a 400W wont be enough.

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OK thanks. I'll get something else for that setup.

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