I was a lucky one, got one new fromnewegg last night for $219 and free 2 day shipping! I was gonna get two, since they were so cheap, but had to wait for today to get some more moolah, and they're already sold out.
Will a 750W psu be enough to run that 480 by itself and an overclocked 2500k (haven't tried overclocking yet, not enough cooling)?
A 750W is plenty. And you can overclock. My 2700K + 480 both overclocked alot pull less than 600W. I know this because I tested it. A 750 would go SLI fine with only a small overclock (don't touch voltage). 850 for high overclocks.
yeah, this is way wrong. I ran two reference 480's for 10 minutes in furmark at 750 core with a corsair hx750 and it never blinked. no game will ever pull as much power as furmark. I also had a 4.7ghz oc on my 2600k and 6 fans running.
now that's not to say it wasn't near 100% peak power, but you can overclock a single 480 to jupiter with a quality 750w unit and have no issues whatsoever.
If you plan on having a load on it all the time, get a bigger PSU for better efficiency if you can. But you can run OC'ed on CPU and GPUs from a 750, 850 if you are going overboard.
I've never had a problem and I fold almost 24/7
Mostly keep my system at stock to minor OC. But at 4GHz and 800/1600 I pull a little less than 600w (from the wall) while folding (on CPU and both GPUs)
750W is more than sufficient to run a GTX480 on its own. For SLI i would recommend an 850W minimum, perhaps higher if you'll be doing heavy overclocking.
I was a lucky one, got one new fromnewegg last night for $219 and free 2 day shipping! I was gonna get two, since they were so cheap, but had to wait for today to get some more moolah, and they're already sold out.
Will a 750W psu be enough to run that 480 by itself and an overclocked 2500k (haven't tried overclocking yet, not enough cooling)?
600w is absolutely fine for an overclocked card and cpu as long as the psu isn't crap which yours isn't.
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