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Is 860 watts enough??

Argentum077
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Yes. Easily with plenty of oc room.

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Indeedily it does, go ahead.

 

Just a sub quesiton, does anybody think it would be enough with 750w?

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Indeedily it does, go ahead.

 

Just a sub quesiton, does anybody think it would be enough with 750w?

It would run but with very little headroom unless it was a very, very baller 750w psu. 

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Yes. Easily with plenty of oc room.

 

So an AX1200i is pretty much a waste?? ... i want to have enough headroom for OC but also to have a fair amount of SSDs/HDDs (2 SSDs, 2 HDDs), a good sound card among others, 32 Gb of RAM and i honestly have no idea how much power they can draw... how much more watts would the OC need for the CPU and each GPU?? ... just an estimate i know it depends on the chip and it's OC potential...

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So an AX1200i is pretty much a waste?? ... i want to have enough headroom for OC but also to have a fair amount of SSDs/HDDs (2 SSDs, 2 HDDs), a good sound card among others, 32 Gb of RAM and i honestly have no idea how much power they can draw... how much more watts would the OC need for the CPU and each GPU?? ... just an estimate i know it depends on the chip and it's OC potential...

Yes unless you're running 3 780 Ti's. 

Hdd's, ssd's, fans, ram, etc use relatively very little power compared to the graphics cards. This is why we can generally recommend a psu based on the gpu config alone. 

Edit: Oc'ing should draw ~50w more from each cpu/gpu but it depends on your settings.

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Yes unless you're running 3 780 Ti's. 

Hdd's, ssd's, fans, ram, etc use relatively very little power compared to the graphics cards. This is why we can generally recommend a psu based on the gpu config alone. 

 

Oh ok!! Thanks!! ... i was looking at some 780 TIs... i want to get either the reference one or 780 ti classy... can it still handle 2 classified overclocked??

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It would run but with very little headroom unless it was a very, very baller 750w psu. 

Thinking CX750M from Corsair with 2 gtx770s

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Oh ok!! Thanks!! ... i was looking at some 780 TIs... i want to get either the reference one or 780 ti classy... can it still handle 2 classified overclocked??

There's not that much of a difference between the 780 Ti's...or generally any different version of the same gpu for that matter.

Thinking CX750M from Corsair with 2 gtx770s

That works fine. Then again, they're 770's and not 780 ti's.

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