Power Supply Group Test : Roundup

Quote: Back in February this year we did our first PSU group test and it was hugely popular – so here we are with a slightly smaller follow up to see what the latest generation of power supplies have to offer. This time round we are glad to welcome a few new names as well as some established ones that we missed out last time. With high-end graphics cards and SLI becoming increasingly popular and dual-core processors moving in to the home market it is more important than ever to have a good quality PSU inside your computer. For example, nVidia has once again bumped the PSU requirements for SLI with the 7800GTX and 7800GT to no less than 500W. However, in practice though you don’t need that much as Evesham proved with the Axis 64 Decimator 78 which managed just fine with a 420W power supply. This is of course dependant on how much other power draining hardware you have in your PC, but you’re far better off having a good quality 450W PSU rather than a cheap 600W PSU.

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