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John P. Myers
02-08-11, 01:54 AM
This ePower 450W PSU (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817101044) is perfect if you need some more juice for your system cheap. Only $20 for an extra 450W boost to power a GPU or whatever you may have. Where do you put it? It's specially made to fit in a 5.25" drive bay. Beautiful :)

DrPop
02-08-11, 12:53 PM
Wow...that is awesome. I could potentially put 2 of those in the HAF 932 and use them to power one GPU each? That would take some serious strain off the main PSU...

c303a
02-08-11, 01:21 PM
Or with 450 watts, you could probably tap into the wires with some 6 pin GPU power wires and run 2 GPUs from 1 of these.

John P. Myers
02-08-11, 01:53 PM
Or with 450 watts, you could probably tap into the wires with some 6 pin GPU power wires and run 2 GPUs from 1 of these.
It'll run 2 GPUs with the wires it comes with (2 6pins and 2 6+2pins, so it can be configured as either 4 6pins or 2 6pins and 2 8pins). I wouldn't try running 2 5970s with this thing though. 2 5870's un-overclocked at full load would be an 83% load on this PSU, so maybe not that either, since draws above 75% hurt a PSU's efficiency and jack up your power bill. However it does have a molex connection too, so running 1 high-end GPU and 1 hard drive/DVD drive with this would be perfect. 2 5850's would work just fine as well.

Beats the hell out of spending $300 for a 1200W PSU

DrPop
02-08-11, 02:18 PM
Beats the hell out of spending $300 for a 1200W PSU

You're telling me! What I was envisioning was 2 of these in the front of the HAF, seperated by several slots for cooling purposes.
Hooking up a single 5970 to each one when I can afford the GPUs...
Hmm...tempting. ;)