This setup good for 5-boxing?

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Originally Posted by 'The Ol\'s',index.php?page=Thread&postID=77431#post7743 1

I also found this coolermaster case and it had a combo with a 1k watt powersupply, guess I should take that out then >.<

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I just noticed that you said this above. 1000W is ludicrous for this computer. This system will draw a max of about 300 watts, maybe 350, at the wall socket when it's running full tilt. If I were building this for myself I'd buy a Seasonic 550 watt power supply.

The problem with buying a much bigger power supply than you need is that it runs inefficiently because you're drawing less power than it was designed to deliver. Power supplies reach their peak efficiencies only when they are delivering a certain number of watts, and 300 watts isn't nearly enough for the monster you've picked out.

I tried to find some data about power requirements for this system but now I'm puzzled. AnandTech's test system with the HD4850 drew 227 watts at full load. That sounds like a 550 watt power supply will be plenty (even though your machine will have a second hard drive).

But that same system, in the same test, with two HD4850's in Crossfire drew 335 watts. and AnandTech noted that their 1000 watt power supply wasn't able to supply those 335 watts. Maybe it was because of the way the rails are split up on that power supply, I dunno. I don't know what to make of this.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3338&p=5

Edit: A bunch of comments at the end of that review suggest that the power supply must have been broken.

Okay, I got a 650 watt now.

I think 320 gigs will be enough.

Thanks :thumbsup:

Oh and, is it worth it to buy Vista or just DL it?

Worth it how? If you do that, you're stealing. I've never used stolen software so I can't tell you what to expect.

Don't you need to verify the crap to get updates and such?

Like I said, I always pay for my software, so I never have to worry about verifying anything. I can't tell you what will happen if you download stolen software because I've never done it.

If you don't mind my asking, why are you calling it crap? Windows is a stupendous technological achievement. It's the product of tens of thousands of extremely intelligent people who worked on it for dozens of years starting in the mid 1980s.

We're incredibly lucky -- all of us -- that something like Vista exists and we can use it.

I wasn't calling Vista crap, I couldn't think of the name for the thing you need to verify :pinch:

When Microsoft's website says it's verifying, it's checking to see whether your copy of Windows is legitimate and also, I think, whether it was licensed to the machine it's installed on. But I'm not sure and I don't know if Microsoft has documented exactly what they check for.

Okay.
Any reason for me to get Vista over XP?
XP has a 64 bit version too, so I'm not sure.