Power for the PC

[CompMan]

Wait. May I ask what you will be doing with 8 gigs of ram.

and if he does get 8gigs he will have to get Vista 64bit right?

 

[Kage]

Well I think XP only sees 4 max, with the 32bit version seeing 3?
I may be wrong though.

 

[freestyler105]

you shud get the 1000watts psu,and tht cud suffice you for future needs.

What future needs? The PSU I recommended is certified to run SLI 8800GTXs. That's basically the most powerful configuration today. Video cards are going to start using less power as well, it's just not efficient to suck up so much power.

 

[Celegorm]

Wait. May I ask what you will be doing with 8 gigs of ram.

and if he does get 8gigs he will have to get Vista 64bit right?

He doesn't have to no. 32 bit OS'es will not see all of it, but the system will still be able to use it. At any rate, both the 8 gigs of RAM, and 1K Watt PSU are both over-kill and a waste of money.

 

[Rudster8161]

you should get like 2gigs of ddr3. speed over size

700 watts be a plenty mate, and no you cant over power a pc

 

[Kage]

Can you buy a motherboard that supports both DDR2 and 3? I saw one in an online shop, but wasn't sure wheather it was a typo or not.

 

[CompMan]

Yeah there is one on newegg. I think Ihuser has it.
But I wouldn't get 8 gigs man lol, like unless you get every software out there and run it at once. But thats unnecessary.