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The warranty for the award-winning Silencer Series, formerly sold with a 3-year commitment, will be stepped up to 5-years, while the warranty length for the maximum-performance Turbo-Cool Series will be extended from it's current 5-year commitment to a full 7-year warranty.

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The warranty for the award-winning Silencer Series, formerly sold with a 3-year commitment, will be stepped up to 5-years, while the warranty length for the maximum-performance Turbo-Cool Series will be extended from it's current 5-year commitment to a full 7-year warranty.

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Nice huh? Depending on what you get 7 year warranty :) I would recommend either this PSU or this one.

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750W Continuous @ 40°C (825W Peak)
Up to 90% (10dB) Less Noise per Watt
NVIDIA SLI Certified (Dual 8800 GTX)
High Efficiency Rating (83%); .99 Active PFC
Rock-Solid, Super-Clean DC Output
Automatic Fan Speed Control Circuit

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Alright but how much are you able to spend? I want to find the best PSU for you within your budget.

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face facts GTR35, if a power supply's good it'll be "expensive". You should always take great care in choosing a power supply. If you're short on funds downgrade your other components, never the PSU. Can you get an OCZ StealthXStream from any of those stores? They're quite cheap, quite well made and will provide sufficient power for most gaming PCs...

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@GTR35

Sorry GTR I spent about 30-45 minutes cruising the sites you posted and didn't see anything, but that doesn't mean that nothings there. So I will give you some pointers for locating a video card. If you ever plan on running two cards in SLI I recommend you buy a PSU that can supply the amount of power needed. A single card like the one you said your getting (8800 GT) requires 22 amps, while running two cards in tandem will require both cards to have a 24 amps supply line. So when your PSU shopping check the specs and they should list a spec labeled +12v thats the cable for the videocard(s). A PSU with multiple +12v power supplies will have them listed as +12v(1), +12v(2), etc. So a PSU listing +12v(1) through +12v(4) would have 4 supply lines for videocards. It's a useless feature since I would bet money that you won't be running quad graphics cards. So if your only going to be running one videocard and never plan to do a SLI/dual video card setup than look for a PSU that has a +12v rating of at least 22 amps. If you plan to ever do a SLI setup look for a PSU with a +12v rating of at least 24 amps.

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I have this PSU. I refreshed my memory by reading the paperwork that came with my PSU and it explains it to me as, oh and it does have 2 +12v rails I will explain the wording of "powerful single rail" next. The single 60 amps rail means that when running one videocard the entire 60 amps is available to that videocard. When plugging in a second videocard the amperage essentially splits and each card is supplied with a minimum of 34 amps, but the PSU is able to deliver up 44 amps if needed. And you may be like what? It says 30 amps how can it really be 40 amps? Well it's kinda like this bullet point off the page link I posted.

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See the PSU is advertised as a 750 watt unit. So they guarentee that it will always deliver the power ratings on the box but can go above and beyond those if needed. So basically if you require 750 watts to run a machine they guarentee this PSU to deliver it, but if your drop this same PSU in a machine needing 800 watts they say this PSU may be able to deliver but it will come at the cost of efficiency, cost, and the overall life of hte product.

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and as you said looking for a PSU that can supply the amount of power needed...that the difficult part...

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and as you said looking for a PSU that can supply the amount of power needed...that the difficult part...

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Yeah, I know it's hard but you know what you need to get. I wish you the best of luck in finding the PSU you require. I wish I could keep looking for you but I lack the time due to being a full time student working 35+ hours a week to continue looking through all the websites while keeping on top of my schoolwork. So sorry I couldn't help longern and good luck in your search GTR35.

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