4 8800gt's & psu

I'm looking at either a corsair 750w TX or an ePower Zumax 850W to power 4 8800gt's. the corsair is a single rail and the Zumax is 4 rail.

will either of these do just fine? this is a dedicated folder only, no gaming. 1 hdd, 2x2gb sticks of 1000mhz and a Q6600 with liquid cooling.

what do you think?

TIA

Mr. $cary

welcome to XS, I'd choose the corsair over the epower.

Thanx, after all the reading, that's which way i'm going! :)

M$

is a 750w psu really enough to power a q6600 and four 8800 gt at full load 24/7? just asking, i have no idea how much such a rig will consume :)

should be, i used the calculator and it's a 650W, and that's a high estimate. i probably won't have everything i put in to it hooked up. with the 50W TX being a single rail, it should do the trick! we'll see.

M$

Is anything going to be overclocked? You also need to factor in the pump and extra fans.

i would say, it should.
Is the quad folding as well?

8800GT's are not quadSLI supported
EDIT: as for the OP in simple terms, yet it will be fine

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8800GT's are not quadSLI supported
EDIT: as for the OP in simple terms, yet it will be fine

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he wont be putting them in sli if hes folding ;)

I don't really know why someone would waste money on a 24/7 folding machine.

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Originally Posted by Swatrecon_

I don't really know why someone would waste money on a 24/7 folding machine.

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Waste of money? Not even close :rolleyes:

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Waste of money? Not even close :rolleyes:

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pretty much if it just sits there sucking power, only productive to someone else. if it was for a company who needed the processing power, no, not a waste. but just folding proteins? a waste.

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Originally Posted by Swatrecon_

pretty much if it just sits there sucking power, only productive to someone else. if it was for a company who needed the processing power, no, not a waste. but just folding proteins? a waste.

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Do you know what folding does at all? Not a waste one bit.

Yea I kind of agree, what advancements to medicine/treatments has folding brought? I might be in ignorance, but in my opinion it just heats up your house and sucks power. And the Corsair for sure, they are solid units.

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Originally Posted by reberto

Do you know what folding does at all? Not a waste one bit.

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yes, I do know what it does. "POTENTIALLY cures cancer through better understanding of how proteins fold and where the errors that cause cancer come from". I've no problem with folding in general, say with a PC that's not in use, but building one specifically for that, is a COMPLETE and UTTER waste of money.

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Yea I kind of agree, what advancements to medicine/treatments has folding brought? I might be in ignorance, but in my opinion it just heats up your house and sucks power. And the Corsair for sure, they are solid units.

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Folding has brought nothing to the medical community, so for now, it's just a nice idea.

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Folding has brought nothing to the medical community, so for now, it's just a nice idea.

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http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Papers

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Folding has brought nothing significant and conclusive to the medical community, so for now, it's just a nice idea.

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There, I fixed it. Nothing that couldn't have been done through other research.

Like I said. The idea is great, building a rig to suck power and solely do this, is not.

And for the actual question: Corsair FTW.