PIE - Perfection In Execution

[WhiteFireDragon]

3 x 460's might work out nice also depending on exactly the PPD they average. 3 x 40,000 - 50,000 = 120,000 - 150,000ppd and wattage should be ~450w. I think 240's avg 18,000 or so and 80w = 108,000ppd and 480w; the price is great though with some of them being $40 after rebate = $240.

the gt240's don't even draw close to 80w, mine only uses 38w. i used kill-a-watt and used a bunch of math to figure this out haha. the results were pretty consistent within 2watts. so 6 of these pull only about 240w, roughly just a little more than a single 295 or 480.

evga and pny gt 240 are singe slot and i have a spare 1kw silverstone strider plus psu with 80+ silver efficiency just need to find the budget to get the i7, xpower, 6 gt 240 and a cooler for the i7.

you won't even need close to 1kw for this i7 rig, i honestly think a 550w will still give you a small headroom. a decent OC'ed i7 ~250w, and 6 gt240 ~250w for a total of 500w AC from the wall. but this is AC current, PSU's are rated for DC current, so this is roughly only 400w DC assuming you only have an 80% efficient PSU. i would save that 1kw PSU for something more needy

i already have a evga p55 ftw that can hold 3 dual slot gpu nicely but i might also just wait for the gts 450 to come which 3 of them would cost me 450$ versus 550$ for 6 gt 240 and could get around 90k-120k ppd or wait even longer for some gt 440 that would cost around 100$ and if there is some single slot i could buy 6 of those and have a even better ppd.

i hate playing the waiting game for CPU's and GPU's. i'm not sure when the when the gts450 or gt440 will come out, if it even ever will come out. there's never any sales on gt240's in canada? i might be able to help you out getting some of the deals here. they're typically $30-50 after savings. yesterday, there was an evga single slot one for $15 haha.

and mikeb12 ... I think your Overall pie slice will be changing later today ... you move right, I'll go left, no one needs to get hurt

wfd ... you didn't think I'd give up without a fight did you
that is a real nice cruncher you built

oh you just got lucky buddy. i was out the whole day yesterday until midnight, and since i was gone, someone in the house just turned that machine off because it was too loud . whenever i'm home, i guard it haha.