Review: Hardware Canucks
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Consumers had been watching the ongoing Wattage Wars between power supply manufacturers with complete awe for the last 18 months. Within that timeframe came the power-hungry 8800GTX and quad core processors and that awe quixkly turned to abject horror when those same consumers realized that they would have to pony up the money for a high-wattage power supply to go along with their system upgrade. As buyers panicked, manufacturers took advantage and began releasing power supplies with insane output specifications. But, let’s throw a little water on the fire by saying you do not NEED an 800W power supply to power a quad core, single GPU system. What you WANT is something totally different and these two power supplies we are looking at today have probably passed through that “want” list at some time.
