Go back 12 months to the year 2005, when we all had funky lime green flares and Starsky & Hutch was on TV... it would have been questionable for all but extreme overclockers with SLI or CF to need a 700 watt power supply. Fast-forward to the present day, with freely available expensive energy, cheap fights (bungee!), and peace on earth (disclaimer: exclude 99% of earth), and I find myself recommending above and beyond 600 watt units more and more often. This situation certainly hasn't been helped by the inauguration of the 8800 series from Nvidia, and will simply get worse with ATI/AMD/DAAMIT's R600. It really is more important than ever for those running fast systems to treat the power supply with respect, and stay away from those nasty 650W triple fanned units with gold grills and a disco globe, that was so 2005, move on!
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