I strongly recommend that you change your order by not including LG optical drives. They are not reliable. I recommend Plextor or ASUS.


The reason why it is over kill is because the 1000 watt power supply will hurt efficiency. Also it will hurt the budget even if you do not have one. Third 1000 watt power supplies are not as good as power supply models under 1000 watts, so you are getting something worst than you really think you are getting. A lot of 1000+ watt power supplies does not perform in tests. The tests show that a lot of 1000+ watt power supplies have a higher ripple voltage and not as tight voltage regulation compared to models that are under 1000 watts. Quality power supplies should have the lowest ripple voltage and tight voltage regulation in order for the device they are powering be reliable and stable.

I suggest consider a Seasonic S12D-850 and include a kill-a-watt meter to measure the wattage being consume by your computer. If the wattage is getting close under heavy load, you can always upgrade the power supply to higher wattage model or just add a power supply to power certain devices.

The CoolMaster 1250 watt power supply model RS-C50-EMBA-D2 is not sufficient to handle your video card because there is no way of knowing what rail or rails that the video card will be lurching on. A six rail power supply means nothing if one rail can not deliver 40 amperes which your video card requires. The Seasonic S12D-850 can easily handle your video card with out any problems and with out any worries if one of the rails are sufficient because both rails can handle 40 amperes of current. Anandtech has reviewed and try pushing the Seasonic S12D pass 100% of load which it can do just fine and of course of more noise. However, I do not recommend running any power supply pass 100%, but it is good to know that a power supply can handle it when the need calls for it.

I will mention this concern tomorrow when I am writing the check. Thanks for your recommendations.

Sorry, but I could not find enough information about that power supply to determine its suitability for the system. The system builder said he had never heard of Seasonic.

With a printed copy of your post in hand, I thoroughly grilled the system builder face-to-face about the power supply. We changed it to the Thermaltake w0315ru 850 Watt PSU. The Thermaltake provides up to 62 Amps on a single 12 Volt rail. It includes 2 each of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power plugs, as well as a pair of 8-pin to 6-pin plug adapters.

Hi Linux questions.org members,
Hello Telengard,

I got this forum while googling for linux, I am completely new in this Linux field. I need help about installation in Linux OS & hardware drivers. Right now I'm having Vista home premium.

About my system,

Intel I7 920 2.67 Ghz Processor
EVGA ATX X58 SLI LE Intel Motherboard
EVGA GTX 275 896MB 448-bit DDR3 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
Patriot Extreme Performance 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1600
1TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Western Digital SATA Hard disk 7200RPM
Corsair 850W ATX Modular Power Supply
LG Blu-ray Burner + Samsung 22x DVD±RW Burner with Dual/Double Layer Support (two disk drives)
Rosewill internal Memory card reader 19-in-1
Samsung 23” High Glossy Black 23" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor
Wireless Network PCI card 802.11b 54MBps
Logitech Wired Ultra-thin Illuminated Keyboard
Altech 2.1 computer speakers - old

I brought this to my own interest. I think I overbuild it for my use. The complete setup costs me around $2000. I build this just one week back and its working great. I'm little unsatisfied with the price, but I feel proud to have a desktop like this. It took me more than a month to do research in CPU parts. If you suggest any modifications in this setup, feel free to do.

Well, I downloaded Kubuntu 9.04 version OS. I am waiting to install, as I need help in finding the compatable linux drivers, for this configuration. Can any one help me regarding this? Please provide me with download links if available.

Thank you,

What drivers do you think you need?

The only driver I expect you to need is the non open source nVidia driver.

Try the kubuntu liveCD and see if it will get into GUI mode with the open source nv driver. If not, there is a boot time option to use the vesa driver instead, which almost certainly will work.

After you have kubuntu installed and working with either the nv driver or the vesa driver, you can switch to the nvidia driver.

I don't know what distribution specific support ubuntu has for downloading/installing the nvidia driver. Maybe some ubuntu user will jump in and answer that detail.

If you get the nvidia driver installer direct from nvidia and run it, the first time it will tell you what packages (such as kernel headers, etc.) are missing and needed before the driver will instal. It's then very easy to get those with Synaptic (the GUI package manager in Ubuntu). Then rerun that nvidia driver installer and the driver will be installed and should work fine at least until you get a Linux kernel upgrade. Then you probably need to rerun the installer, which is pretty easy.

So if there isn't a distribution specific way to install that, it really isn't too bad to use the copy direct from nvidia. But if there is a distribution specific way, that will be easier (will manage all the dependancies for you) and will upgrade automatically when the kernel does.