DA750 vs ST85F

[epion2985]

Trying to choose between DA750 and ST85F. In light of the resent review and the single rail on the DA750 I am really leaning towards the DA750. What do you think?

[PaulTa]

depends on your power needs. You might be able to get away with the little brother of the DA750.

Either way, the ST85F doesn't seem like a good choice. On that we can agree.

[epion2985]

I want a little head room to grow. I have water for the gpu and phase for my cpu in my u2-ufo, and while my current goal is an overclocked C2C and an R600 card, in the near future I might upgrade to another R600 card and crossfire, and maybe a quad core cpu.

DA750 seems like a great psu and I just wanted to get the green light from you guys in case there is something wrong with it I don't know or something significantly better out there.

thanks for the input.

[PaulTa]

Originally Posted by epion2985

I want a little head room to grow. I have water for the gpu and phase for my cpu in my u2-ufo, and while my current goal is an overclocked C2C and an R600 card, in the near future I might upgrade to another R600 card and crossfire, and maybe a quad core cpu.

DA750 seems like a great psu and I just wanted to get the green light from you guys in case there is something wrong with it I don't know or something significantly better out there.

thanks for the input.

Damn... sounds like you're plugging in a lot of juicy hardware. I don't know if I'd be off in doing so, but I'd recommend something a little higher up than a 750 watt PSU if you're going to crossfire an R600.

[davidhammock200]

DA750, but if considering R600 SLI, it might be wise to wait.

[epion2985]

Wait for what? Is there something nice on the way?

the DA750 has 60a on the 12v rail. About 220w for cpu and 250w for each card, seems like enough. 850w would be nice, but where do you get a quiet, single rail, psu with good regulation and low ripple

[jonnyGURU]

Why would you consider the ST85F if the DA750 is a possible contender?

Did I miss that part?

It's not like you NEED an 850W... even with the potential of R600 Crossfire.

[epion2985]

Originally Posted by jonnyGURU

Why would you consider the ST85F if the DA750 is a possible contender?

Did I miss that part?

It's not like you NEED an 850W... even with the potential of R600 Crossfire.

Well PaulTa above thinks 750w is not quite enough

[jonnyGURU]

No offense to Paul, but that wouldn't be convincing enough for me.

[SKYMTL]

We still haven't seen the review of the Decathlon so how are we to know if it performs better than the ST85?