I may have told the story about my experience setting up my ECS KN1 Extreme SLI motherboard with a pair of 6800GT video cards in it before but for those that haven't heard it is worth telling again.  Since I was building this system from the ground up I wanted everything to be pretty much to my liking that included a pair of Hitachi 500 GB SATA 150 hard drives a Swiftech Extreme Water Cooling kit, and for the time being the two 6600GT video cards until I found out if SLI was all it was cracked up to be.

Having reviewed a number of quality power supplies over the course of the last 8 or 9 months I though it would be a snap to just pop one of them in and fire it up and be on my to benchmarking the system to see how well it performed.  Boy was I wrong! The first power supply I installed would start the system for about 3 second before it would shut immediately off. (names have been left-out to protect the under-powered)  So I removed that power supply and tried another, this time things started out better but didn't last long, once I began to do anything that stressed the system it would either freeze or re-boot. So this got me to thinking I had 7 power supplies why not try them all. 

After trying all seven of the power supplies three of them would either not boot the system or operated in a unsatisfactory condition.  So what does this have to do with the review we are about to do, I just wanted to impress upon you just how important a power supply can be for your system to operate properly.  It should be noted that all of these power supplies were reviewed and performed fine with a single video card, one hard drive.

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