Power and the NVIDIA "G80"

The marketing material included with the card claims NVIDIA requires at least a 450W power supply for a single GeForce 8800GTX, and 400W for the 8800GTS. Top tier vendors in Taiwan have already confirmed with DailyTech that GeForce 8800 cards in SLI mode will likely carry a power supply “recommendation” of 800W. NVIDIA’s GeForce 7950GX2, currently the company’s top performing video card, carries a recommendation of 400W to run the card in single-card mode.

There will be no more “wimpy” PSU’s if you wish to SLI a few 8800 cards… regardless of whether it’s the GTX or GTS. 800W for just the GPUs is hardcore, no matter which angle you look at it. In that instance, your -only- real choice for absolute safety would be a 1.1KW power supply. Ouch.