fortron 350 blue storm enough?

Im building my friend a comp and he's kind of on a budget in the psu department. The rest of the parts that I got him were:

MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum NF3 Ultra
AMD64 3000+ Winchester
NEC ND-3520A
Seagate 120GB SATA II W/NCQ (I know ncq is useless now, but it was the only sata drive on mwave since he's doing a willcall"
MSI 6600GT
Case with 3 LED Fans and a free 12" neon light.
Corsair 1x512 Value Series Ram

It shouldn't have any problems powering this rig right? The case comes with some generic 350W psu and I figured a 350 fortron would definitely be much better than that. After reading around the forums, I'm kind of scared now that 350 might not be enough for all that. Does anyone know for sure that it'll be enough for those parts? Thanks.

In my opinion, yes. But I'm not sure how far you'll be able to push it. You're going to have to get Ice Czar to second me, but I feel fairly confident in saying this.

I believe the Blue Storm is ATX 2.0 compliant which means it's got the dual +12V rails (at 15 amps each). From my own personal experiences and reading various reviews about Fortron/Sparkle products, they all seem very capable of exceeding their minimum efficiency rating and are rock solid under load.

takeabao, It wasnt me man
see you tommorow

as far as the topic
technically the 350 isnt a Blue Storm, an accolade reserved for its big brother
its an unusual supply in that it doesnt have the extraneous amps on the under employed +3.3\+5V rail

one of the problems in answering your question is that I dont have actual amp figures for the 6600GT, but even assuming its rather high on the +12V rail, that supply should handle it

your config is also heavily biased towards the +12V rail, which means your likely very good on the +3.3V\+5V rail as well

just remember not to throw that supply into an older rig when cross parting

what you do have to watch is the total wattage, those are rather high draw components
and I roughly estimate your in the 350 watt range for a theoretical maximum (which is additive and not a real world draw) (I also tossed in a few more fans)

worse case senerio I guess to be around 320 watts pegging your CPU and GPU at the same time, when your doing that, try to avoid spinning up the optical

in addition as mentioned FSP tends to underate their supplies
make sure the supply gets plenty of airflow and avoid heavy gaming session in 100 degree rooms and your very likely to be OK

and as always, a UPS is a grand investment in protecting your system and makes the role of any PSU that much easier

Just finished building it, everything seems to be fine. All of the rails are solid and there doesn't seem to be any stability problems even though we haven't stressed it yet. The only problem im worried about is not having any fans in the rear. The case came with two in the front, and one on the side. There's room in the back for a 12cm fan and I told him to get one asap. CPU stayed at around 40 on boot and system was around 20.

thats not all that bad, what was the room temperature?

room must've been like 50-60F, still pretty warm here in Cali.

another slight problem he's been having is that 2d text is kind of blurry. He's running the 67.03 drivers on a 17" sony lcd. Can this be a psu problem?

very unlikely
unless he powering the LCD off the Fortron

yeah just figured it out, he was being stupid and didn't optimize his lcd after installing a vid card. It's all good now