Do I need MORE power?

[TruthSeeker]

I have a Cooler Master Stacker ST-01 computer case.

I have a Seasonic 650W AND a Enermax 430W power supplies. They are both hooked up right now to my system (it has two places for hard drives in it).

I currently have the 650W powering the following components: motherboard, video card, cpu fan and a couple DVD drives.

I have the 430W powering 4 hard drives, a DVD drive and 3 fans.

I am going to be upgrading to a i7 setup with one solid state drive, 6GB RAM, two 1.5T hard drives, a GTX 280 video card, and three DVD drives with 4 case fans.

Do I currently have enough power for all of that or do I need MORE!!! (he,he)

 

[Deleted member 89137]

why dont you just get one powersupply and call it a day?

 

[Shambler]

Post this into the Power Supply forum. They will hook you up.

 

[Zero82z]

Wrong forum.

Please post the specific model numbers of your PSUs. I have a feeling that they'll be older non +12V weighted designs, in which case you'll probably be better off upgrading to a more modern PSU. But we'll see once you provide more information.

 

[E.T]

I have a Seasonic 650W

I am going to be upgrading to a i7 setup with one solid state drive, 6GB RAM, two 1.5T hard drives, a GTX 280 video card, and three DVD drives with 4 case fans.

~180W for GPU, you didn't specify CPU but let's give it highish 100W and we're around mighty 350W load.
You can throw in those four old HDDs just for fun with that Seasonic.

Please post the specific model numbers of your PSUs. I have a feeling that they'll be older non +12V weighted designs

Seasonic hasn't made archaic PSUs since they became archaic and they have only one 650W model, S12E+ with 52A output and as UL Level 6 PSU it doesn't care from what cables you're drawing it.

 

[Zero82z]

Seasonic hasn't made archaic PSUs since they became archaic and they have only one 650W model, S12E+ with 52A output and as UL Level 6 PSU it doesn't care from what cables you're drawing it.

Some of Seasonic's older S12 PSUs had slightly anemic +12V rails. I don't know offhand if there was a 650W model, but I asked just to make sure. If the PSU in question does have 52A on the +12V rail like modern Seasonic 650W units, then it'll be fine for this purpose.