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earthwatts 430 enough?

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zalazin

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Q6600 quad Gigabyte GA-P35-D3SL, 4 ea 1GIG DD2 800, 2 ea WD200 HD, Liteon dvd burner, Nvidia 8800 GT, Win XP Pro/Vista dual boot

I am upgrading from 1 to 2 HD and from 8400 GS to 8800 gt. And going from an Antec Basiq 350 to Earthwatts 430, Will the Earthwatts 430 handle this?
 
It should work; although I'd personally prefer to have a little more leeway, I don't see the system breaking 300W.
 
My roommate has similar specs to yours. He's running an Antec 430W truepower trio. The Earthwatts is a little better so I'm sure it'll be fine.
 
damn it! wish someone had told me the same thing, I went for the antec sonata III with the 500w psu. Could have saved about 30 bucks and not had to deal with the ugly lock int he front!.
 
I am running a 430w Earthwatts in the q6600 build in my signature, it's running 24/7 and I am really impressed by this $50 psu.

I still want to get my hx520 back from RMA, I am still waiting to hear back from Corsair.
 
430W? Depends on how much you plan to overclock that quad, really... I'd say probably it'd be fine for 3.0GHz, but if you want to push to 3.4 or 3.6, you might need a 550W or bigger.
 
I've ran my q6600 at 3.6ghz (9x400mhz 1.45v) on this 430w earthwatts and it ran prime95 small ffts for over 14 hours, I also played a few hours of COD4 and a 3dmark06(15026) before I went back to my 9x334mhz overclock.
 
doubt it. 400w would power a quad@3.6 without effort as long as he isn't running a ton of hdd's.
 
I'm running q6600 at 3.2ghz with 8800GT 24/7 on 400W PSU. Measured at the outlet it consumes 250W.
 
zalazin said:
system specs
Q6600 quad Gigabyte GA-P35-D3SL, 4 ea 1GIG DD2 800, 2 ea WD200 HD, Liteon dvd burner, Nvidia 8800 GT, Win XP Pro/Vista dual boot

I am upgrading from 1 to 2 HD and from 8400 GS to 8800 gt. And going from an Antec Basiq 350 to Earthwatts 430, Will the Earthwatts 430 handle this?
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Sure, it should handle that just fine.
 
Logan321 said:
430W? Depends on how much you plan to overclock that quad, really... I'd say probably it'd be fine for 3.0GHz, but if you want to push to 3.4 or 3.6, you might need a 550W or bigger.
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eh, I highly doubt an additional 4-600 MHz is not going to require an additional 120+watts
 
My rig with P35-DS3L, Q6600 o/ced to 3.4ghz, 4x4GB G-Skill PC6400, 2x500GB Seagate 7200.11, 2xSamsung SH-203B DVD-R/RW, 9800GTX o/ced to the max, and lots and lots of fans only pulls around 320w measured at the wall, and that's under full load.

I'd think the OP would do fine with the 430w Antec Earthwatts seeing as it's a fairly solid Seasonic design. There isn't a whole lot of room for expansion, but then again maybe he doesn't need any. :p
 
Should be fine. Not sure why people always think you need huge 750-1000 Watt PSU's. My Corsair 450VX was a great investment and will probably continue to serve me very well in the future.
 
430w is enough for that system. I had a similar setup but with a 500w thermaltake, worked with no problem.
 
Fair enough... some power supplies outputs are less stable at 80%+ load, which a Q6600 @ 3.6GHz, plus 4 gigs ram, plus a couple HDs, plus a 8800GT will probably push a 430W past.

I prefer to have my power supply loaded between 60-75% of max... not that you have to do that, just the closer you run it to the wire, the more chance of failure over time. Power supplies going bad can wipe out your whole system if you're unlucky.

My rig using that power supply calc yielded 451W... which doesn't make it. That is with 3 sata HDs, 2 DDR2 sticks, 8800GT 512meg, high end mobo, Q6600 @ 3.6GHz 1.5V (utilization 100% TDP), DVD-RW, 5x 120mm fans, front bay card reader, and 4 USB powered devices (mouse, keyboard, webcam, gamepad)

You need to make sure you count EVERYTHING... I know this is worse case scenerio but I like some breathing room...
 
Just thought I'd post this... I had a client today with a failed PSU, ended up taking out the board and CPU. It was a Raidmax however.
 
Since I started this thread I picked up a Themaltake 600 watt supply from Radioshack on sale,model W0121RU pure power 2.0. The max load on 12v1 is 14 A and 12v2 is 15A
28A on the 5V and 30 on the the 3.3 rail. Anyone know anything about this psu? Would it be better than the 430?
 
The Antec Earthwatts 430W PSU is still the better choice since it has 30A on the +12V rail while that Thermaltake PSU has only 29A on the +12V rail. When a lower wattage PSU has more power than a higher wattage PSU on the +12V rail, that's a sure sign of that higher wattage PSU's low quality.

So stick with the Earthwatts.
 
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