Is my Powersupply too small?

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I have an antec true550 that I'm using and I haven't had problems yet. I'm wondering if I should get something bigger?

Components are:
2 * athlon-mp 2000+
2 * LSI-00042
2 * 500G wd in raid1
2 * 750G in raid0 (temporary backups only)
2+1 * 200G in raid1 (boot)
5 * 400G in raid5
4 * hot swap cages:

My Killowatt meter is measuring no more than 275W real going into the wall at system spinup, however that doesn't give me an idea how close to the limit I am on each rail. The sticker says:
5V - 40A
12V - 30A
3.3V - 32A
 
Antec's are not know for quality PSUs.
I'd say that'll likely work, but with so many hard drives you should look at a PC&C or a CorsairHX620
 
I have posted here and other forums that I have only ever owned 2 antechs, and they blew up the computers (fried mobos and cpus). I find antechs to be cheap and unreliable.
 
I have used Antec for many years. They are solid quality units. Not let a few bad ones change your mind.

People have a tendancy to have one go bad on them and then the whole company sucks..

Every company has a few bad ones here and there. And Antec is no worse than any other. They really are a great PS. You wont have issues with what you have currently..Should run that system just fine..:D
 
gigabyte1024 said:
Antec's are not know for quality PSUs.
I'd say that'll likely work, but with so many hard drives you should look at a PC&C or a CorsairHX620
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bigredcat said:
I have posted here and other forums that I have only ever owned 2 antechs, and they blew up the computers (fried mobos and cpus). I find antechs to be cheap and unreliable.
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Mine's running on it's fourth year right now...antec used to make amazing PSUs but they have dropped their standards a bit. Their PSUs used to be as reliable as the corsair HX series are today (maybe even more). But it's true that antec has had a lot of issues with their psu's the past year and a half. I think it started with the psu that was shipped w/ the P180 a while ago. A lot of problems were reported about the psu failing on 5v I think it was. I've stayed away from antec when looking for PSUs today. look towards enermax, corsair, tagan, pc power and cooling, or silverstone (just naming a few).
 
I'm sure the Athlon-MP 2000+ CPU's are powered off the 5v rail.
That being so the the older PSU with the larger 5v rail than 12v rail is better suited to that system than a new PSU which has a larger 12v than 5v.

Luck ........ :D
 
Using my infra-red temp gauge with the case open, the surface of the top of the power supply is about 115F (46c). This worries me. Does that sound hot to anyone else?
 
46C?? That's one hot PSU!

gigabyte1024 said:
Antec's are not know for quality PSUs.
I'd say that'll likely work, but with so many hard drives you should look at a PC&C or a CorsairHX620
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I have never tried a newer antec power supply but my true430 has been working perfectly for three years.
 
invalidbuffalo said:
46C?? That's one hot PSU!



I have never tried a newer antec power supply but my true430 has been working perfectly for three years.
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ya they used to be a really reliable company. More of a set it and forget it type which is a dream psu.
 
46C inside a PSU is not all that worrisome. Usually they hit 50C range. I have an Antec True Power II 550W powering:

Martin

Yes, I have cleaned up the cables since that picture.
 
Depends on if you're using a motherboard monitor program to measure your case temps or have an actual thermistor inside the case measuring temps.

For a motherboard monitor, 46 isn't high. But motherboard monitor's ambient temp readings are always high. When I have a PC that supposedly 45C in software, a thermistor will tell me that the intake of the PSU is actually sucking in 35C air.
 
Seems like he was talking about the actually casing on the power supply with an infrared thermometer.
 
YOU get them that way all of the time because YOU run the power supply in an incubator sucking in hot air much hotter than it would normally. ;)
 
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