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Not enough is it...

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RushW2

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Antec Black Tower (SLK3650-BQE)
Antec 350 Watt Smart Power Supply
ASUS K8V-X Motherboard (4 high speed USB 2.0 ports, Marvell gigabit ethernet adapter, AGP 8X, VIA K8T800 Chipset)
AMD Athlon 64 3400+ (socket 754)
1 GB Mushkin DDR400 High Performance RAM (PC3200 400MHz)
320GB Western Digital 7200 RPM 8MB Cache Hard Drive
Pioneer A09 DVD+/-RW
256MB GeForce 6800 GT AGP 8X Video Card
8 in 1 Internal Flash Card Reader
3.5 Floppy Drive
Windows XP Professional
3 case fans

350w isnt enough is it?
 
I wouldn't do it. My Antec True 430 is barely enough for my 3500 / 6800gt. If I overclock at all it gives up on me.
 
That 6800GT will eat up the +12V rail, along with the CPU. I'd look for something better.
 
Thats excatly what i was thinking.

Its really for a friend...he bought that comp off Ebay and it comes with that PS and he keeps telling me it will be fine. Ill have to show him this thread.

What do you think he should get...450w - 500w to be safe?
 
Watts don't mean much these days. Try reading the stickies at the top of this Power Supplies forum for some pointers.

I'll just throw some links out there for you to consider. Don't be fooled by the rated wattage of some of these units, they have their output power concentrated in all the right places, perfect for use by an A64 or a high-end graphics card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817104936
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103937
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103928 (very good deal at $80!)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817104934
 
Thanx for the links.

I just want some hard evidence to throw at him showing him that the PC it comes with will get eaten up.
 
I have similar specs, ultra instead and 3200+ @ 3400+ speeds, and a 450watt smartpower compared to ur smaller 350watt..I am having some problems lately, comp freezes when I try to access my hard drives, it will just freeze up etc etc...and I can barely overlcock anything without stability problems, especially when I overclock a tiny bit of the videocard and the cpu @ the same time, I will get problems. So the 450w is barely enough for my system while ur gt is virtually an ultra with lower clocks and ur cpu is faster, I woulod have to say a 350watt would not be enough @ all. maybe if it was a truepower, but I wouldn't even count on that.
 
_Korruption_ said:
Watts don't mean much these days. Try reading the stickies at the top of this Power Supplies forum for some pointers.

I'll just throw some links out there for you to consider. Don't be fooled by the rated wattage of some of these units, they have their output power concentrated in all the right places, perfect for use by an A64 or a high-end graphics card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817104936
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103937
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103928 (very good deal at $80!)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817104934
Click to expand...

O yah, svc.com has the truepower 2 430 watt for 73 bucks :) better deal than newegg's.
 
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