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Not enough power?

Compfreak999

Limp Gawd
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So i just installed 2 sticks of kingston HyperX DDR ram and took out my 512mb of kingston value ram. (all pc3200 running at pc3200 speeds)

And i seem to have a hit some major erroring. I tried priming 95 (the 2nd option, maxium power consumption and max cpu heat) and it auto restarted. (when two sticks of ram were inside) and i took one out and tried prime again and it works.

Power supply in question is the Antec 350 Watt Smart Blue

All my parts

Amd Athlon 2500+ OCed to 3200+ speeds
2x512 kingston hyperX ram pc3200
1 Cd-RW, 1DVD
Zalman heatsink fan AlCu
msi 5900XT
Audigy 2
A7n8x-E deluxe
Hitachi 180GXP 180GB 7200RPM

Do you guys think im pushing it a bit? thanks for any responses, cause if im really pushing the psu im thinking of going out today and getting a 430 Watt True power
 
well, if all you did was replace the memory, i'd blame that first.

if you want to test, i'd yank the hdd and opticals, remove the sound card and run memtest86
if you get errors, i'd rma the memory
there shouldn't be that large of a power draw difference in just upping the ammount of memory.
 
Grab a voltmeter and take some readings while under load, it's the only way to find out if it's PSU sag or not. Also, as said above, I'd memtest that RAM, just cause it's new doesn't make it perfect ;)
 
Well i replaced it with a antec 430 True power. And changed a few volatages for the ram and cpu. Seems to be stable so far, I called kingston and they said DDR400 isnt supported for this asus board its only suppose to go to DDR333, dunno if thats a big problem, but i hope not. Though i am running horrible timings with this ram :(
 
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