Power Consumption Question

[IceBrewedBeer]

Ok, so I'm building a PC for a friend and I decided an AMD system would be suffice. He's gonna game on it and I figured the X2 line is fine for someone on a tight budget.

Anyhow, I was wondering if a Corsair 450W PSU would be fine for the system I picked out for him. I used the eXtreme Power Supply Calculator Lite v2.5 and it came out to about 390W. I'm not sure how accurate that is, maybe you guys can fill me in.

He's NOT going to OVERCLOCK the system at all. Besides what's on the newegg wish list, will be a standard IDE DVD reader drive, a IDE CD burner drive, 80GB IDE Harddrive and a Linksys Wireless PCI card.

http://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/wishlist/PublicWishDetail.asp?WishListNumber=6221547

Any help is greatly appreciated. Oh and opinions on the build are welcome.

EDIT: Thanks for the typo point out Danny

 

[Dangman]

You have a typo. There is no Corsair 420W PSU. Did you mean the 450W? Anyway, the 450VX is plenty of power for him.

From what I can see it's pretty accurate.

Ditch that 7950GT. The x1950Pro is pretty close to it in performance and it's only $137:
Sapphire 100176L Radeon X1950PRO 256MB PCI-E Video Card - $137

Also for $5 more, you can get DDR2 800 RAM:
G.SKILL F2-6400CL5D-2GBNQ 2 x 1GB DDR2 800 RAM - $75

Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong but AMD systems actually benefit from going with faster RAM.

More questions:
- What's his total budget?
- What size monitor does he have?
- What games is he planning to play?

 

[IceBrewedBeer]

He's playing on a 20 inch Westinghouse LCD, 1400x1050 resolution.

Most games he'll play is....Unreal 2K4/3, Crysis, Orange Box, FEAR, Bioshock, HL2 Mods.

 

[troisanh]

i would go with Danny's suggestions, makes much more sense and the VX450 is more than sufficient.

 

[Dangman]

I think the x1950Pro should be all right for him if he's willing to turn down a few settings here and there. So everything looks good to me.

 

[engiNURD]

Yes, go with DDR2-800. The AM2 platform performance scales well with higher speed ram, but stock cpu. You don't even need the Corsair... the $50 XClio Goodpower will suffice, but you do get better quality with the VX450.