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Replace Aria PSU

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Dear HardForum readers and posters

I'm the happy owner of a heavily modded Antec Aria - blow holes, sidefans, PSU-fan replacement and so on. It's based on a MSI Micro-ATX 939 motherboard, AMD 64-3200 (Clawhammer), 1 GB DDR-SDRAM, Liteon DVD-CD combo, a 160GB 7200 Maxtor disc, an external (USB2) Maxtor 250 GB disc and a Nvidia 6600GT card. The latter is the one I wish to replace, but I'm uncertain if I'm able to draw enough juice from the standard Antec 300W psu for this purpose? Seen people with a similar setup who uses a 7800GT card without problem. Could I replace the Aria-specific PSU - eager to know if anyone has done it?

Cheers,
Svend
 
This is a very good PSU, I use it in both of my rigs.Changing out the PSU is as easy as turning a few screws and unplugging the old and plugging in the new.
 
I replaced a motherboard in an Aria yesterday in fact. Taking out the PSU is easy but I do not think it'll be easy to use standard ATX power supply. The bottom part of the Aria PSU is stepped to clear the standard boxed cooler for most processors. Before you buy anything, find an old ATX PSU to test fit or find a friend that'll let you borrow one.
 
Thanks for the replies. Yes, PCMusicGuy, the Arias PSU are very specific. This is how http://www.flickr.com/photos/26434707@N00/200159856/ it looks today. As you can see my CPU-fan is not large (I use AMDs standard) since I've created good airflow with 2 80mm silent fans on each side of the Aria. Do you have any recommendations for a PSU that would fit?

/Svend
 
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