new pc specs // should I upgrade my power supply?)

ze2o · Post by **ze2o** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 6:08 pm

I will be running a:

2.17 GHz AMD Athlon XP 2800+
1024 MB 400 MHz Samsung DDR
Geforce 3 Ti 500 (until I figure out what videocard I want)
80 GiG Maxtor HD
+Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 (later)

I have a 350 watt Enermax PSU right now, and was I thinking about using a 450 watt Enermax PSU.

Do you think my PSU will be able to handle the new changes, or should I upgrade to a better PSU as well?

And please post videocard recommendations and links to benchmarks if possible.

Thank you.

+also I will be running the new ASUS A7N8X motherboard.

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 6:57 pm

IMHO, more is always better in a PSU (future upgradability/compatibility and all). You never know, you might want to add a RAID or something one day with four hard drives. Buying more than you need now will save money later on.

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 7:02 pm

I think it will run your system fine,

my high end system in my sing only has 380 and that with a radeon 9800 pro, but liek Burke said if you are gonna upgrade now more the better

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 7:45 pm

I ran a p4 3.06, radeon 9700n pro and 2 x80 gb hd in a raid, a capture card, 2 cdroms, and a hard drive rack off of my 350w enermax...you should be ok unless you feel like i do and want to waste money on a 550w antec true control

ub3r_n00b · Post by **ub3r_n00b** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 2:26 am

PSU is fine unless your worried about rails / overclocking

Vid card -

Radeon 9600 Pro, or 9500 Pro if you can find one
[if your going budget, but if you can afford it]

Radeon 9800 pro

Insteada audigy 2 i would go for a Turtle Bay Santa Cruz...

-Preet

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 5:28 am

A good 350 watter like Enermax...you're fine. Not like you're running several hard drives, and several IDE cd-drives.

I ran my older AMD system for a while on it's 330 watt Enermax. 1900+ overclocked to 2100, 512 megs, GF3 64 megger, two Seagate Cuda drives in RAID 0, cd-rom, internal zip drive, 3x case fans, two fans on the video card. Ran like a champ..still does...sitting in the corner of the room folding.

A good power supply like Antec or Enermax is better than a cheap brand of higher rating. I'll take a 350 Enermax over a 400 or higher of other brands. Power supplies are starting to get waaay overkill lately....odd, since many components these days are consuming less power than they did years ago.

BaLa · Post by **BaLa** » Thu Aug 07, 2003 6:38 am

looks like a pretty nice setup and I agree with what everybody else says, it wont hurt to upgrade your PSU but your PC should run fine..