PSU for me

[Bass]

I was just wondering what kind of power suply I need. I'm not very knowledgable about power suplies and such. I have an Asus A7V266-E with an AMD 1700+, NVIDIA Geforce mx440 w\8xAGP, Creative Sound card, Kingston 111 nic,DVD,CD-RW,3-5 fans, and two hard drives, a 60 and a 40 Gig HD. Hopfully I will have four more HD hooked up to the Promise ports.

 

[emogoch]

Up till the 4 extra HDD, I would have said a 300W PSU would be fine. I'm guessing a 350W or 400W will be fine with the extra HDD's in there.

 

[folken]

A nice 300 could probably pull that off but I'd go for a nice 400 just to be on the safe side
Antec, Fortron Source, and Enermax are pretty nice cost/benifit ratio power supplies.

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[RichPLS]

Go with an Antec TruePower 430watt, and it will last and last, and handle next upgrade most likely.
Mine performs like a champ, and it is pulling a big load. Prescott 3200 and ATIX800XT-PE

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[Bass]

My PC is running extreemly hot. The CPU is running up to 160 degrees F. I can't cool it down. even with the five fans going. What is wrong. last time I turned it on, it only took 5-10 minutes to overheat. I have two fans in the front blowing in, two in the back blowing out and a fan on the top blowing in. Am I doing something wrong? I also have an El Cheapo fan on the CPU, but that didn't seem to hurt it untill this week. It overheats just idleing.

<font color=green>W000t<font color=green><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Bass on 08/09/05 08:48 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[fate]

Your top fan that's blowing in the wrong direction gusted the heatsink off the cpu?

 

[Bass]

I'll try turning the top fan around. I would like to try an air duct on it. would that be a good idea? I don't realy want to do water cooling because it will probably get messy and I will forget to change the water after a while. Would an Intel heat sink and fan work on my AMD 1700+? It just uses thermal compound to hold on to the CPU. I think, there is no bracket or anything.

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<font color=green>W000t<font color=green><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Bass on 08/09/05 04:22 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Bass]

I got a 500w PSU, I hope that it will last me for a while. THNX everyone.

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