K8V + Athlon 64: power requirements

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If anyone is using the Asus K8V board for the Athlon 64, could you
please post what kind of power supply you are using? Would a 400-watt
PSU be plenty, even with 2 hard drives, 2 CD drives, and 3 sticks of
RAM? I know the Athlon 64 draws a little under 90 watts, but any
firsthand experience with this would be appreciated.

-mathieu
 
me said:
If anyone is using the Asus K8V board for the Athlon 64, could you
please post what kind of power supply you are using? Would a 400-watt
PSU be plenty, even with 2 hard drives, 2 CD drives, and 3 sticks of
RAM? I know the Athlon 64 draws a little under 90 watts, but any
firsthand experience with this would be appreciated.

-mathieu
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Using cheap-ass 400 watt PS, 2 HD, 2 cd drives, and 2 x 512 ddr, and lotsa
usb stuff
and Radeon 9500@9700.

running like a charm !

grtz,

Xander
 
If anyone is using the Asus K8V board for the Athlon 64, could you
please post what kind of power supply you are using? Would a 400-watt
PSU be plenty, even with 2 hard drives, 2 CD drives, and 3 sticks of
RAM? I know the Athlon 64 draws a little under 90 watts, but any
firsthand experience with this would be appreciated.

-mathieu
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More important than the output rating of a given PSU is to ensure you
purchase a quality brand name. Antec, Sparkle/Fortron, and Enermax are among
the better brands. A good quality PSU rated at 400-450W should be plenty,
even with a high-end video card and CPU.
 
Im using a 400 watt and it seems to work ok
2 cds 2DVDs floppy Gig 3200 ddr Case Lights
Wonder remote usb usb hp printer
 
The Athlon64 does *not* "draw a little under 90 Watts".
The current 2 GHz Athlon 64 draws about 56 Watts.
Motherboard designers were told to provide for a cpu that
draws up to 87.5 Watts because that is what the Athlon 64
is expected to draw when AMD eventually produces a 2.8 GHz
chip.
 
If anyone is using the Asus K8V board for the Athlon 64, could you
please post what kind of power supply you are using? Would a 400-watt
PSU be plenty, even with 2 hard drives, 2 CD drives, and 3 sticks of
RAM?
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Yes. I am Using an Enermax EG-365AX-VE FMAX (G), whcih supplies 353W.
My system contains 2 HDs, 1 CD-RW drive, 1 DVD/CD-RW combo, a Gforce 4
Ti 4200, a SB Audigy, an Ethernet card (yes, these are unnecessary)
and 1 512MB ECC PC2700 DIMM. Currently it uses 120W. The highest
consumption I have measured was slightly over 160W. So yes, 400W is
plenty.

- anton
 
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