New A64 setup - Antec 430 Watts enough?

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BillL

Hello all

I've now ordered the following components for an A64 based system: -

A64 'Winchester' 3200+ (Retail)
DFI nforce 4 SLi mobo (would like the option of SLi)
Leadtek 6600GT DDR3 PCI-E
Maxtor Diamond Max 250GB SATA HDD

I'll be using the following components from my old system: -

Coolermaster 'Wavemaster' ATX case
2 x 512 PC3200 DIMMS
Seagate IDE 120 GB HDD
Hauppauge PCI TV card
3 x 92 mm fans
Antec TruPower 430 Watt PSU

I would like to try overclocking but apart from the, relatively, slow RAM is
the Antec PSU up to the job of providing sufficient power for the above
system?
I only ask as I've just read the following thread
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=355145 which slates Antec PSU's and
recommends OCZ PSU's (surprise, surprise if I didn't find another forum
which dissed OCZ PSU's!!).

I know its not just a case of 'more watts is always better' but its all
getting a bit confusing!!

TIA

BillL
 
Its a very good PS, tops in quality. A good quality 350 is better than any
cheap 600w and Antec is in the top ten of quality manufactures. I have a
Enermax 350 running a similar system 6 months now.
You have good taste in quality parts.
 
Antec TruPower 430 Watt PSU

I know its not just a case of 'more watts is always better' but its all
getting a bit confusing!!
Click to expand...

I put together a amd64/1gig system that I plan to eventually have a
raid5 system on so I picked up the Antec trupower 550. There wasn't
that much difference in price between the two compared to the
improvement in power.

My old box is right next to the new machine, I came back from
collecting the snail mail and found my old machine rebooting. I was
wondering what happened when the room lights blinked indicating a
brown out which is too common around here. Evidently there was a more
severe blink that caused the old machine with it's antec 350 watt
supply to reboot. The new machine with the 550 watt supply kept on
sailing through it all.

When you look at the back of the two machines, you notice the
difference in the black AC power cords, the 550 unit comes with a big
thick sucker.

Finally, Aopen has downgraded the ram speed on their later bios for my
motherboard. I've been using the 1.11 bios which some considered the
best of the lot at full speed and no problems with 1 gig of mushkin
ram even at a low 2.5 volts.

I'll take the 6'7", 350lb, 25 year, old all pro any day over the
6', 280 lb, 36 year old all pro.
 
BillL said:
Hello all

I've now ordered the following components for an A64 based system: -

A64 'Winchester' 3200+ (Retail)
DFI nforce 4 SLi mobo (would like the option of SLi)
Leadtek 6600GT DDR3 PCI-E
Maxtor Diamond Max 250GB SATA HDD

I'll be using the following components from my old system: -

Coolermaster 'Wavemaster' ATX case
2 x 512 PC3200 DIMMS
Seagate IDE 120 GB HDD
Hauppauge PCI TV card
3 x 92 mm fans
Antec TruPower 430 Watt PSU

I would like to try overclocking but apart from the, relatively, slow RAM
is the Antec PSU up to the job of providing sufficient power for the above
system?
I only ask as I've just read the following thread
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=355145 which slates Antec PSU's
and recommends OCZ PSU's (surprise, surprise if I didn't find another
forum which dissed OCZ PSU's!!).

I know its not just a case of 'more watts is always better' but its all
getting a bit confusing!!

TIA

BillL
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I don't think you'll have any problems with the Antec 430.
I'm running a 3200+ Winchester on an Asus A8V here at 2.4 GHz. 1 Gig PC4000,
2 HD, DVD-ROM, DVD+=RW, old GeForce TI 4200, Zip drive, Floppy drive on an
Antec 400W.
If you're going to overclock, you *may* wind up wanting faster RAM.
 
Thanks for all the feedback, its nice to be told you've got the right
components (thank Harry I didn't think I could get away with modding that
old 286 PSU .... ;o). Yep, I'm not going to be ordering a new PSU unless I
have to.

This is my first DFI board (I'm using a Gigabyte NF2 2.0 at the mo with a
2800+) and my biggest upgrade to date (I've never attempted to update to
update so many components at the same time).

Here's to the first successful POST ..... or they'll be a wailing, a weeping
and a gnashing of teeth!!

Thanks,

BillL
 
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