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How big of a power supply do I need
A7N8X-E Dlx board.
Athlon XP 3000
two HD,
DVD,
CD Burner,
Zip Drive,
Floppy,
ATI 9600

Thanks for any advice
 
How big of a power supply do I need
A7N8X-E Dlx board.
Athlon XP 3000
two HD,
DVD,
CD Burner,
Zip Drive,
Floppy,
ATI 9600

Thanks for any advice
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I'm using an Antec Smartpower 400W...
A7N8X v2
Barton 2800+ (@ upto 2378MHz speeds)
2-HDD, DVDRW, CDRW, Floppy
Audigy 2
ATI 9800 pro

No problems,
Ed
 
Power requirements



Component Requirement Line(s) Used

High-wattage AGP card 20-50W +3.3V
Average PCI card 5W +5V
Cached SCSI controller PCI card 20-25W +3.3V and
+5V
Floppy drive 5W +5V
10/100 NIC 4W +3.3V
50x Atapi CD-ROM 10 - 25W +5V and +12V
12x Atapi DVD-ROM 10 - 25W +5V and +12V
12x / 10x / 40x SCSI CD-R/RW 20W +5V and +12V
SCSI CD-ROM 12W +5V and +12V
RAM 8W per 128MB +3.3V
Ultra2 SCSI PCI card 5W +3.3V and
+5V
7200rpm IDE hard drive 5 - 15W +5V and +12V
7200rpm Ultra2 SCSI hard drive 24W +5V and +12V
10,000rpm SCSI drive 10 - 40W +5V and +12V
Motherboard (without CPU or RAM) 20 - 30W +3.3V and
+5V
Typical Pentium II 30W +5V
1GHz Pentium III 34W +5V
1.7GHz Pentium 4 65W +12V
1.4GHz AMD Athlon 70W +12V

try adding up all the power requirements according to this table and buy one
that exceeds those specs
peter
 
MeNotHome said:
How big of a power supply do I need
A7N8X-E Dlx board.
Athlon XP 3000
two HD,
DVD,
CD Burner,
Zip Drive,
Floppy,
ATI 9600

Thanks for any advice
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Unfortunately, all PSUs are not equal, and just looking at the overall
wattage is not sufficient. It is the 12v rail which is the most important
for today's cpus.

Have a look here :

http://www.firingsquad.com/guides/power_supply/
 
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