PSU for Athlon 64

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Will a 4 year old Enermax 350W PSU be sufficient to power an Athlon 64 2800+
754pin CPU? Or will I need something more powerful for this particular
processor?

I'm planning to combine this with:

Asus K8V-SE Deluxe motherboard
2 x 512Mb PC 3200 RAM
2 x 200Gb SATA HDD
GeForce 6800 Pro or ATI Radeon X800 graphics card
DVD Writer
....and about 5 x 8cm fans

Cheers
 
Will a 4 year old Enermax 350W PSU be sufficient to power an Athlon 64 2800+
754pin CPU? Or will I need something more powerful for this particular
processor?

I'm planning to combine this with:

Asus K8V-SE Deluxe motherboard
2 x 512Mb PC 3200 RAM
2 x 200Gb SATA HDD
GeForce 6800 Pro or ATI Radeon X800 graphics card
DVD Writer
...and about 5 x 8cm fans

Cheers
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It may run for awhile but it's undersized for that system.
Some ~ 350W range (like Fortron) have a higher true capacity
relative to the Enermax too, plus at 4 years old, it's about
the right age to have came from an era when 12V amperage
wasn't as significant, is most likely biased for more 5V
amps. Initially several PSU manufacturers put 12V 4-pin
connectors on their PSU to meet ATX2.03 spec but hadn't yet
changed much else internally.
 
Will a 4 year old Enermax 350W PSU be sufficient to power an Athlon 64 2800+
754pin CPU? Or will I need something more powerful for this particular
processor?

I'm planning to combine this with:

Asus K8V-SE Deluxe motherboard
2 x 512Mb PC 3200 RAM
2 x 200Gb SATA HDD
GeForce 6800 Pro or ATI Radeon X800 graphics card
DVD Writer
...and about 5 x 8cm fans

Cheers
Click to expand...

I did some calculations of power usage at some websites that have such
things at their site and sure its rough but mine came out sort of
marginal - AMD 939 /ATI 800xl / 3 HDs at the time and two burners .
Itll probably run but it may be marginal . Im not sure how power
hungry the 6800s are but I remember everyone claiming they used a fair
amount, I remember initially they had some outrageously high figures
that were resommended but they lowered them but they were still fairly
high. I was using a 400 Antec smart power PS and the 12 volt reading
was a bit low. I switched to a 500 watt recently and it maybe my
imagination but it does seem to be running a bit better, The readings
are much higher and some of the little problems I had seem to be gone
, some glitches in usage though that may be just the usual head
tricks that happen when you change parts and you convince yourself
things are different or better.

I maybe wrong but I think Ive read the ATIs used less power.
 
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