Is my Antec SmartPower 450W supply enough?

daph4ntom · 13 Feb 2006 at 11:50

Hey all,

I am completely new to the world of OC-in and I have finally got my rig together. I have an Antec SmartPower 2.0 450W PSU is this going to be suitable for OC-in my Opty 146? I am not (well at this stage) going to push it very hard e.g. over 3Ghz but is this PSU going to be enough for just like pushing to around 2.6-2.8Ghz? I know from reading the other threads that if it is not suitable will have to go for something like a Hiper or OCZ Powerstream.

Cheers,
D.

Defcon5 · 13 Feb 2006 at 13:30

It should be. theres only one way to find out!

stigggeh · 13 Feb 2006 at 13:41

i guess it would help to tell everyone what else you have, i mean if you have 20 cdroms and 15 hdd's 40fans, what gfx you have. its going to need more power than if you have one of each.

I have a TP430 and it has been fine, powering dothan+6800GT (both heavily overclocked), 3 hdd's, 2cdroms, 4 fans, lights.

daph4ntom · 13 Feb 2006 at 16:50

My rig

Soz,

Opty 146, 2 x 1GB G.Skill DDR ZX CAS2, DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D,LG Rewriter, 2 x 200GB Maxtor SATA2 DiamondMax Plus 10, Geforce 6600 PCI-E 256mb, maybe another IDE HDD for storage.

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stigggeh · 13 Feb 2006 at 17:07

daph4ntom said:
Soz,

Opty 146, 2 x 1GB G.Skill DDR ZX CAS2, DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D,LG Rewriter, 2 x 200GB Maxtor SATA2 DiamondMax Plus 10, Geforce 6600 PCI-E 256mb, maybe another IDE HDD for storage.

Doh, my signature has kicked in now too!

Pwer supply calculator

that should give you a rough idea... i think it will be fine !