is my psu powerful enough?

MichaelHo · 3 Jul 2007 at 10:06

Hi,
Planning a little upgrade of a pretty weak system (2500+ sempron, riva tnt2 gfx). Going to run a amd 64 3500+, 7600 gt xxx pci-e gfx card, 1 gig ram and most likely 2 HDD.
Currently have a 400W psu which came with a case (icute) i previously had. My question is if this psu is powerful enough to run my upgraded set up? Also I'm getting a antec p180 case, as the psu compartment is at the bottom of the case and the motherboard will not be situated upside down I don't think the motherboard psu wire will be long enough, what can i do?

Any help appreciated.

Michael.

BAMBI · 3 Jul 2007 at 10:15

It could posibly be enough, but would be border line, im not expecting more then 17a on the 12v rail. Can you give us the rail specifications of the PSU?

krooton · 3 Jul 2007 at 10:15

400w will run it easily, but I am not sure of Icute's quality.

I've run a 4000+, X1800XT, 1GB RAM and 2 HDDs off a 400w Silver Power PSU with not problems.

MichaelHo · 3 Jul 2007 at 10:20

BAMBI said:
It could posibly be enough, but would be border line, im not expecting more then 17a on the 12v rail. Can you give us the rail specifications of the PSU?

This is what is says on the psu
Voltage:
DC: +3.3V, +5V, +12V
Output: 20A, 40A, 18A

Any good?

I may be able to get an AKASA Paxpower 460w PSU for around £20-£25, would this be much better? However I don't really want to spend much more on this set up as it not really my main rig, so if the icute one is sufficient I'll stick with that.

BAMBI · 3 Jul 2007 at 11:15

MichaelHo said:
This is what is says on the psu
Voltage:
DC: +3.3V, +5V, +12V
Output: 20A, 40A, 18A

Any good?

I may be able to get an AKASA Paxpower 460w PSU for around £20-£25, would this be much better? However I don't really want to spend much more on this set up as it not really my main rig, so if the icute one is sufficient I'll stick with that.

You will prob be able to get away with it since the 7600GT doesnt need so much power.

M0t0r0la · 3 Jul 2007 at 16:48

Plug it in and see

Then if it's not powerfull enough buy a new one!
It's not rocket science

fobose · 3 Jul 2007 at 16:52

If he does a trial an error and it doesn't work then he has to pay delivery twice

M0t0r0la · 3 Jul 2007 at 16:58

fobose said:
If he does a trial an error and it doesn't work then he has to pay delivery twice

True, but if you shop about plenty of places do FREE delivery

MichaelHo · 3 Jul 2007 at 17:05

I'm still waiting for everything to arrive, just seeing if I need to try and source another PSU or not.