Need a better PSU power supply

Yella Fella

Yella Fella

Yella Fella

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Hello,

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this but...

I currently use a Tagan 430watt PSU and i think its coming to a point where it cant really power all my devices... IDE 120gig, 3 sata 250gig, radeon 9800, 2x 512 DDR mem, DVD-RW. Because if i overclock my CPU, some of my drives go missing when loading to windows.

So im assuming im lacking power somewhere. Any recommend me a reliable quieter and more powerful HD? Maybe to accomodate up to 6 x 250 SATA drives? And possibility of an uprated soundcard module and PCI-E graphics card? Thanks.
 
hmm 430W should be enough for all those.

You sure it's not a motherboard problem? Some mobos have problems detecting drives when FSB is set too high.

What mobo do you have?? CPU???
 
should be okay for that kit.

maybe unplug some of the non necessary drives and see if the problem still occurs.
 
I was running 2 IDE hdds, 3 SATA hdds, cdrw+dvd drives, 7600gt, 2*1gb ram, oc'd E6300 on 400w, so yours should be fine :s
 
If you power supply is older than a year it can lose significant wattge compared to the rating.

http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculator.jsp

Paraphrasing

" Electrolytic capacitor aging. When used heavily or over an extended period of time (1+ years) a power supply will slowly lose some of its initial wattage capacity. 20% for a year, or 25-30% for 24/7 usage and 1+ years."

And that is assuming a reasonable brand (which Tagan is)
 
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