power supply ok?

Apatche64 · 15 May 2006 at 18:15

hi guys,

my dads upgrading and he's already got an atx power supply that is very good in his system at the moment...

it's an Antec TRU480 or something...

is that going to be able to cope with :

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - Retail

Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 (Socket 939 & Upgradable to AM2) AGP & PCI-Express Motherboard

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3

he has 2 sata drives and a dvd rewriter.

also a radeon 9600pro agp (hense the asrock duel mobo)

he's not bothered about gfx but does photoshop etc...

is this the best upgrade for him for the money ...?

he came from a xp 2500 or summat.

any other suggestions are fine:

cheers lads

p.s does the power supply need a btx adapter?

A.N.Other · 15 May 2006 at 18:25

Antec PSUs are good quaility and that should be fine.

This site will show you an estimate for the wattage you need. LINKAGE. Add ~100W to that and that's plenty.

Apatche64 · 15 May 2006 at 18:32

A.N.Other said:
Antec PSUs are good quaility and that should be fine.

This site will show you an estimate for the wattage you need. LINKAGE. Add ~100W to that and that's plenty.

cheers mate .. got 322watts.

so that should be fine yeah?

am i going crazy or do i need a power convertor for btx or summat?

also does anyone know about this mobo? any good? stable?

also is this the best setup for the money?

4T5 · 15 May 2006 at 18:34

Running an Antec Trueblue 480w myself mate. :cool:

Rock solid rails and good looking to boot. Should handle it easily.

Apatche64 · 15 May 2006 at 21:37

malc30 said:
Running an Antec Trueblue 480w myself mate.
Rock solid rails and good looking to boot. Should handle it easily.

so no adapters needed etc?

cheers mate you've been a help.

is the chioce of mobo ok?

only reason going for that is that it takes agp aswell...