PSU Question!

The Old Man · 19 Jun 2006 at 16:20

Hi,
I currently have a 480w Antec PSU bought from OCUK when I bought my FX5900 sometime ago. I'm upgrading to a PCI Express system, hopefully a AMD64X2 4200 and an OCUK 7900 512MB GTX. Can anyone recommend a PSU, possibly Antec becasue I like the way they keep the chassis fans quiet with their fan only leads. Do they still have this functionality? I noticed some PSU's have all of these disconnectable leads, I don't think I need all that but want to make sure I've enough power ands its quiet - blue nova/corsa leds optional!

The Old Man · 19 Jun 2006 at 16:40

Hi,
Thanks for that. I'm looking at the Seasonic S12 500W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply. Would that be good enough? These are better than the Antec or Tagan PSU's?

The Old Man · 19 Jun 2006 at 16:41

Thanks Jay T, any recommendation on size? I don't want SLI.

Would the Enermax Noisetaker 535W EG565AX-VE(W) SFMA ATX2.0 SLI Compliant PSU be enough for a dual athlon and 7900 512MB GTX?

The Old Man · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:20

Thanks all for the replies. It seems many think 500w should be enough, which is only 20w more than I have now so I can see your point Mr B. I don't think it has PCI-E connectors though, just SATA and Fan Only ones in addition to the main power ATX and 4 pin connector. Any have any pictures of PCI-E connectors that I can compare?

The system is going to be:

Dual core AMD64 X2 4200
2 GB DDR400
2 SATA RAID HDD 160GB
1 Nvida 7900GTX 512MB
1 DVD-RW

as per this topic . I was hoping for an opinion or some advice on this topic before I spend over £800 if anyone wants to chip in! Its holding me off ordering!