Will it be enough?

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I'm building a pc for my little brother and would like to know if a Seasonic S12 430W will be enough to power this spec? Also would their be enough power for overclocking the 805? The gfx card will be either a Nvidia 256mb 6600 or ATI all-in-wonder 9800 pro.




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Billy
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Cheers for the suggestion mate....probably go with the 7600gt/gs or X1600XT as them seem decent cards.

Also one more question.......is a floppy drive needed at all or can it be forgotten about nowadays?
 
Raikiri said:
PSU will be fine, I am just testing my 805 @ 3.88ghz atm with one and it runs it fine at 3.8. I wouldnt bother with a floppy drive, never used one in the last 5 years.

Nice one! Amazing cpu for just over £70 :D I'll drop the floppy then.


locutus12 said:
swap the CPU mobo and cooler for the following.

CP-117-AM AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3000BPBOX) (CP-117-AM)
£49.95 £49.95

FG-000-AR Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR)
£14.50 £14.50

MB-002-AK Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 (Socket 939 & Upgradable to AM2) AGP & PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-002-AK)
£34.50 £34.50


the AMD CPU will clock far better than that intel will, the Arctic coolers damn good and £10 less and the Asrock board is reliable, bloody fast, overclocks very well and it has AGP and PCI-E so if youve already got a 9800pro you can stick it in there for the moment untill you want to go for a PCI-E card. Oh, and the Asrock boards AM2 compatible too (via an expansion card) so when he next needs an upgrade, youve got the option of going for AM2 and DDR 2.

if you do decide to go for a PCI-E card, get an X1800XT, best bang for buck card on the market at the moment @ £165, if your looking for a cheaper less powerful alternative then the 7600GT is only £117 but has around 40% less horsepower, will still wip the hell out of the 9800pro though.

p.s. 430 watts will be enough power for your option above and my options ive given you here.

Thanks I'll have a look into that then seeing as it's got good upgrade potential and I can use one of my old gfx cards :)
 
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Ha ha sorry for the confusion with my editing. It's just I'm really tired and wasn't expecting all this help at 4am lol. Also I've got about 5 tabs open in firefox and some times make mistakes cos I'm looking at other stuff aswell.......sorry :)

I'll have a good look into both suggestions tomorrow, aslong as it's not better than my pc :D Thanks again for the help guys I'm off to bed now.
 
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