Would this run on a 430w Antec PSU?

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I'm just wondering wether I'd be able to run this lot on my current 430w Antec Truepower:

Conroe e6600 @ 3.6ghz
OCZ titanium alpha 6400
Asus mobo (nForce 900)
BFG 7800GTX
X-Fi music
adsl modem
5 HD's, 1 DVD-RW

If anyone can help I'd be most grateful
 
I dunno if they've updated their truepower range but certainly my 480w antec from a while ago only has a 20pin connection and a 4pin cpu plug. No pci-e connection on it either.

Don't the new conroe boards need a 24pin with an 8pin cpu plug? It does have a decent 12v rail on it though (my one does at least), it seems to be rated at 24amps, thats off the sticker - the antec site seems to claim its only 18amps though.
 
Pulseammo said:
I dunno if they've updated their truepower range but certainly my 480w antec from a while ago only has a 20pin connection and a 4pin cpu plug. No pci-e connection on it either.
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Yeah, I think they've updated them all now. AFAIK anyway...
 
Calculator only 'guesses' though. It puts 13W per hard drive (SATA). My Samsung hard drives only use 7 watts each, so it would be out by 30watts if it was 5xSamsung hard disks.

I suspect it also overestimates the power requirements of floppy drives, zip drives, and optical drives. For instance generally you use your CD drive when installing games, or perhaps watching dvd's, listening to CD's etc. Sure these devices use a tiny bit if power when doing nothing, but the majority of power is only needed when the drive has to spin the disk up from 0 to max rpm. Once the drive is spinning its power requirement drops right down considerably. Good PSU's can handle a short term spike in load anyway.

But whens the last time you installed a game, while playing another game... probably never, so your graphics card instead of using 85W, was probably only using 40W. While you might multi task, the chances are while using your optical drives the cpu wont be running at full load either.
 
x2 WD 36gb Raptors
x2 Samsung Spinpoint
x1 Maxtor 320

I guess I could get rid of a Samsung lol but theres no way my raptors are getting taken out.

New psu it is =(
 
Bear in mind that if you are running your Raptors in RAID 0, they are BOTH running FULL TIME. Running multiple drives isn't always a proplem cos they rarely all run at once unless, of course, you are running 2 or more in RAID.

Regards

AndyOCuK
OCuK Tech :cool:
 
Iam just checking my spec on that calculator but just looking at yours I'd say you'd be ok for light use but if your overclocking and you seem not be to be too poor there then you should be upgrading that psu really, its fairly vital and a pain in the bum when it cuts out.

I have an old case supplied 300w psu powering an A64 system and it can power down the HDD in the middle of being used sometimes and loses files, even seen a partition disappear for the same reason. Its not a factor most of the time but theres no need to walk a tightrope if you dont have to

If you do buy be carefull about dual rails, etc




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The old A64 setup mentioned above comes to 261w which means the psu is definetly feeling its 4 years of 24/7 operation, I cant complain when it was free with a cheap highstreet shop brought case
 
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900W is only necessary for quad SLi at the moment. You may be filling out the fields in the PSU Calculator incorrectly. Post your spec (including fans, drives etc) here and I'll recommend a realistic PSU for you. :)

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