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Abbadon
01-22-2005, 08:48 AM
I'm building a system for a friend, and got these specs together:

ANTEC SLK2650-BQE Midi Tower Black Quiet 350W PSU
ASUS K8V SE Deluxe, socket 754
AMD Athlon 3000+, 64bit, Socket 754 Boxed with cooler
KINGSTON DDR 512MB 400Mhz PC3200 ValueRam
MSI Geforce FX5700LE-TD 256MB TV-out, DVI, 8xAGP

SONY DRU-710A Internal 16 X +/- DVD-R/DUAL LAYER/RW
NEC BLACK Floppy 1.44MB
WESTERN DIGITAL 120GB SATA (7200/150) WD1200JD

LOGITECH LX300 Black Cordless Desktop Azerty 967427-0123



Question is: will that psu pull it? 350W seems enough to me, especially comming from an antec-psu & seeing there is just 1 hdd and one optical.

Thoughts?
thx

Fruss Tray Ted
01-22-2005, 10:09 AM
I don't know if the power supply will 'pull it', to me it's more like push it considering it is a power 'supply' rather than a vacuum. ;)

That sounds like plenty of power to me considering I am using a generic 300 watt supply with 2 optical and 2 harddrives though I do not have an agp graphics card.

Here's a list I had saved in NotePad a while back to assist you in deciding:

power supply requirements

PSU: What you need
AGP video card - 20-30W
PCI video card - 20W
AMD Athlon 900MHz-1.1GHz - 50W
AMD Athlon 1.2MHz-1.4GHz - 55-65W
Intel Pentium III 800MHz-1.26GHz - 30W
Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz-1.7GHz - 65W
Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz-2.0GHz - 75W
Intel Celeron 700MHz-900MHz - 25W
Intel Celeron 1.0GHz-1.1GHz - 35W
ATX Motherboard - 30W-40W
128MB RAM - 10W
256MB RAM - 20W
12X or higher IDE CD-RW Drive - 25W
32X or higher IDE CD-ROM Drive - 20W
10x or higher IDE DVD-ROM Drive - 20W
SCSI CD-RW Drive - 17W
SCSI CD-ROM Drive - 12W
5400RPM IDE Hard Drive - 10W
7200RPM IDE Hard Drive - 13W
7200RPM SCSI Hard Drive - 24W
10000RPM SCSI Hard Drive - 30W
Floppy Drive - 5W
Network Card - 4W
Modem - 5W
Sound Card - 5W
SCSI Controller Card - 20W
Firewire/USB Controller Card - 10W
Case Fan - 3W
CPU Fan - 3W

But all this does not mention what rail the current is drawn from so see the article in the link: here (http://www.firingsquad.com/guides/power_supply/page2.asp)

Steve
01-22-2005, 10:28 AM
Sure. That's a good quality Antec power supply. I think you'll be fine.

Abbadon
01-22-2005, 10:36 AM
Nice list FTT, thx ;)