350W or 450W power supply?

teiresias

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Well, the PS died :( I'm debating whether to get the Enermax 350W or 450W since there is only about $20 difference between them (prior to shipping). I plan to get it from Russ. Anyway, my config is below. I'm well aware that I probably have absolutely no need for a 450W at the moment, but I plan to add another harddrive at some point to do some video editing and other stuff, and the fact that the price difference is pretty negligible is tempting me, ya know, just to know I have it :)

Anyway, here are the specs:

ABIT BH6 1.01
Celeron566@850, Golden Orb
384MB RAM
2 IBM harddrives, one 10Gig ATA/33, the other 20Gig ATA/100, both on a Promise Ultra-100 card
Toshiba 4x DVD-ROM drive on motherboard IDE
Tekram DC-390 SCSI card
Panasonic 4x CD-R (the only thing on the SCSI card -- such a waste :) )
SoundBlaster Live
Kensington Ethernet Card
Radeon 32MB DDR overclocked
1 floppy
3 case fans, two harddrive bay fans (double fans in each)

So what do people think? No peltiers or anything super charged obviously. Am I just setting myself up for consumer guilt later if I get the 450W over the 350W?
 

Jgtdragon

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May 15, 2000
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Powersupply last pretty long time, so why not get the 450w. At the very least, you can't blame the powersupply for holding you back. ;)
 

Noriaki

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You will not need a 450 watt with that rig, nor did I but I got one anyways, my reason was the same as Jgtdragon's. You never know...maybe one day you'll go Dual Durons :) That would be a juice sucker.

Since the Price diff isn't much I'd go for the 450.
 

Rand

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Oct 11, 1999
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you don't need a 450W PS, and judging from your specs I doubt you will at any time soon either. But given the price difference, I'd say take the 450W PS just in case.

Who knows? Maybe you'll eventually want Dual T-Birds and a quad RAID setup of X15's. :)