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500W psu be enough?

secretanchitman

secretanchitman

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buying:
amd opteron 165
asus a8n32-sli mobo
evga 8800GTS 320MB

reusing:
western digital 120GB 7200RPM HD (IDE)
seagate 300GB 7200RPM HD (SATA)
2x1GB G.Skill DDR-500 sticks
6 blue led fans
1 vantec fan on the heatsink (thermalright xp-90)
zalman fan controller
nec 4551 16x dvd-rw
lite on 52x cd-rw

i just need to know if 500W will be enough to power all that. right now, its powering all of that but instead an intel pentium 4 2.4C @ 2.95Ghz, asus p4p800 mobo, and a geforce 6600GT.

TIA!
 
Bottom line is: it depends on how reliable. A good brand like PCP&C or Seasonic or Corsair PSU would do, but a Joe Shmoe 500W Fell-Off-The-Back-Of-A-Lorry Special Deal won't.
 
Depends on what Antec too. Some of the older CWT builds use bad caps that will fail in high heat and don't last as long. Their newer Seasonic builds are fine, though not up to the usual Seasonic build quality.
 
Originally posted by: Goi
Depends on what Antec too. Some of the older CWT builds use bad caps that will fail in high heat and don't last as long. Their newer Seasonic builds are fine, though not up to the usual Seasonic build quality.
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It really has just as much or more to with design (outside of cap choice) that causes the Channel Well built Antecs to fail. FSP also uses Fuhjyyu in their low-end units and these units have no problems are far as reliability is concerned.
 
Originally posted by: Operandi
Originally posted by: Goi
Depends on what Antec too. Some of the older CWT builds use bad caps that will fail in high heat and don't last as long. Their newer Seasonic builds are fine, though not up to the usual Seasonic build quality.
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It really has just as much or more to with design (outside of cap choice) that causes the Channel Well built Antecs to fail. FSP also uses Fuhjyyu in their low-end units and these units have no problems are far as reliability is concerned.
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The problems with the older CWT-built Antec's was related directly to the Fuhjyyu caps overheating & failing as a result which is still indication of poor design on Antec's part, however the newest Truepower & in particular the Earth-Power models are the equivelant of economy-model Seasonics & are very well made in comparision.
 
Originally posted by: Captante
The problems with the older CWT-built Antec's was related directly to the Fuhjyyu caps overheating & failing as a result which is still indication of poor design on Antec's part, however the newest Truepower & in particular the Earth-Power models are the equivelant of economy-model Seasonics & are very well made in comparision.
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FSP use some of the same caps with less air flow then many of the Antec units and these (FSP) units seem to last forever in my experience. I'm not saying Fuhjyyu are good caps but clearly there has to be more to it then heat + time if the same caps last 5-6 years plus in one application (FSP) and fail in different application in 1-3 years (Antec).

Also there is no direct equivalent Seasonic to the Antec units bulit by Seasonic. All of the Antec units are lower quality in comparison.
 
I have a Antec Titan 550 which comes with a TP 2.0 550 Watt psu. I'v run it for over a year with zero problems. It runs cool and quiet.

My System:
FX60
4GB Patriot DDR400 Ram
2xNEC DVDRW
74GB WD Raptor
400GB WD Cavier
X1950XT
SB Live 5.1

I have zero problems.
 
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