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Antec Earthwatt 350 Watt enough for an 8800gt?

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I'm trying to build out a portable game machine so I purchased the antec 1380 since it looked small enough to be portable, but still was big enough to fit an 8800gt. However now I'm not sure if the psu it comes with an antect earthwatts 350 watt is enough to power an 8800gt (non overclocked).
I'm planning on running everything stock and I don't think there will be much of anything else in the case besides a hard drive and either a dvdrw or a bluray dvdrw. The card says it should have a 400 watt psu, but the earthwatts is supposed to be pretty efficient so I wonder if it's enough. Please let me know otherwise I'll have to scrap this case and find something else.
 
You mean the EA380, right? The Earthwatts series begins with the 380.

The 380 is a good PSU and will provide you with more than enough power. Ignore the people who might chime in this thread and say you don't have much "headroom." That's bogus.

See my sig? All three machines have EA380s in them right now. The opteron 180? It's got 4 HDs, a pair of PCI audio interfaces, DVDR, several fans, and previously had the x1950Pro which I've OC'd. I'm not even close to running out of power.

People who buy 600W PSUs for single video card systems are wasting their money. I'd only get a fanicer PSU for modular cables, if I was ever inclined.

 
Nope he really does mean 350w. That's what the NSK1380 has. Should be plenty of power with the redesigned nsk psu. Now your much bigger issue is going to be heat, the nsk1380 is NOT a good cooling case. Be careful how you handle the cooling of the video card as it'll be your largest heat source.
 
Thanks for the reply.
They had a pci slot blower fan included with the case so I was planning on having that blow directly into the 8800gt's fan.
The blower looks like this:
http://www.dealsonic.com/ancyblslmoco.html

I'm a bit more worried about the CPU cooling though. I'm thinking of using a cooler master gemini II passively, but it looks a little tricky with the space. I might just have to use the intel cooler if worse comes to worse.
 
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