Antec SmartPower 350w with AMD 965 Black Edition?

[jacktesterson]

Hi There,

My father has a PC I was going to upgrade. I have an old AM2+ Board sitting around upgraded to latest bios and it does support the 965. It has the 780g chipset on it with onboard 3200 graphics. I also have a 4GB DDR2 kit here.

He has a old PC I built for him years ago. Its a Athlon 2500+ with 2GB Ram.

Its case is a Sonata, and is using a SmartPower 350w Power supply with a 12 volt rail at 21 amps.

This computer will use onboard video, sound and LAN. It will have 2 case fans and 2 hard drives and 1 DVD Burner.

I was going to put the 780g motherboard and ram with my Current 965 in his PC for him and upgrade (if you can call it that) to a 1090t. I'd like to play with the 6 cores.

Would the 350w be enough?

I do have a 700w modxsteam ocz not in use, but I'd prefer to keep for backup purposes to be honest.

 

[TemjinGold]

150 watts would be plenty.

 

[fffblackmage]

350W is sufficient for the 965BE.

 

[Rifter]

will not be a problem at all.

 

[0roo0roo]

I used one with an x4 for a few days when my regular psu died. Just don't use a power hungry graphics card, it wasn't happy when i tried that...

 

[faxon]

Weren't those smartpower units known for having bad caps? I see them dead @ frys pretty regularly cause the caps blew up lol

 

[Computers_Plus]

Antec has had issues in the past they would not be my top pick of power supplies but they are better than a lot of the el cheap'os out there.

 

[Zap]

Weren't those smartpower units known for having bad caps?

Yes, the original SmartPower and original TruePower were known to use crappy caps.

Bigystyle, you should keep an eye out in the Hot Deals forum. At times Newegg has had the Antec Neo Eco 400W for $20 after rebate with free shipping.

 

[Christoph Katzer]

Weren't those smartpower units known for having bad caps? I see them dead @ frys pretty regularly cause the caps blew up lol

Hi,

Yes there has been an issue before but that's long ago, before even most of today's brands started selling power supplies. We learned from mistakes. As you can see from the original poster, not all units had problems and some are still going strong.

Christoph

 

[Zap]

not all units had problems and some are still going strong.

Yeah, one of my old Antec TruePower 330W was finally taken out of service (machine replaced) a month ago.