Do I have enough power.

[KK]

I'm in the process of throwing together a new system. I bought a Antec 1030 case with a 300W power supply 2 weeks ago. In this setup, I'll have probably an P4S333 with a 1.6a processor, 5 80GB 7200RPM HDs (thanks BestBuy) with a promise SX6000 raid card, undecided on which cd burner, an ATI 7500 AIW, and 3 or 4 fans. Once I get it altogether and turn it on, what will happen if I don't have enough power?

Thanks
KK

 

[fell8]

It will probably be unstable, mysterous reboots, won't recognize hardware, errors, etc., or it may not work at all.

Heftier PSUs are cheap and plentiful.

 

[lordbob99]

if ur gonna run with all those hard drives and such, i'd recommend going with a larger power supply. at least a 400, if not 500 watts. without all the hard drives, i'm sure u'd be fine, but as fell8 noted, all the power being sucked may cause ur system to be extremely unstable.

sounds like a pretty sweet system ur building there tho. 🙂

lordbob99

 

[jiffylube1024]

That PS *should* run that setup fine. I can run with 3 HD's and basically the rest of what you mentioned with a 300W Power Supply with zero stability problems. However, with 5 fast HD's in there, I'd recommend 350-400W to be absolutely sure. 500W is definately overkill, and unnecessary. Just make sure its ATX 2.03 compatibile and has the square P4 4-pin connector.

 

[RadioactiveMagpies]

I don't think that 300 watt would be enough, each of those besy buys western digital 80 gigs hardrives 😉 are already 17W at spinup http://www.wdc.com/products/current/drives.asp?Model=WD800BB