Enermax Noisetaker Series 470Watt?

[gate1975mlm]

Hey guys I am getting parts for my soon to be built system. The system will be a Nforce4 Board, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 939 SSE3 CPU with 2GB of ram, Geforce 6600 GT ,2 300GB SATA Hard Drives, Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, 56k Modem, Flash Card Reader, Floppy Drive, 1 DVD Rom Drive and 1 DVDRW Drive and a Fan Controller with 4 Case fans.

I already got a brand new Enermax Noisetaker Series 470Watt ATX 12V v2.0 Power Supply. But I am starting to worry that this may not be powerful enough. Should I keep this power supply or sell it and get a bigger supply like the 600 Watt version?

Model
EG475P-VE (24P) Noisetaker Series 470Watt ATX 12V v2.0 PSU

I just want to make sure its powerful enough for the next few years. Because down the line when I add a more powerful Video Card I want to make sure my power Supply will be ok.



Thanks for your help.

 

[Ike0069]

That PSU will be more than you need for quite a while.

 

[Goi]

I have one. It works great.

 

[SrGuapo]

That PSU is plenty for any home PC. Unless you have a dual opteron system with 8GB RAM and 10 hard drives, anything over 450W is plenty... Wjhat are yo plannign on doing with this PC?

 

[imported_whatever]

Enermax makes excellent PSUs, and that one is rated at plenty of power for any single-cpu system.
I ran my XP/M @2.7/2.2v for benching with a 9700PRO vmodded with an 80W TEC on it on an Enermax 300W PSU for a bit before i got my Fortron 530W, and it worked fine. The CPU alone was pulling 150+W, the video card and TEC were probably pulling 125W, and I was running 2HDDs and a DVD drive on top of that. The rails were fine, and barely dropped at all according to my multimeter compared to idling at 1.1v/1.3GHz with the 9700PRO clocked lower and no vMod or TEC, so ANY Enermax PSU can take a LOT of load.

 

[lenjack]

It will handle your needs easily, with room to spare.

 

[jm0ris0n]

You should be good to go 🙂