Enhance 5150GH PSU / Antec P180 Case

[Sav]

Hey Guys,

Howard on this forum has been a great help to me and recommended I get this PSU: Enhance 5150GH PSU it is 500 W and after using the watt recommender this system is supposed to use 560 watts but I have been told this PSU is fine. My questions remain to those who have experience with it, will this PSU be fine for my system and also will the wires reach in the large antec p180 case. I havent order the PSU or the Case yet so I can't really measure anything . Just hoping on the experiences of others to see if this will work.

System (ordering real soon)
Case:
Antec Performance One P180 Silver cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail

Mobo:
GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

Processor:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Conroe 2.13GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6400 - Retail

Cooler:
ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler - Retail

HD:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3500630AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

Video Card:
eVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800GTS 640MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card - Retail

DVD:
SAMSUNG 18X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write, LightScribe Technology Black SATA Model SH-S183L - OEM

Power Supply:
Enhance 5150GH PSU

RAM:
G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-6400CL4D-2GBPK - Retail
OR
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM - Retail

I plan on OCing my processor to 8x400=3.2 GHz and also adding a HDTV Tuner Card soon as a nice one is available.

 

[Zepper]

It should be fine, the issue is more cable length for that case than not having enough power for your proposed system. The length of most cables of the 5150 to the first connector is 20" and the overall height of that casse is 21.3, so that should be covered handily. Go for it.

.bh.

 

[Sav]

Thanks, so the 500W should be fine? That site that tells you how many watts you need recommended 560W so I was a little worried about that.

 

[Zepper]

Those sites almost always overshoot. Get yourself a Kill A Watt meter and prove it to yourself. I'd be surprised if your proposed system actually draws over 300W from the wall on any type of regular basis (240 Watts into the load at 80% efficiency).

.bh.

 

[VooDooAddict]

What site?

Corsair is running an SLI'd 8800GTX C2D system on 600W at the CES.

I'd imagine that power supply recommending tool is assuming you are getting a generic branded power supply.

On a Vantec 460W power supply I'm running Dual P4 based Xeons, 2Gigs of RAM, Ati 9800SE, Promise Hardware RAID5 3x250GB IDE, RAID0 2x250 SATA, 1x36GB Raptor Boot, NEC DVD Burner. (+ 3 80mm case fans). I might be pushing the limit ... but it works and it's been running like that almost 24/7 for the last 18 months ... and for 12 months before that it just had fewer Hard drives.

I've never heard of "Enhance" but if it's really a "80+" Efficiency then I'd bet it's quality enough.

 

[Sav]

on the specs for the card it says:

Minimum of a 400 Watt power supply.
(Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 26 Amp Amps.)

on this powersource it has
+12V1 18A
+12V2 18A

if one 12V goes to the CPU and one 12V goes video, it'll only have 18A there right?

 

[Zepper]

Here are the specs on the 5150GH. Total of 36A on the +12 rails... And if you read the review of the Silverstone (same PSU) on JonnyGuru.com you know that it meets that handily. I wish he'd drive them until they give up but he's chicken...
That 26A min is total for the system, not just the card - and the 5150 can run 38A or more for a short time.

.bh.