Enough Power to OC in this Power Supply?

[Drizzy]

Well, I am curious if a powersupply that I am looking at will be sufficient to OC my system.

The powersupply is by Antec so it is a good brand but a little low on the juice its the sl350BLUE. A 350 Watt supply with blue lights. Here is what it will be running:

AMD 2500+ @ 2.4 Ghz
1 GB OCZ platinum 3200 DDR
ATI 9800pro
120 GB Seagate HD
ThermalTake HS/F
2 120mm fans

Thats the basics of it... so, should I upgrade to a higher PS or will the antec 350 watt be sufficient? Thanks for any input!

 

[Sid59]

you're fine. that blue light pumps up the wattage to 351 WATTS!

 

[Drizzy]

Hrmmm actually I just noticed the "deal" I was going to get wasnt such a deal... so I can get a True430 watt ps... that should do it huh?

 

[myocardia]

There's a good chance that SL350 won't have enough juice, since you have a 9800pro, which use >75 watts. I would definitely go for the TruePower 430. That's what most of the people around here use, unless they have a True480 or even a 550. Antecs are very good, I highly recommend them.

 

[FPSguy]

You may want to put your system components in this online power supply calculator and see what size you need.

 

[Drizzy]

Yeah thanks guys - I think I'll go with the bigger power supply. That calculator came up with 348 watts which is too close to the max that I want to be... I could always add little things too. ..

 

[Astror]

The calculator has already a +10% to total sum (your computer will probably never reach his maximum consumption with all its components), but .. a better PSU means safer a computer.

 

[MegaWorks]

buy the truepower 430watts

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