How do I know many watts is enough?

[preacherofdoom]

I want to buy the Thermaltake purepower 350 which isfanless. I have never used a psu less than 430 watts so I'm not sure if it's enough. The following will be my setup:

Thermaltake Kandalf case (4 low speed fans I might use or might not)
Asus A8N-SLI Premium (will use Silent fanless cpu cooler)
ATI X300 (will use silent fanless VGA cooler)
1 Seagate 80 Gb Hard Drive Sata
2 sticks of Corsair Ram (2x512)
Athlon 64 3000+ Venice
1 LG Dvd Burner
1 Liteon Dvd Rom
Microsoft Media Center 2005 OS
Mouse and Keyboard
Audigy sound card (forgot the model, it costs about $80)

 

[w00t]

Do you have the pc yet? seems to be you want a quiet pc.
samsung makes quiet drives but so doe seagate.
samsung makes quiet dvd burners
and i sugged getting a 1gig stick instead so you can upgrade to 2.

 

[preacherofdoom]

I don't think I'll ever need more than a gig of ram. I've got software which can control speed of optical drives. So I can use the drives I trust. I trust my Lg burner and Liteon dvd-rom. I don't have the pc yet. I'm still unsure of the motherboard too.

 

[Farmer]

Seagate is usually more expensive than Samsung, though both are quiet. I also think Samsung is currently go on SATA II, if that matters to you.

+1 on the Samsung optical drives. If you want performance at a good price, Lite-On is the way to go. If you want quiet, Lite-On is definitely not the way to go.

I also suggest getting a much, much larger drive (perhaps 2x300GB and 1x 36GB Raptor for the OS). After all, it does look like you are building a PC-DVR, and all the stuff you record will take up space.

As for power, your graphics card isn't too power-hungry, so I say >= 400w. Try Seasonic if you are into quiet.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Farmer
Seagate is usually more expensive than Samsung, though both are quiet. I also think Samsung is currently go on SATA II, if that matters to you.

+1 on the Samsung optical drives. If you want performance at a good price, Lite-On is the way to go. If you want quiet, Lite-On is definitely not the way to go.

I also suggest getting a much, much larger drive (perhaps 2x300GB and 1x 36GB Raptor for the OS). After all, it does look like you are building a PC-DVR, and all the stuff you record will take up space.

As for power, your graphics card isn't too power-hungry, so I say >= 400w. Try Seasonic if you are into quiet.

from what i have read the raptors are not quiet and to be honest, you will have more than enough power for your system, but i might look for a different manf like enermax, antex, fortron, seasonic, oczs as they offer quiet ones and are better psus

look at my rig in sig and what ps i am using. plus the venice doesn't take anything for power, i think is like 30W or something crazy low like that.

i would get a huge seagate (since they have the 5yr warranty) since it does look like a dvr setup