How many watts is your PSU?

[Zukatah]

I want to buy a new PSU this afternoon and I can't decide between 330 and 430 watts for my new rig. There is not a big difference in price so your help will be appreciated. BTW, it's the TruePower by Antec that I'm going to buy !

Thanks

 

[John]

Buy the 430 if you can afford it. Nothing like a little extra headroom.

 

[Sundog]

<< Buy the 430 if you can afford it. >>

 

[Operandi]

Buy the 430 if you can afford it. Nothing like a little extra headroom.

Or in this case, nothing like a whole lot of extra headroom .

 

[Jgtdragon]

<< Buy the 430 if you can afford it. Nothing like a little extra headroom. >>



Better to have more than less.

 

[DJVIC]

One more and enought votes for 430W

 

[Zukatah]

Damn they just went out of stock of the 430 watts.
I won't have any problems with 330 with a P4 1.6a ocd to 2.4, 768 megs of ram, all the usual stuff, two HDDs, 3 cd drives.... will I?

 

[Daovonnaex]

<< Damn they just went out of stock of the 430 watts.
I won't have any problems with 330 with a P4 1.6a ocd to 2.4, 768 megs of ram, all the usual stuff, two HDDs, 3 cd drives.... will I? >>

Probably not. Check the output on the 12v rail with so many devices, though.

 

[salman327]

430w

 

[Dre]

330watts

 

[Horsepower]

431W (EG465VPE)

 

[eplebnista]

Another vote for the True430.

My $.02,
eplebnista

 

[Adul]

300 watss until I can afford the true power 430

 

[Pariah]

"I won't have any problems with 330 with a P4 1.6a ocd to 2.4, 768 megs of ram, all the usual stuff, two HDDs, 3 cd drives.... will I?"

None at all. I have a slightly OC'd XP 2000+, Radeon 8500, 4 hard drives and other assorted hardware running of a standard Antec 300W PS. People on this board have become infactuated with wattage ratings of PS's thinking you need 500W just to run a standard midrange PC. It's completely false, a quality 300W PS is more than enough for any single CPU system someone can put together today. I don't care if you have 8 hard drives in the thing.

 

[Budman]

Mine has 470 watts. and I love it,it's got 3x80mm fans in it all controlled by a small high,med,low switch in the back. It's much better than my previous emermax.

 

[m2kewl]

<< 431W (EG465VPE) >>

 

[ObiDon]

<< I have a slightly OC'd XP 2000+, Radeon 8500, 4 hard drives and other assorted hardware running of a standard Antec 300W PS. >>


"I thought I was the only one! So, this is what it feels like...when doves cry!"

 

[mastertech01]

It certainly depends on the brand and quality. You can get some 400 watters that will out perform some rated much higher. If you plan on keeping it for some time I would get the most power you can get for the money in a QUALITY PSU.

 

[CocaCola5]

430watts. I want a 650 though.

 

[pillage2001]

300watts. Still running strong. No AMD is gonna scare me with the AMD approved label.

 

[Viper GTS]

TruePower 550

Viper GTS

 

[N8Magic]

Sparkle 235W.

 

[Nocturnal]

get the 430 if you can afford it.

i need to get a new psu. i believe its the culprit of my computer problems lately.

get a 500 if you can!

 

[Zukatah]

Thanks you very much for your replies guys, it is very appreciated !

 

[Nefrodite]

truely nice powersupplys have temperature sensitive fans unless you have a monster system that requires the psu to run at max 100% of the time the noise reduction feature is certainly nice