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Is a 350watt power supply enough for new memory.

I just bought a 1GB stick of new memory as a replacement to a 512MB stick and now the computer locks up after a couple of hours when playing games. So the question is; is a 350watt Antec enough for my system with a new 1GB stick of memory because it used to work just fine with 512MB?

Here are the rest of the system specs.

AMD Athlon 64 3400
ATI All-In-Wonder 9600 XT (Which don't forget has fast core speed so it might use a lot of power)
Corsair 1GB DDR400 memory
1 160GB Seagate hard drive and another 80GB Seagate
Internal DVD-RW drive and another DVD reader
Internal floppy drive
Creative Sound Blaster 128
D-Link network card
Five 80mm cooling fans (including the CPU fan)
Five USB devices, one is a receiver for a ATI Remote Wonder II and the other a Saitek non force-feed-back joystick, the other three are self-powered devices.
All built on an Abit nf8-v motherboard
 
If its the updated SL350 w/ 21 amps on the 12V rail then yes your fine if not and its the old one w/ 15 or 16 amps on the 12V rail then its prolly not enough under load the first thing I'd do tho is run memtest86+ and see if it passes
 
I tried running memtest86+ but it checked out ok, no doubt because the cache was enabled. That's because I can't disable it with my motherboard BIOS. However I will try turning the voltage up because it only at 2.60.
 
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