Need High powered PSU - Recommendations ?

[ahmedaf]

My computer currently has a 420watt psu but thats not enough for it and ive jerry rigged a second PSU from my old system. Which is currently powering a couple of fans and a cdrom.

I wanna get a new PSU thats able to handle all my power requirements. Im thinking 500W or upwards.

Do you techies have any recommendations ? or links ?

Thanks a bunch.

 

[bacillus]

antec truepower 550W

 

[Jeff7181]

I highly doubt you need that much power... I think you just need a quality power supply. People have gone as far as to call mle a liar when I tell them what I'm running and what PSU I'm using. But here it goes anyway...

Antec 350 watt (the one that came in the Performance II Workstation Tower)

A7N8X Deluxe w/onboard sound and NIC
XP2500 @ 2.3 Ghz on 1.725 volts
1 GB of PC3200 RAM, (2x512), 2.8 volts
WD Raptor hard drive
WD800JB 7200 RPM hard drive
DVD-ROM
CDRW
3.5 floppy
6 in 1 media card reader
USB optical mouse
GeForceFX5900 @ 490/950
2 2500 RPM 80mm front intake fans
1 2500 RPM 80mm rear exhaust fan
1 2500 RPM 80mm slot exhaust fan
1 3500 RPM 80mm Panaflo CPU fan

All that is running on an Antec 350 watt power supply... now, you can't tell me, and expect me to believe that your power requirements are so much greater that you need more than 420 watts. I could add a couple more hard drives and some stupid neon lights and still not need 420+ watts.

List all your componants so we can help you decide on something... cause 550 will be overkill unless you're running dual Pentium 4's or a RAID array with 8 hard drives or somethin crazy like that.

 

[Montano]

Antec, period.

 

[Anubis]

any antec 350 and up will do just fine

I have a True power 430 running (only got a TP 430 cause it was 3$ more then the TP 380 figured why not good to have some leaway)

AMD XP 1700+ @ 1.6 GHz
1 gig PC 2700
aopen DVD rom
plextor 708a DVD burner
floppy
120gig WD HD
80 GIG maxtor HD
40gig Seagate HD
5 case fans
3 - 120mm sunons that run off 4 pin connectors
1 vantec 80mm tornado on 4 pin
1 92 mm papst - 2 pin
60 mm delta screamer on CPU
geforce 4 TI4600 running dual mons
SB sudigy
promice PCI IDE card
nic card
USB hub
wireless keyboard
wireless optical Mouse