PSU Recomendations

[rohizz]

I am upgrading from a 5-year old system:
P4 Northwood 2.4
P4S533 motherboard
1 gig (2x512) PC2700 RAM
9800PRO 128mb
NIC card
Creative Sound Blaster Live

I have been using an Antec Truepower 350w for the past 5 years.

This is my projected system:

CPU - Conroe E6400
Mobo - ASRock 775Dual-VSTA
RAM - pqi TURBO 2GB DDR2-667
GPU - XFX 9800GS XT Edition
HDD - 74gb Raptor + old IDE 120gb
Burner - NEC 16x DVD+-R
Thermal Grease - AS5
Case - NZXT Apollo Black

with that, what wattage or PSUs would you recommend?

also, performance-wise, what kind of upgrade is this?

 

[Baked]

Enhance ENP-5140GH. Froogle for it and click the ewiz link. You're getting a huge performance upgrade going from P4 NW to C2D.

 

[rohizz]

Great stuff, thanks

 

[dBTelos]

400W Enermax Liberty.

 

[akshayt]

1)It is allendale and not conroe.

2)Which card is that.

 

[memories2002]

I think he means the 6800GS XT Edition....
Get a quality 400-450W PSU. Delta/Enhance/Acbel...

 

[acegazda]

who are delta and acbel? I'd recommend the enhance 5140gh, or if you must have simplicity and order, the enermax liberty. I view the enhance as better quality (check it out) so that's my first recommendation.

 

[Boyo]

Either the Enermax Liberty or the new Corsair. Great PSU's with high effeciency solid 12v rails.....

 

[acegazda]

The corsair is way overkill for that system. The 520w version has 49amps on the 12v rails combined. He will never, ever ultilize that. True, it is a very good quality psu, but his $110 is better spent elsewhere.

 

[Newf]

Originally posted by: rohizz
I am upgrading from a 5-year old system:
P4 Northwood 2.4
P4S533 motherboard
1 gig (2x512) PC2700 RAM
9800PRO 128mb
NIC card
Creative Sound Blaster Live

I have been using an Antec Truepower 350w for the past 5 years.

This is my projected system:

CPU - Conroe E6400
Mobo - ASRock 775Dual-VSTA
RAM - pqi TURBO 2GB DDR2-667
GPU - XFX 9800GS XT Edition
HDD - 74gb Raptor + old IDE 120gb
Burner - NEC 16x DVD+-R
Thermal Grease - AS5
Case - NZXT Apollo Black

with that, what wattage or PSUs would you recommend?

also, performance-wise, what kind of upgrade is this?

Starting with the 2nd question first, this would be a huge performance increase.
BUT...WHY are you crippling this upgrade with that AsRock mobo? You are not trying to carry over your old AGP card AND you are buying new ram. Why not buy a fast mobo with 4 DDR2 slots and PCI-E 16 video instead of the AsRocks 2 slots, AGP 8x + PCI-E 4x and a slow chipset? Consider:
MSI P965 Neo-F LGA775 965 ATX Conroe $110+6 8/18/06
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130052
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=P965_Neo-F&class=mb

Asus P5N-SLI nForce570 Conroe $120+6 8/26/06
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=247091

There are many other good choices for reasonable $$$ out there.

Next is the PSU. For value I recomment FSP. An Antec TruePower 480 will also work well but costs more.

FSP AX450-PN 450watt 12v:2x18a PSU 20+4pin $49+8 9/06
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817104954

FSP FSP400-60THN-R 400watt 12v:14+15a 24pin $67+7 9/06
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817104935

 

[dBTelos]

Originally posted by: acegazda
who are delta and acbel? I'd recommend the enhance 5140gh, or if you must have simplicity and order, the enermax liberty. I view the enhance as better quality (check it out) so that's my first recommendation.

Acbel is a OEM for some PSU brands (Coolermaster comes to mind). And Delta does mainly server PSUs IIRC, but they are pretty highend.

 

[Operandi]

Originally posted by: acegazda
who are delta and acbel? I'd recommend the enhance 5140gh, or if you must have simplicity and order, the enermax liberty. I view the enhance as better quality (check it out) so that's my first recommendation.

Delta is one of the top tier PSU manufactures; they have 0 retail presence however so it's not a name your average enthusiast is familiar with.

Originally posted by: acegazda
The corsair is way overkill for that system. The 520w version has 49amps on the 12v rails combined. He will never, ever ultilize that. True, it is a very good quality psu, but his $110 is better spent elsewhere.

49A's would be 588 watts; think about it.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: dBTelos

Originally posted by: acegazda
who are delta and acbel? I'd recommend the enhance 5140gh, or if you must have simplicity and order, the enermax liberty. I view the enhance as better quality (check it out) so that's my first recommendation.

Acbel is a OEM for some PSU brands (Coolermaster comes to mind). And Delta does mainly server PSUs IIRC, but they are pretty highend.

just because a company is the OEM of a good powersupply does not mean that the power supplies they manufacture are of the same quality and vice a verse.....

 

[Zebo]

If you don't want to hear it and want the best quality, Jap caps..huge HS..best electric stats.. I recommend Corsiar or Seasonic ~500W

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817139001

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817151024


yeah thier expensive but worth it powering all the new expensive gear plus you won't hear it.. most PSU's are very noisy these days because they are so powerful and need high rpm fans to cool them down.

Also I agree with Newf statement about gettng a better motherboard, Asrock is really scraping bottom of barrel and I sent two back myself with cold boot issues.

 

[dBTelos]

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda

Originally posted by: dBTelos

Originally posted by: acegazda
who are delta and acbel? I'd recommend the enhance 5140gh, or if you must have simplicity and order, the enermax liberty. I view the enhance as better quality (check it out) so that's my first recommendation.

Acbel is a OEM for some PSU brands (Coolermaster comes to mind). And Delta does mainly server PSUs IIRC, but they are pretty highend.

just because a company is the OEM of a good powersupply does not mean that the power supplies they manufacture are of the same quality and vice a verse.....

Why are you telling me this? I know, and what you posted has nothing to do with what I said.

 

[acegazda]

Originally posted by: Operandi

Originally posted by: acegazda
who are delta and acbel? I'd recommend the enhance 5140gh, or if you must have simplicity and order, the enermax liberty. I view the enhance as better quality (check it out) so that's my first recommendation.

Delta is one of the top tier PSU manufactures; they have 0 retail presence however so it's not a name your average enthusiast is familiar with.

Originally posted by: acegazda
The corsair is way overkill for that system. The 520w version has 49amps on the 12v rails combined. He will never, ever ultilize that. True, it is a very good quality psu, but his $110 is better spent elsewhere.

49A's would be 588 watts; think about it.

right.... srry it's 40amps for the 520w version and 50amps for the 620w flavor.

 

[Juno]

seasonic 380w.