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PSU that comes with the Antec Sonata

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Ahill

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I just purchased an Antec Sonata for my new system I am going to build. I plan on getting one of the new nf4 boards with a athlon 64 3000+, 2x512 ram, a pci-e 6600 gt, on 120 mm case fan, one Hd, and one CDROM.

Questions: Will the Antec trupower 380W psu that came with the case be able to handle this? i just wanted to know ahead of time so I dont have any suprises.
 
Ok I guess that was a dumb question🙂 Are there any thumbrules I can use to determine what kind of psu is required? Or is this something just based offf experience?
 
mostly based off experience, since i've yet to find a reliable and accurate psu calculator. you can pick each component you have and determine the amount of power it requires, but 380W is more then enough. people nowdays are just power hungry and everytime a larger psu comes out, they think they need it.

people with shuttle xpc's easily can run an fx-55, an x800 xt, 2 gb of ram, 2 raptors, a sound card, and etc on its 240W. believe it or not, the P4 3.0E requires more juice then the fx-55 and teh 6800 gt uses more power then the x800 xt. even so, people have managed to run an extreme edition and gt on an xpc. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Ahill
Ok I guess that was a dumb question🙂 Are there any thumbrules I can use to determine what kind of psu is required? Or is this something just based offf experience?
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somewhat experience oriented... but lets just say any Modern system should really get at least a 300

my rule of thumb is flawed, but it works anyways.

all are A64 or P4

basic video card
1 hdd
1 optical
300W is fine

more powerful video card
1 or 2 hdd
1 or 2 opticals
in the 350-380W range

most powerful video card
2 hdd+
2 opticals+
400W+ power

I really believe a quality 400 should be able to handle ANYTHING you throw at it within reason (not like 8 hard drives or anything)
 
Actually things are not that clear.
Apparently there is a difference between power concumption of PCI-E and AGP.
There is some tricky line from recent Nforce4 presentation:
they claim regular psu (350 Watt?) would suffice for 2 6600 cards but
for 2 6800 one will need 500+ watt psu. Now this math seems kinda strange to me.
CraigRT states 350 Watt is more than enough for 6800 Gt. Now what extra 6800 Gt
will consume 150 watt??
Can someone explain?
 
Originally posted by: CraigRT
I really believe a quality 400 should be able to handle ANYTHING you throw at it within reason (not like 8 hard drives or anything)
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anyone w/ 8 drives needs redundant PSU IMO. I mean you don't want your server crashing and being down for a week waiting for a new PSU from RMA. 🙂
 
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