SC-750A power supply?

[LintMan]

Howdy,

I have a Supermicro SC-750A full size tower case I bought about 2 years ago. I'm planning on a massive upgrade of my old 433 Celery to a new Athlon 1.4GHz, along with upgrades to almost everything else as well.

The case has a 300W power supply, but I don't know if it's AMD approved or will be adaequate for the task ahead. It does fine in my current system, with 3 old SCSI hard disks, 2 SCSI CD-ROMS, and 6 case fans. The old SCSI hard disks will be replaced with a big new disk, but with the added load to the ps of the AMD CPU, and a GF3 card I'm wondering if I need to upgrade the power supply.

How hard is it to upgrade the ps in this case? (The last time I looked at a case's power supply it was years ago, and the ps was irreplacably bolted to the case.) What's a reasonable amount to spend on a new ps? Would it be worth shooting for a 400W supply instead?

Thanks!

 

[Ferretwulf]

Open your case, look at the brand and model number then check it against AMD's List of Approved PSUs.

If you case is a few years old, and you got it with the normal shipping PSU, then you probably have either a 300W Sparkle PSU, or 300W PowerMan PSU (economy Sparkle subsidiary), both of which are approved PSUs.

It would still be in your best interest to open the case and look.

 

[nicowju]

Yeah I had an AMD system running in my 750A with the 300W Sparkle power supply, and its definitely AMD approved. Ran everything well, and a whole lot mroe as well

 

[LintMan]

Thanks for the help, guys!

 

[Mday]

mine came with a sparkle.

i have a celeron2 on an asus cusl2-c and i replaced my power supply witha 430w enermax. why? because i have more drives than the sparkle could handle.

my drives:
DVD-ROM
CD-ROM
CD-RW
3 7200 rpm IDE drives
floppy

i realized i needed a new ps when i added the 3rd HDD. the system would not power on at all (unless i unplugged some things). so i used an at ps to power some components, and the system did turn on.

now i have a new ps =)