Should a 350w psu power this with no problems?

TechHead87

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Asus P4800-E mobo (w/onboard audio)
P4 3.0ghz chip
Muskin 1gb RAM
nvidia GeForce 6200
120gb WD h.d.
40gb Maxtor h.d.
30gb Maxtor h.d.
Sony CD-RW
Creative Labs webcam

My tech guru cousin seems to think my PSU's life is severly limited....

I plan on getting a 450w soon (for cooling upgrades), but should this 350w get me by during the time being?
 

aplefka

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Yeah. That's less than I'm running on my Antec TrueBlue or SmartBlue or whatever 350.
 

airfoil

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Yes.

I'm running the same config with 5 HDDs, one ODD and a Audigy2 Platinum plus a wireless PCI card. VGA is a Radeon 9700.
 

shoRunner

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depends on the quality. if its a generic then probably not, if its an antec/enermax/fortron etc yes
 

TechHead87

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My 30gb HDD started giving me 'disk read errors' before bootup, and I was thinking it was a power problem...but I guess not. I'm pretty sure there couldn't have been any physical damage to the disk, and it still gave me the error messages even AFTER I re-formatted...