What kind of PSU's do you use for ECS K7S5A Mobo?

[onza]

Thanks please let me know..

I was looking at newegg.. and looking at the low end enermax psu.. for like 33 bucks..

think that will do it??

onza

 

[Gumby16]

I'm looking at buying the same m/b. I've heard that it needs a well made power supply, so I think I'm gonna go with an Antec 300W, even though it's only running two drives and a Duron 800. I haven't heard anyone successfully running it with anything smaller than 300, and generic PS tend to not provide enough power on the 5V side.

 

[spanky]

i use a 300w antec

 

[PG]

That $33 Enermax says it's AMD approved so it should be fine.

 

[DanDrop]

I have built 2 comps using this ECS board. One is is using a Sparkle 300w (around $27) from newegg i believe. It has 1 cdrw, 1 dvd rom, 1 20gig hd, 2 fans and a matrox agp vid card,1x 256mb sdram, xp1800+. It is running stable and have not had any crashes for about a month now.

The Other computer is running with an onlder Wintop 250w power supply. I do not know anything about this PSU. It was pulled from my old P3 500mhz machine. The rig has 1 dvd rom, 1 20gig HD, 2 fans, 1 matrox agp card, 2x 128mb sdram, xp18000+. So far it has been stable and no crashes or wierd bios, cmos, problems so far (crossing fingers).

I am assuming that unless you are putting 4 HD's, 3 cdrom drives, overclocking etc., a 300w antec, sparkle or enermax will suffice. HOWEVER, if i were you, i'd go with a higher powered PSU for future expansions, a 400w or 450w would be a good bet.

 

[BUTCH1]

Running a 350 watt Allied, no problems, about $30 from newegg.

 

[Goi]

I use an Enlight 300W

 

[RWalker2]

afaik Enermax make some great PSUs and a 300 or 350W one should be sufficient however getting a 430W would last you for many more years for only $50 more

 

[incallisto]

I run Antec TrueBlue480s (has a blue LED in the fan) in my K7S5A rigs. I got them from my local CompUSA for $85 each.

 

[natopotato]

i've used enlight, enhance, powerman, and sparkle 300watt PSU's in my K7S5A builds. i like the sparkle best for the high output with low noise. the enhance is excellent but is rather noisy. the enlight is the quietest by far but it has the lowest +3.3v rating of all those PSU's. the enlight is fine for systems with a duron or low end XP(eg: 1500-1800+)without a ton of peripherals and/or a super high drain vid card.

 

[blade47]

Definetly go with a good name brand PS. The max wattage IMO isn't nearly as important as getting a quality PS. I was originally using a 300 watt AMD approved PS (can't recall the brand) and had random crashes alot. I swapped it with a 2 year old PS I had lying around which was an Aopen 250 watt PS that isn't AMD approved and it runs nice and stable now.

K7S5A
Athlon XP 1700 @ 1510 mhz
256 MB DDR Ram
40 gig IBM 7200 RPM HD
4x CD-RW Drive
GeForce 3 Ti200 @ Ti500 speeds
MX-300 Sound Card

Also have a couple of extra fans.

 

[Goi]

the enlight is fine for systems with a duron or low end XP(eg: 1500-1800+)

Well, my Enlight 300W is working fine on my Thunderbird 1.4GHz clocked at 1.5GHz on the K7S5A...