what size PS for a TBIRD

[alchemist]

Well what size PS should i buy for my new 1 gig TBIRD AXIA I plan on OC soon and will have a CD and Burner and two HD's max. Running a MX2 dual head vid card and 512 mb memory so what size should i go for, will 300watt cut it or do i need more

 

[Jex]

300W should be fine. I'm running all that and more on a 300W and I'm experiencing some problems, but I think it's more to blame on my vid card and not the PSU.

On the other hand, if you're putting a sweet system together, what's another $75 to get a 400+W PSU and not worry about it.

 

[anandweirdo]

300 or 350 😛 what ever you have cash for.

 

[Torghn]

Obvioulsy more is better, I've got a ton running on my 300 without any problems. A friend of mine has got a TBird 1200 running on his 250W power supply without any problems, but I'd recomend getting at least 300.

 

[JimMc]

Quality of the PS is perhaps even more important that the rated watts--I'll take a 300 watt Sparkle, Enermax or PC Power & Cooling any day of the week over some no-name 400W unit. Wattage is really kind of overated--clean, consistent juice is more important that the nominal wattage. You're not buying a hair dryer, after all. A quality 300W unit will power your system with no problem.

 

[airjrdn]

My case came with a 250W and I'm running an Asus A7V133, a 1.33Ghz AMD, GeForce2 Pro 256M PC133, a sound card and a network card. I was able to overclock to 1424Mhz until I added the ThermoEngine Pro fan from www.3dcool.com. At that point it wasn't even stable at 1400Mhz. I bought a 400W power supply from a local shop and now it's humming smoothly at 1500Mhz. Obviously it made a difference. I do have 2 case fans which draw a little current I guess.

I would get at least a 300W power supply, and more definitely wouldn't hurt. 😉

 

[V]

I would get a 350w PS just in case 300w isn't enough. I would get a 400w if you are running a lot of components.