will an Antec True Power 430W power all this?

[Anubis]

Its what i currently have and im upgradeing and this is what i will have after the upgrade

Mobile Barton 2400+ that will be OCed as high as possiable
Shuttle nForce2 Ultra 400 Mobo
2x 512 Ram
DVD Drive
Plextor DVD Burner
Floppy
4 case fans all running on 4pins
Vantec Tornado on 4pin for Heat sink fan

Maxtor 40gig 7200 rpm 2mb
Seagate 40gig 7200 rpm 2mb
WD 80 gig 7200 rpm 8mb
Seagate 120 gig 7200 rpm 2MB
Seagate 160 gig 7200 rpm 8mb

GF4 TI4600
Sb Audigy
Hauppage TV Tuner
Primice PCI IDE card

and a various ammount of USB 2 things, card readers, keyboard, mouse, MP3 player tranfser....

 

[johnnnny5]

with that many hdd's and devices... I'd probably go with a 480 or above...

I have the TruePower 430 in 2 computers right now.. and while it's great, I wouldn't want to power that many devices with it.

Then again, I'm very conservative.

 

[Anubis]

yea i was afarid of that, i dont wanna buy a new one tho

 

[johnnnny5]

well, maybe try adding devices one by one... it might power it all... I just have never tried to push mine

 

[HokieESM]

The hard drives and "peripherals" won't be much of a problem. Neither will the optical drives. The GF4 isn't a power hog (we're not talking a 6800u here). If ANYTHING would give the True430 a problem, its the overclock. The "standard" amount of power that a AXP2400 uses wouldn't be remotely a problem--but overclockers tend to give a lot of "juice". You could always try it--and run Prime95 to see.

There's an interesting forum topic (a sticky in the Power Supplies section) at forums.silentpcreview.com about how much a quality 300W psu will handle. Its somewhat enlightening. Just to give you an idea, I'm running a P4 2.4B and 1.5GB of PC1066 with 3 HDDs and a GF4 4200 on a 300W Fortron PSU.

EDIT: Here's the PSU topic at SPCR. Check out digitalix's post a few down... his system is comparable to yours in terms of power. on a 300W PSU.

 

[robcy]

That is quite a set up. I think your main problem will be at startup when all those HDD's begin to spin. I would try a very high quality 550W.

 

[Anubis]

weill its currently running
Xp1700+
epox 8kha+ mobo
dvd drive
plextor burner
2x 512 Ram
DVD Drive
Plextor DVD Burner
Floppy
5 case fans includeing the vantec 3 are 120mm sunnons 2 on 4 pins 1 on 2pin an 80mm papst and a 92mm papst
60mm delta screamer on the heat sink

Maxtor 40gig 7200 rpm 2mb
Seagate 40gig 7200 rpm 2mb
WD 80 gig 7200 rpm 8mb
Seagate 120 gig 7200 rpm 2MB

GF4 TI4600
Sb Audigy
Hauppage TV Tuner
Primice PCI IDE card
NIc card

 

[SniperWulf]

ya, it can handle it.

I have an Antec 400w (the one before the True 430) and I've had a helluva lot more devices running days on end with it.

 

[heresiarh]

430 should be fine, i have that many devices in my comp.

 

[peter7921]

I have the same Power Supply (Antec 430) and am currently running:

P4 3.0 GHz C
Asus P4C800E
2X512MB
CD-RW
DVD+/-RW
Floppy
4 case fans all running on the 4 pin molex like your machine

2 Seagate 120 GB HD's (serial-ATA in a RAID 0)
1 Seagate 120 GB (PATA)
1 Maxtor 60 GB (PATA)

ATI 9700 Pro (AIW)
SB Audigy 2 platinum
Modem & extra NIC also

As you can see i have similar power requirements as you nad have had no problem using the Antec Truepower 430 Watt. I have 4 HD's instead of 5 but my CPU is more power hungry than the mobile barton. Plus what you are running now is pretty similar to what you are upgrading to Power wise. I say try it.

 

[MrMaster]

Having a good power supply makes a huge difference. I think your truepower430(same as mine) will work just fine.

 

[Anubis]

"peter7921" thanks your 9700 takes a 4 pin also does it not?

seeing as it can run that i "should" be ok, i can always not use one of thr 40gig HDs also

 

[beatle]

Your 430 should handle it with no problems. I have a 330 powering my P4 rig. Harddrives rarely use more than 10 watts each, even scsi drives.

 

[Crusty]

350w here running...
xp2000+
512 ddr
60gb 7200
3x 18gb 10k RPM scsi drives
1 9gb 10k RPM scsi drive
SB Audigy 2 Plat w/ Live Drive
DVD-burner
CD-Burner
2 nics
9600xt
6 case fans

a few card readers, my DV cam...i think you will be fine

 

[Chu]

Originally posted by: Anubis
Its what i currently have and im upgradeing and this is what i will have after the upgrade

Mobile Barton 2400+ that will be OCed as high as possiable
Shuttle nForce2 Ultra 400 Mobo
2x 512 Ram
DVD Drive
Plextor DVD Burner
Floppy
4 case fans all running on 4pins
Vantec Tornado on 4pin for Heat sink fan

Maxtor 40gig 7200 rpm 2mb
Seagate 40gig 7200 rpm 2mb
WD 80 gig 7200 rpm 8mb
Seagate 120 gig 7200 rpm 2MB
Seagate 160 gig 7200 rpm 8mb

GF4 TI4600
Sb Audigy
Hauppage TV Tuner
Primice PCI IDE card

and a various ammount of USB 2 things, card readers, keyboard, mouse, MP3 player tranfser....

I have almost the eact same setup, except I only have 1 stick of memory and my fans are lower current drawers (6x Panaflo's). My TruePower 420 has no problems, an I have the VCORE at 1.65V.

-Chu

 

[EeyoreX]

Your PSU will be fine. Don't fall into the "more is better" myth. Quality counts, and Antec = quality.

\Dan

 

[GoSharks]

it should be just fine.
i have a 300 watt unit running dual p3 1ghz, 3x 10krpm drives, 1x 5400rpm, r8500, 3 sticks ram, bunch of fans, etc. its quality, not quantitiy.

 

[Adul]

it will be more then enough.
Hell my current PC has all this on a 300 watt (4 years old) antec.
athlon XP 2400+
Radeon 9800 Pro
1GB PC 3200
1 DVD-R
1 DVD-RW
1 CD-RW
5 CASE Fans
Reohbus from vantec
Zalman 7000 al/cu
1 Raptor
1 160 Maxtor
1 floppy
1 nic
1 TV Tuner Card
1 Asus nForce2 MB

To many people have bought into you mus have a 400+ watt bullsh!t.

350 will do fine for a majority of us out there. hell even 300 would do.

 

[imported_Nacelle]

Antec trublue 480
XP 2700 on nForce 2
Radeon 9800
768 ram
Audigy Platinum
TV tuner
NIC
Modem
Raid Controler
DVD and CD Burner
4 HD
3 Thermaltake fans
all 6 usb ports filled

Runs great!

 

[jhurst]

Might be time to consolidate some of those hard drives.....with prices being down on hard drives....you could sell off all those drives and get you a couple of 160gb

 

[JBT]

I think it will handle it but what about ditching some of those smaller drives? with that many I would worry about all the heat generated rather than the power. Aren't they kind of slow too? But I guess if you need that extra 80 GB... Eh I guess it doesn't matter though I just don't like alot of spare stuff that I don't really use that often hanging out in my case.

 

[OCedHrt]

I think it should be fine. My Antec TruePower 330W powers 2600+ XP-M @ default, 512 PC2700 at 2.7v, 200GBx2, 120GBx2, DVDRW, DVDROM, CDRW, Radeon 8500, and the rest is integrated. So with the 430 adding 100W should be fine for the 2 extra HD's and the possibly more power hungry GF4.

 

[phreaqe]

Here

check this out. this will give you a VERY rough idea of how much power you need. some of those numbers are off. but like i said. it is a very rough estimate.

 

[Thoreau]

My guess is that that PSU could handle it. I have the same PSU (came with the case) running everything shown here -> http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=23118

Also have a 120mm fan sitting on top of the case, plugged in externally, to fan myself on those hot days and about 3-4 other USB devices. No problems at all. =)