Will my power supply hang?

[wickley]

I've been rebuilding my system lately, and I currently have the following parts for my work in progress:

Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
ADM 3700+ (San Diego) w/ stock cooling
Lite-On DVD/CD-RW combo drive
Hitachi T7K250 250GB
2x256 Mushkin CL2
Thermaltake Armor case
Antec True380S (from the Sonata I, my old case)
PCI Radeon 7000 (only thing I had that would work in this board)

What I'm looking at is upgrading the Video Card, Memory, and Power Supply, in that order, but I can only afford 1 component per month.

So in order to game on this thing as quickly as possibe I was going to order the EVGA 7800GT ( 256-P2-N516) video card this month, followed by other components.

Will my current power supply be able to support that video card with my current parts for a couple of months?

Here's a good breakdown on the PS specs:
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article61-page1.html


Thanks for any advice.

 

[essasin]

You will not have enough juice to power yoursetup with that video card. I would suggest at least a 450 watt powersupply. I would suggest the ocz 520w powerstream, xclio 450nl 450w, or the silversttone zesus 650w thats on sale right now for 100 bucks at outpost.

 

[FDF12389]

No, 14A an the 12v wont be enough. I like this power supply:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817104934

 

[LOUISSSSS]

you'll need the 1K from PCPC -=]
no seriously...

 

[wickley]

According to a few of the power supply calculators online I'll be pushing about 350 for the time being. I was more concerned with the amps on the 12v. There's only one 12v rail and it's rated at 18amps. While the 1K would be an impressive bit of overkill, I'm not going to need that much power anytime soon. (just like I'd never be able to fill a 10MB hard drive back in the day, but that's another story)

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
you'll need the 1K from PCPC -=]
no seriously...

 

[Bull Dog]

You need a more powerful PSU. Anything in the $100+ range should work fine.

 

[zagood]

A good budget PSU...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817104954

Also read this thread:
http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?t=136602

-z

 

[anandtechrocks]

I'm sure you would be fine... You would be pushing it, but I built a PC for a friend and it used the exact same Sonota PSU.

Here were its components: P4 Presscott 3.2 GHz, 6800 GT factory OC, Corsair XMS 3200 DDR, 160 GB IDE HDD, and two optical drives.

The Presscott pulls a lot more power than the AMD and I think the 6800 GT and the 7800 GT are very similar in power requirements. I'd say try it out. I'm almost positive you will be fine.

 

[wickley]

I've just ordered the Enermax Liberty 500W. Great reviews overall. Just have to wait another month for the video card.

 

[robertk2012]

get a PSU first