will a 300 watt Antec PS be enough for these goods? (details inside)

[gorka]

my roomie just picked up a system with the following components. unfortunatley it didn't come with a PS. I was thinking an Antec 300 watt PS would suffice. just wanted to check with you PS gurus first.

thanks all!


Classic Athlon 850Mhz (slot-a)
Abit K7A motherboard
1x IBM 40GB GXP HD
512mb PC 133 SDRAM
Radeon 64mb DDR

1 Pioneer DVD-104S
1 Plexwriter 12/10/32a
SB Live value
2x 92mm case fans
2x 80mm case fans
1 slot fan

[Stoffie]

Antec psu's are usually very high quality and AMD approved to boot, so I think it should be fine.

If it's not, you'll notice...

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The question is, why am I having so much trouble dying?

[AuRoCuL]

Shouldn't be any problem using it. antec makes some real quality components. As long as you aren't burning cd's while watching the Matrix for the hundredth time and installing Quake 3 and listening to some jams all at the same time you should even be hitting close to 300 Watt usage. Good Luck

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AMD Thunderbird 1GHZ
Asus A7V
256MB of no name memory
40GB of no name hard drive
16MB TNT2 (soon 2 B GF3)
SB Live 5.1
Case: Mid Tower Enlight 7237
Blah Blah Blah

[AuRoCuL]

sorry, meant to say shouldn't even be hitting 300watts.

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AMD Thunderbird 1GHZ
Asus A7V
256MB of no name memory
40GB of no name hard drive
16MB TNT2 (soon 2 B GF3)
SB Live 5.1
Case: Mid Tower Enlight 7237
Blah Blah Blah

[Shinma]

The Antec components has a very good reputation but
You may want to consider an Enermax PSU if it costs less in your area,
Since both are of equivalent level of quality.

I have Antec's that came with the cases.

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Cheers.

[This message has been edited by Shinma (edited 07-05-2001).]

[gorka]

thanks for the replies guys.

Shinma:

Yeah, been looking at the Enermax PS as well. the Enermax seems to be a favorite in this board.

Antecs are cheaper in my area. although, the Antec 350watt PS which is only about 10$ more on Pricewatch than the 300 watt version, could be another option.

thanks again.

[This message has been edited by gorka (edited 07-05-2001).]

[AMDnut]

The Antec should work fine for you. I'm running one in my Antec SX1030 case with the following hardware:

(3) - 7200rpm Maxtor HDD's (2 in a RAID array)
(1) - Creative 52x CD-Rom
(1) - HP 9110i Burner
(1) - IDE Internal Zip drive
(4) - 80mm Case fans
(1) - 60mm Delta fan
Prophet GeForce2 MX
Abit KT7-RAID w/Duron@920
Creative Ensoniq Soundcard
Creative ISA ModemBlaster
Visioneer USB Scanner
Kodak 3500 USB docking station

As you can see, I'm using a few watts! No problems at all. I do however second Shinma on the Enermax. If I did not already have the Antec PS with the Antec case, I would have purchased the Enermax 431 unit, but it's quite a bit more expensive! You may also want to look at the Antec 400w model, it's priced reasonable as well.

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Duron 700@920 (115FSB*8x)
Abit KT7 RAID
256mb Crucial @ CAS2
(2)Maxtor Diamondmax+ 7200rpm ATA100 30GB@RAID 0
Hercules Prophet II MX 200/200
HP9110i Burner
Delta 50x CD-Rom

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[netdude]

It'll be fine i'm running about the same with a $39 CompUSA 300 watt ATX power supply and never had a problem with anything.