300w or 400w psu required?

I'm thinking of building a PC along the following lines;

Lian-Li PC-6070 case
Asus P4C800 Deluxe mobo
Pentium 4 2.8mhz 800fsb
Gigabyte Maya II Radeon 9700 pro
Barracuda 7200.7 120GB SATA150
Sony 52x CD/RW
Poss additional IDE HDD

Will I need a 400w psu or is 300w ok?

TIA

Kenchie

400W. I have a Antec Truepower 380W and that is fine. Many people have tried
a 300W with the P4C800 and it has failed to POST until they put in a big
PSU.


"Kenchie" <me@me.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1962ada27c9335af9896a1@news.zen.co.uk...
> I'm thinking of building a PC along the following lines;
>
> Lian-Li PC-6070 case
> Asus P4C800 Deluxe mobo
> Pentium 4 2.8mhz 800fsb
> Gigabyte Maya II Radeon 9700 pro
> Barracuda 7200.7 120GB SATA150
> Sony 52x CD/RW
> Poss additional IDE HDD
>
> Will I need a 400w psu or is 300w ok?
>
> TIA
>
> Kenchie

I put it to you, Dirk Puslich, that on 24 Jun 2003 13:43:02 -0700 you
did state the following:
> 300W should be okay if it is a top quality PS (like Antec). I'd
> recommend something higher though. Go for an Antec SmartBlue 350
> watter or a TrueBlue 480 watt, you also get some blue LED bling-bling
> with the power supply to help pimp up your Lian Li case. May want to
> get a Radeon 9800 pro for a little extra juice too. also you didn't
> mention RAM. Go for a minium of 512MB of PC3200 or 1GB to be safe,
> and don't chince on the RAM - go for Kingston, Corsair or another good
> brand.
>

I want it to be quiet, so I'll probably go for a Zalman (if I can find a
UK stockist!) or QuietPC PSU. I'm going for 512mb ram to start with, can
always upgrade to 1gb later. Thanks for the assistance.

Kenchie.

I've heard some good reviews about the Zalman PSUs being super quiet. You
could try www.quietpc.com or you could try www.theoverclockingstore.co.uk or
www.overclockers.co.uk

J.


"Kenchie" <me@me.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1962cbdae73f01df9896a2@news.zen.co.uk...
> I put it to you, Dirk Puslich, that on 24 Jun 2003 13:43:02 -0700 you
> did state the following:
> > 300W should be okay if it is a top quality PS (like Antec). I'd
> > recommend something higher though. Go for an Antec SmartBlue 350
> > watter or a TrueBlue 480 watt, you also get some blue LED bling-bling
> > with the power supply to help pimp up your Lian Li case. May want to
> > get a Radeon 9800 pro for a little extra juice too. also you didn't
> > mention RAM. Go for a minium of 512MB of PC3200 or 1GB to be safe,
> > and don't chince on the RAM - go for Kingston, Corsair or another good
> > brand.
> >
>
> I want it to be quiet, so I'll probably go for a Zalman (if I can find a
> UK stockist!) or QuietPC PSU. I'm going for 512mb ram to start with, can
> always upgrade to 1gb later. Thanks for the assistance.
>
> Kenchie.

On 24.06.2003 22:58, Kenchie wrote:
> I want it to be quiet, so I'll probably go for a Zalman (if I can find a
> UK stockist!) or QuietPC PSU. I'm going for 512mb ram to start with, can
> always upgrade to 1gb later. Thanks for the assistance.

I am running a 380Watt Antec True Power in my Lian-Li 6089, and I am
very satisfied with it. It's quiet, stable, and has all the plugs I'd
ever want
Actually, the loudest component is the air bubbles popping in the
Lian-Li fish tank )

Cheers

Sascha




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