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Martin C
I will be considering doing a self build PC in the near future as my current
system is way too old.
I was thinking about buying the Antec SLK1650B case, which comes with an
Antec 350W PSU in the price of the case.
My new machine will not be state of the art, probably more like the
following:-
ASRock 939 Dual-SATA2 motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3.2GHz CPU
3 hard drives,
2 optical drives (maybe just the one, but I want to consider the possibility
of having 2)
GForce 6800 graphics card (or equivalent)
1GByte RAM
And apart from the usual things like USB scanner, joysticks, graphics
tablet, mouse etc, that is about it.
Although at present, I do not play much in the way of stressful games (for
the computer that is), I will obviously be able to play more modern games
with the significantly upgraded machine.
I will probably want to overclock the CPU, but not by much. I prefer to have
a more stable machine with a bit more power than a potentially unstable one
with much more speed.
I have been told that any system these days with decent specs needs to
consider a PSU with 400W minimum.
Is this statement correct, or will the Antec PSU supplied be sufficient for
my needs since Antec is quite a good make.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
system is way too old.
I was thinking about buying the Antec SLK1650B case, which comes with an
Antec 350W PSU in the price of the case.
My new machine will not be state of the art, probably more like the
following:-
ASRock 939 Dual-SATA2 motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3.2GHz CPU
3 hard drives,
2 optical drives (maybe just the one, but I want to consider the possibility
of having 2)
GForce 6800 graphics card (or equivalent)
1GByte RAM
And apart from the usual things like USB scanner, joysticks, graphics
tablet, mouse etc, that is about it.
Although at present, I do not play much in the way of stressful games (for
the computer that is), I will obviously be able to play more modern games
with the significantly upgraded machine.
I will probably want to overclock the CPU, but not by much. I prefer to have
a more stable machine with a bit more power than a potentially unstable one
with much more speed.
I have been told that any system these days with decent specs needs to
consider a PSU with 400W minimum.
Is this statement correct, or will the Antec PSU supplied be sufficient for
my needs since Antec is quite a good make.
Thanks for any help you can provide.