To buy or not to buy?

K

kelp83

SLK1650B is on my mind, and comes with the Antec Smart Power 350

My current setting is
1 CD/RW ID
1 Maxtor IDE 200G
Pentium 4 Prescott 478 (3.0 GHz
2 X 512MB DDR 40
AGP ATI 128MB Radeon Pr
Sound Blaster Platinu

I just really want to know if I should buy this, I know the Prescot
is very power hungry so I'm wondering if the 350W is powerful enoug
to deal with it. A lot of places show that 18A at 12V should b
minumum but I don't know really, thought I did but some advice woul
be appreciated

My last power supply burned (650W Chieftec) I know not the best bran
but it did burn under 1 year. I'm not a huge gamer, but I do ru
Flight Sim and some high graphic games from time to time (no la
parties) Sim 2, Battlefield 2 , and MSFS of course

Thanks in advance
 
K

kelp83

Radeon 9700 128 Pr

and yeah, I don't have money for both the case and the power suppl
unless I go with a generic Prescott 4 case with the vents on th
sides and get a good supply maybe a Antec 430 T
 
M

Mike T.

kelp83 said:
SLK1650B is on my mind, and comes with the Antec Smart Power 350W

My current setting is:
1 CD/RW IDE
1 Maxtor IDE 200GB
Pentium 4 Prescott 478 (3.0 GHz)
2 X 512MB DDR 400
AGP ATI 128MB Radeon Pro
Sound Blaster Platinum

I just really want to know if I should buy this, I know the Prescott
is very power hungry so I'm wondering if the 350W is powerful enough
to deal with it. A lot of places show that 18A at 12V should be
minumum but I don't know really, thought I did but some advice would
be appreciated.

My last power supply burned (650W Chieftec) I know not the best brand
but it did burn under 1 year. I'm not a huge gamer, but I do run
Flight Sim and some high graphic games from time to time (no lan
parties) Sim 2, Battlefield 2 , and MSFS of course.

Thanks in advance.

I think it will work fine. If it wasn't a good brand, I'd say it would be
borderline. But 350W sounds great if you don't intend to upgrade this
system much. It is a good fit for what you have. -Dave
 
F

fleet

kelp83 said:
Radeon 9700 128 Pro

and yeah, I don't have money for both the case and the power supply
unless I go with a generic Prescott 4 case with the vents on the
sides and get a good supply maybe a Antec 430 TP
Well, considering it's an Antec PSU you may be fine. I wouldn't ever
recommend a cheap 350w from a company like Deer though. Years ago I had
an Enermax 350w and it wasn't even enough for a PIII 800 w/Geforce4
Ti4200 system. Kept getting random freezes which I traced to the PSU. I
bought a case with a 400w Antec and all was well. Enermax is rated high
though so I must have just got a bad one that slipped through testing.
It put me off Enermax PSU's though, I'm now using a 600w Seasonic -
rated as one of the best you can get. If I was looking for a cheap 350w
- 400w I would buy a Sparkle/Fortron PSU. I bought a Foxconn case and it
came with a 350w Fortron PSU. The case and PSU together cost only
$100.00 CAD.
 
J

Jan Alter

Well if it gives you any understanding of what the SLK1650B is capable of
handling I'm running one with an AMD 64 3000+ , two WD 250 gb hdds in raid 0
configuration and an NEC DVD burner. The graphics is on board the mb, so
that's a minimal draw. However, the rig runs fine, and is relatively quiet.
The one thing I don't like at all about the case is that in order to pull
off the side panel one litterally has to slide back the top cover and then
the side slides out. Not a big deal, but I prefer to be able to simply
remove a side to get to the case.
 
K

kelp83

Okay, got a new question. Instead of the case I know Power Supply i
first priority, so is a Antec Smart Power 2.0 500W enough for m
setup I had posted above
 
F

fleet

kelp83 said:
Okay, got a new question. Instead of the case I know Power Supply is
first priority, so is a Antec Smart Power 2.0 500W enough for my
setup I had posted above.

Plenty, and then some. I didn't know the Smartpower even came in 500w.
My Antec is a Smartpower 400w. What's more important is the amp rating
on the +12v rail. These days it is split two way so you would combine
the amp rating on the +12v 1 and +12v 2 rails. You can still find PSU's
with a single +12v rail though. The only real reason it was split was
because of Intel safety guidelines. My Seasonic has combined 36amp but
anything over 24amp is good. That's the recommendation anyway. I have a
Zalman 400w (modified Fortron) that only has 15amp on the +12v rail and
it can run this same system I'm using the 600w Seasonic on just fine. I
just bought the Seasonic 600w to be future upgrade ready.
 
L

larry moe 'n curly

kelp83 said:
SLK1650B is on my mind, and comes with the Antec Smart Power 350W
1 CD/RW IDE
1 Maxtor IDE 200GB
Pentium 4 Prescott 478 (3.0 GHz)
AGP ATI 128MB Radeon Pro
I'm wondering if the 350W is powerful enough

I think it will be because the cardboard box of my SLK1600 says that
the 300W SmartPower can run a 3 GHz system, not that I'd try it with an
NVidia 6800 graphics card. The 350W Antec may be on par with a 350W
Fortron-Source, which is one of the strongest 350W PSUs around (Tom's
got 454W from one, JonnyGuru 500W, probably for a shorter time period).


Here is an article showing what several different computer systems
actually consumed. The numbers are based on real measurments, not
estimates, which tend to be way off::
www.silentpcreview.com/article265-page1.html
 

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