Power Supply ?

[Patty]

Will an Enermax EG365P-VE (350w) power supply be enough to power the
following configuration? That's what I have and I'm rebuilding my system
after bad caps took out my ABIT KT7. I hate to have to spend even more to
get a higher wattage power supply if I can do without it at this time. I
wasn't planning on rebuilding just yet, but ABIT took that decision out of
my hands. (

Asus A7N8X DLX
AMD XP 2500+ CPU
512 MB DDR333
Samsung 16x DVD-ROM
Samsung CD-RW
IBM 120GB Harddrive
GeForce2 MX video card

That's about it, I think. Thanks much.

Patty

 

[-DraconuS-]

Hi

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Will an Enermax EG365P-VE (350w) power supply be enough to power the
following configuration?

Sure, it will be enough, there's even some power left ie. reserved for more
powerful video card if you plan such in the future...

 

[Doug Ramage]

Will an Enermax EG365P-VE (350w) power supply be enough to power the
following configuration? That's what I have and I'm rebuilding my system
after bad caps took out my ABIT KT7. I hate to have to spend even more to
get a higher wattage power supply if I can do without it at this time. I
wasn't planning on rebuilding just yet, but ABIT took that decision out of
my hands. (

Asus A7N8X DLX
AMD XP 2500+ CPU
512 MB DDR333
Samsung 16x DVD-ROM
Samsung CD-RW
IBM 120GB Harddrive
GeForce2 MX video card

That's about it, I think. Thanks much.

Patty

It is the 12v rail which is usually the most important with an Athlon XP or
P4 cpu.

Have a look here for some guidelines in estimating your PSU needs :

http://www.firingsquad.com/guides/power_supply/page2.asp

 

[sheer]

Fine

 

[Darkfalz]

Will an Enermax EG365P-VE (350w) power supply be enough to power the

I power

Pentium IV 3.0 GHz
P4P800 Dlx with onboard sound
512 DC DDR RAM
2 x ATA100 HDs
CDRW/DVD Combo drive
Floppy drive
Geforce FX 5200
2 rear exhaust fans, one front intake fan

All on 250 Watt.

 

[-DraconuS-]

Hi

I power

Pentium IV 3.0 GHz
P4P800 Dlx with onboard sound
512 DC DDR RAM
2 x ATA100 HDs
CDRW/DVD Combo drive
Floppy drive
Geforce FX 5200
2 rear exhaust fans, one front intake fan

All on 250 Watt.

Is it Enermax too?

 

[Darkfalz]

Hi



Is it Enermax too?

AOpen, which is one of the quality brands. It actually provides more
consistent power than a generic 400 Watt I have (checking any VCORE/12V+
drop under load).

 

[jeffc]

Will an Enermax EG365P-VE (350w) power supply be enough to power the
following configuration? That's what I have and I'm rebuilding my system
after bad caps took out my ABIT KT7. I hate to have to spend even more to
get a higher wattage power supply if I can do without it at this time. I
wasn't planning on rebuilding just yet, but ABIT took that decision out of
my hands. (

By the way, it's not that hard to replace those caps. I just did it on my
Abit.

 

[Patty]

But why would I want to even bother with the cost and work to replace the
caps on an outdated board? I'll get so much more with the Asus board.
Besides, I shouldn't have to replace the caps in the first place if the
board would have been reliable. Right now I'm running an old Biostar board
(300 Mhz processor) and I've just seen old, old original pentium boards
retired, not because parts went out on them but just because they were too,
too old (running 75Mhz processor) and should be retired. I should have had
to replace the KT7 for other reasons, not because it died due to bad caps.

Patty

 

[Ed]

But why would I want to even bother with the cost and work to replace the
caps on an outdated board? I'll get so much more with the Asus board.
Besides, I shouldn't have to replace the caps in the first place if the
board would have been reliable. Right now I'm running an old Biostar board
(300 Mhz processor) and I've just seen old, old original pentium boards
retired, not because parts went out on them but just because they were too,
too old (running 75Mhz processor) and should be retired. I should have had
to replace the KT7 for other reasons, not because it died due to bad caps.

Patty

I had a KT7, it started acting up after 9 months, I didn't see any bad
CAPs leaking, so I said screw it I came back to ASUS, sorry I ever
left!
Ed

 

[Patty]

I had a KT7, it started acting up after 9 months, I didn't see any bad
CAPs leaking, so I said screw it I came back to ASUS, sorry I ever
left!
Ed

I don't want to bash abit, but I had problems with this board from the
get-go. System freezes, crashes. Mostly freezes requiring a reboot. I
reinstalled Windows 98SE over and over again, per the instructions of the
place I bought the board from. They kept telling me it was a problem with
the windows install. I purchased a new harddrive, thinking maybe the board
didn't like the Maxtor drive I had. After much work and research of
newsgroups, I finally got it fairly stable. Never had a board give me so
much grief. Now, it looks like it will die soon (my daughter's died almost
exactly 3 years after we built the system and I've got two more months
before my 3 year anniversary.)

I was told by an acquaintance that he has always stayed with Asus because
Asus backs their products, even having a recall on bad boards once. Too bad
Abit didn't think the capacitor problem warranted any action on their part
except their acknowledgement of the problem. As I've said before, I have
motherboards that are more than 6 years old still running, I expected that
this one would also last and when I was ready to replace it, I would just
recycle it over to my secondary system (running an old Biostar M5ATB w/AMD
K-6 300Mhz processor). Looks like I'll be keeping the old Biostar for my
secondary system now.

Sorry to be so long-winded here, but I am not happy with this situation.
Gave my daughter $350.00 to set her up with the new Asus board (which she is
very happy with, btw) and I'll be shelling out cash again to replace my
board, probably in the next few months.

Patty