Will a 4 year old Enermax 350W PSU be sufficient to power an Athlon 64 2800+
754pin CPU? Or will I need something more powerful for this particular
processor?
I'm planning to combine this with:
Asus K8V-SE Deluxe motherboard
2 x 512Mb PC 3200 RAM
2 x 200Gb SATA HDD
GeForce 6800 Pro or ATI Radeon X800 graphics card
DVD Writer
...and about 5 x 8cm fans
Cheers
I did some calculations of power usage at some websites that have such
things at their site and sure its rough but mine came out sort of
marginal - AMD 939 /ATI 800xl / 3 HDs at the time and two burners .
Itll probably run but it may be marginal . Im not sure how power
hungry the 6800s are but I remember everyone claiming they used a fair
amount, I remember initially they had some outrageously high figures
that were resommended but they lowered them but they were still fairly
high. I was using a 400 Antec smart power PS and the 12 volt reading
was a bit low. I switched to a 500 watt recently and it maybe my
imagination but it does seem to be running a bit better, The readings
are much higher and some of the little problems I had seem to be gone
, some glitches in usage though that may be just the usual head
tricks that happen when you change parts and you convince yourself
things are different or better.
I maybe wrong but I think Ive read the ATIs used less power.
