Ken Blake, MVP

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 11:12:00 -0700, K8 notsogrand
<K8notsogrand@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Hi
> I've been surching the internet for a new power supply. And found that
> there's every thing from 300w to 1000w and with a wide price range.
> I don't know if I should stay with a 500w or can I go smaller like 465w or
> go bigger?
> I'm not planing to use two video cards or anything.
> maybe a second hard drive but nothing that would need 1000w's
>
> My old one was a 500w 20+4 pin.
>
> It will be powering;
> K8nha grand with NF3 250Gb chipset
> AMD Athlon 64 2.1ghz 3000+
> Radeon 512Mb 1600 pro
> two sound cards (a sound blaster Audigy 2 and Echo, Darla )
> One DVD burner 16X16
> two maybe three case fans with LCD lights


I don't see any reason why you need anything near 500W. 300W is
probably plenty.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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