grizaptimus Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 I have been putting together part lists, and doing my normal ammount of reaserch when upgrading. I have reasently run into a question that I have been unable to awnser. Will my Power Supply beable to handle the new componants. My Current System: Pentium D 950 @ 3.67 Foxconn 945P7AA Motherboard 2GB Corsair DDR2 800 HIS Radeon X1800GTO 1 74GB WD Raptor 3 250GB WD Hard Drives 1 160GB Maxtor IDE Hard Drive 2 IDE DVD-RW Drives Various ammounts of USB and Firewire Devices. All of this Running on my trusty "Antec TruePower 550" The Upgrade: Core 2 Quad Q6600 Gigabyte P35-DS3P 4GB GSkill DDR2 800 Nvidia 8800GT/GTS or Radeon HD 3870 (Just not sure yet) I am interested in overclocking this and that is where the question came from. Thank You all for your time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 Use this power supply calculator and check: http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp I calculated with the upgrades and 5 IDE hard drives (didn't say in your description if they were SATA or IDE) and a 320MB 8800GTS and the power supply requirement came to 366W. Thats without any USB devices, fans, additional peripherals. I think 550W power supply should work for your configuration, but its always better to have a little extra power. EDIT: I also tried calculating your power supply usage with NewEgg's PSU calculator: http://educations.newegg.com/tool/psucalc/index.html I put in a Intel Core 2 Quad series processor, a High End Desktop Motherboard, a GeForce 8800GTS Video Card, 2x1GB DDR2 RAM, 2xDVD-RW drives, 5x7200RPM Hard Drives and the total wattage came to a whopping 720W which I think is very inaccurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Yeah, 720 is overdoing it. Just get a powersupply compatible with your mobo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Yeah, 720 is overdoing it. Just get a powersupply compatible with your mobo. Well actually any ATX power supply is compatible with any ATX motherboard so if you have power intensive hardware you do have to plan a bit One way to reduce power consumption would be instead of having multilple small capacity hard drives, buy one or 2 big hard drives (750GB or 1TB) and put the other hard drives in external enclosures and use then for backup or something. pcwiz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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