04-08-2006, 03:19 AM
DeeBye,Apr 7 2006, 06:42 PM Wrote:I'll never be running more than a single optical drive, a single HDD, and a single video card. 350W should be plenty for that. I've always been under the assumption that Antec PSUs were excellent and performed way better than their wattage figures suggest when compared to cheap no-name PSUs.
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I'm no expert on any of this, but just as a word of warning, I recently upgraded the video card on my system from a (fried) ATI 9800 PRO to a newly released GeForce 7800GS (I didn't want to switch to a whole new system with a PCIe mobo/cpu etc) with very good results. The minimum power requirement on the 7800GS is 350W, and as video cards go, it's not that power-hungry. I read of many, many problems from people with minimum power supplies (maybe not Antec's --- I don't know), and was very glad my power supply was 450W. I had zero problems with the upgrade.
Anyway, unless you plan to stick with exactly what you get now (and maybe you do), I don't think 350W a power supply is enough.