I am going to use the following Items to build my computer and would like to know what Watt of a power supply should I use. Currently I am deciding to get a 500 Watt power supply.
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Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra Athlon 64 Skt939 DDR ATX Motherboard w/Audio, Gigabit LAN, RAID/Serial ATA Retail
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Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Processor Socket 939 Retail
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Video Card: ATI All-In-Wonder X1900 PCI Express 256MB DDR3 Video Card Retail
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Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Sound Card Retail
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Spearker System: Logitech Z-5450 Digital 5.1 Speaker System Retail
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Microphone: Plantronics .Audio 300 Noise-Canceling Microphone Retail
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Amount of Ram : 4GB
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Hard Disks: 2 500 GB that will be configured RAID 0 for 1 Terabyte (I like to have complete collections of TV shows and those files are HUGE!)
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2006-08-12 21:40:49 · 5 answers · asked by 13yearoldComputerNerd 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Case: Logisys CS888UVBL Assembled UV Blue Acrylic Case (Clear) Retail
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Case Fans: 4 80 mm fans
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Optical Drives:
2 DVD Dual Format DVD+RW Drives
1 Floppy disk Drive
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Mice and Keyboard:
Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 3000 Laser Retail
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Monitor: Acer AL1916WAb 19in LCD Monitor (Black) Retail
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Wireless Network Adapter:
Linksys WMP54GS Wireless-G PCI Adapter w/SpeedBooster Retail
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Processor Fan: Thermaltake CL-P0200 Silent 939 KU CPU Cooler Retail
2006-08-12 21:46:43 · update #1
Yeah 2.5 K, for a 6K machine (cheked with Alienware) since I'm building it myself although it will take me 2 years to raise enough money so maybe it may be only 1.5K by the time I get enough. Lastly, it is going to be a media center pc. (I have the remote and the cd bought seperately as OEM)
2006-08-12 21:49:04 · update #2
This is the power supply I am currently going to buy:
Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-500 500W Power Supply
2006-08-12 22:18:26 · update #3
Fasttrack most of our sentence is understandable but please edit it and this time use your gramar skills I can hardly understand what you mean in the end.
2006-08-12 22:20:22 · update #4
Zipzoomfly.com is my MAIN place (some items i couldn't find) (although two day shipping is awesome)
2006-08-12 22:21:16 · update #5
Don't go by Watts alone. You have to check the Amps being provided on each rail. Most importantly, check the Amps being provided on the +12V rail. For your setup, you'll probably want it to be in the 30's.
2006-08-13 01:33:56 · answer #1 · answered by Spheres of Influence 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That will be a nice machine.
I'm not an expert on these things, but I'll basically guaranty that you'll be fine with a 500 Watt. You'd probably be ok with a 400 Watt, but I wouldn't go much lower than that.
2006-08-13 04:46:39 · answer #2 · answered by Michael M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
500 watt will be sufficient. you are going for very good machine...I am sure you will go for higher size monitor...if you are going to take power from CPU you for your monitor also better increase to 600 to 750 watts
2006-08-13 05:16:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
overkill on the ram, 2gig is plenty
450-500 watt, but buy brand name ps, you spending on the rest so u dont want a ps thats gunna die in 2 months.
antec?
2006-08-13 04:51:00 · answer #4 · answered by phill281 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
500watt should be fine..... just make sure you get a QUALITY one, such as TAGAN / AKASA / Zalman, etc..... I started off a PC building project last week...... fitted one made by TAGAN, seems very well put together.
2006-08-13 05:18:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋