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Can you get away with 350W PSUs for an athlon 64 PCI-E setup or is it likely to need 450+?



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should be ok how many drives ?
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in theory 2 IDE hard disks, probs 1 optical drive.



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i wouldnt risk it , for the sake of a few quid id upgrade the pcu to eliviate power probs .

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yeah i would have thought you'd want at least 400w, just a lot of places sell cases with 350w psu, suggesting you can get away with it.

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Don't take that to mean ANYTHING, 350 is the cheapest (and the smallest) PSU you can get, and I beleve that some GFX cards can take about 250W on there own. Also if I rememebr rightly the AMD64 takes atleast 120W as well.

The big question is what GFX card are you going to be running.

but I would say 450w min with any new system.

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Go for the larger, you would not want to have to upgrade again if you add more demanding components later in the computers life.



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i have a amd 64, 3.4ghz with 2 optical drives, 1 hard disk and ati x800 xt pe all running on a 350 watt psu
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thats the sort of thing spec im thinking about.

tis all just pipe dreams really.

i guess id see what the case was like and if it came with psu then give it a go, if i had problems, splash out on a nice quiet bad boy.



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Gama seriously replace that PSU!!! your going to kill it very soon with that setup. you are riding the bare miminum of a X800xt.

There is on reason to be running a low watt PSU a 550 wat one is only about £30..

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thats a good enough reason for me haha

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