PDA

View Full Version : enermax 350w enough?


fuzzzy-1
03-02-04, 03:36 PM
im going to be running:
barton 2500+ @ 2.2g +
1hd
1g ram
radeon 9800pro
watercooling consisting of eheim 1250,whitewater wb ect.
now i have a PS that i bought about a year ago and its a enermax 350w and if i dont have too id rather keep it. Do you guys think i should go for a 400+w or will this work?

thanks bros
fuzz

runsalone
03-02-04, 03:45 PM
I think the enermax 350 would PROBABLY run it, if you didn't get carried away with the overclock.

I suppose it could limit your overclock, if you had many devices hooked up to it (say half a dozen hard disks).

If you only had one disk hooked up, and perhaps two optical drives, I would not bother to get a better PSU until after I determined it was the limiting factor in the overclocking process.

fuzzzy-1
03-02-04, 04:41 PM
yes i only have one optical drive + HD. Currently i have my barton 2500+ runnning at 2.2 on air. I can easily afford a new PS but dont want to if theres no point. How would i be able to determine if the PS was my determining factor and not something else?
thanks
fuzz

UjinR
03-02-04, 04:44 PM
Originally posted by fuzzzy-1
yes i only have one optical drive + HD. Currently i have my barton 2500+ runnning at 2.2 on air. I can easily afford a new PS but dont want to if theres no point. How would i be able to determine if the PS was my determining factor and not something else?
thanks
fuzz
For my rig it was not enough.
I got what you see in sig, plus 2 HDs, 1 TV-tuner, 5 case fans and my Radeon is O/Ced

jlin453
03-03-04, 11:36 AM
I had stability problems with my Enermax 350W a year ago. The problems went away when I bought a Fortron FSP350

larrymoencurly
03-04-04, 02:51 AM
Tom's said that a Fortron-made 300W PSU maxed out at 390W, or 1W more than a 350W Enermax they tested.

I don't know if all 350W Enermaxes are the same because I have a model EG365P-VD (single fan in rear) that has 680uF filter capacitors, compared to 820uF found in some of their others, and maybe the transformer is slightly smaller, too.