Hi all. I will be building a long overdue system in the next month and I was wondering if I'd be better off with a 550 watt beast or will a 430 watt do just fine. Either way the PSU will be Enermax. Here are the components:
Barton 3000 in Asus A7N8X deluxe with 2 512MB sticks of Corsair PC3200, 2 IBM HDD's with 180GB each in raid-0 with a Highpoint rocketRAID 404 controller, ATI's future R350 graphics card, sound blaster augidy2, dvd-rom, cd-rw, and in the future i will buy a dvd-rw.
Also I was wondering if the PSU says it supports the K7 (Athlon), does that mean it will also support BARTON?
I don't mind shelling out the extra 50 or 60 for the 550W to ensure stability in this system. Would I be cutting it close by going with the 430watt with all these parts?
-TIA
Barton 3000 in Asus A7N8X deluxe with 2 512MB sticks of Corsair PC3200, 2 IBM HDD's with 180GB each in raid-0 with a Highpoint rocketRAID 404 controller, ATI's future R350 graphics card, sound blaster augidy2, dvd-rom, cd-rw, and in the future i will buy a dvd-rw.
Also I was wondering if the PSU says it supports the K7 (Athlon), does that mean it will also support BARTON?
I don't mind shelling out the extra 50 or 60 for the 550W to ensure stability in this system. Would I be cutting it close by going with the 430watt with all these parts?
-TIA