Power supply enough?

i will be getting an AMD 1700 and overclocking to 2.5+ (if i can), i currently have a 350 wat power supply but something tells me i need a bit more....

What would be enough? 450? 550?

I am currently planning to get a 550 since the price difference between 550 and 650 watt power supplies is around 50 bucks...

550 enough? What do you guys use? and what do you overclock?

check out the stickys here for mor info as a 300 Watt from X is not the same as the 300W from the next guy
http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=42
If the 350W PSU you have is made by SPI or FSP you will be fine

Wow, originally i thought this was such a stupid post of me and was planning to delete it...

You have no idea how much your reply helped me, thank you so very much, now i know what i am getting into....


Well i have found a BUNCH of cheap (were talkin 26 bucks or less) power supplies rated 550W, I am going to put a little back into the community by calling the vendors and asking for their ratings and stuff....

I am going to figure out whats the best power supply for the price, matter of fact im gona start a whole new thread about it, and maybe people can chip in and help, but should i start it here? watercooling forum? or where would be the best place?

The most agreed upon power for price PSU’s are the Sparkles (SPI) / Fortron (FSP) same people different names, and if you read the sticky called will a XXX watt PSU run this (http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=150384) you will see that it has already been done for you there is also a Poll going around right now about the best PSU’s (http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=207712)
The absolute best you can buy is PC Power & Cooling (and you will pay big $ to get them too)
The best bang for the buck are the SPI’s and FSP’s

heh!

Well as i said i made my own thread. I listed 11 Powersupplys that are 550W that are all under 30 bucks,

I dont have that much money to blow so i need to make every cent count!!!

And my post is here, has 11 550W psu's for under $30 (including shipping):

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=208123