upgrading to athlon64

I'm planning on upgrading to an athlon64 motherboard/proc/memory setup soon. Right now I'm running an Abit KR7A-RAID kt233a board, 1.4ghz thunderbird, and 512mb of crucial ram set at 2-5-2. What I'm planning on getting is an Asus A8V Deluxe board, an Athlon64 3200+ C0 Clawhammer DTR chip, and 1gb of OCZ EB PC-3700 ddr ram. My only concern is my current power supply. It's an Enermax EG465P-VE(FCA) psu, rated at 460watts (I think). Right now at idle, the rail voltages are reading +3.3 = 3.46V, +5 = 4.84V, +12 = 11.98V. Do those readings look good enough? I'm thinknig the +5 is a little low, so I'm not sure if it'll be adequate for an athlon64 system or not. What are your thoughts?

edit: just fyi, i'll be getting an slk-948u for cooling.
edit: i also forgot, it's kt266a, not kt233a.

If you can afford it get a socket 939 CPU upgrading in the future will be easier/cheaper.

Sorry I don't know much about PSUs (I'm only 13!!!), but 460W should be fine. When I build my Athlon 64 system I'm going for a Thermaltake 480W PurePower Silent PSU.

Hope that helps.

You'll be fine. I'm running my A64 system on True 430.

Vince1990uk said:

If you can afford it get a socket 939 CPU upgrading in the future will be easier/cheaper.

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I already looked at them, and IMO, they aren't really worth it for the price.

NiTrO bOiE said:

You'll be fine. I'm running my A64 system on True 430.

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Thanks, that's good to know. Now I should be able to get the dvd+/-rw drive I've been wanting instead of a new psu.

webfreak said:

I already looked at them, and IMO, they aren't really worth it for the price.

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I see your point, but if you can wait to see if they drop in price I would. You'll save money in the future.

Well, I'm still not all that sure about upgrading at this point in time. I think I'm going to wait for pci express chipsets and boards to mature before I make the switch to athlon64, so maybe sometime around December. I'm not really up to speed on the pci express timeline, but we'll see. By the way, welcome to the forums.

The Enermax will be just fine

Yeah, you should be fine with what you have... Anyone know how good the AMD Athlon 64 3000+ CPU is ? See good ratings on it on newegg.com

the rock! ,go read the article over at the [H] http://hardocp.com/article.html?art=NjI5

also i am wondering will my antec truepower run a A64? or should i get a new one, I will be using the same stuff in my sig except new ram, mobo, and proc, the A64 3000+ mobile

webfreak said:

Well, I'm still not all that sure about upgrading at this point in time. I think I'm going to wait for pci express chipsets and boards to mature before I make the switch to athlon64, so maybe sometime around December. I'm not really up to speed on the pci express timeline, but we'll see. By the way, welcome to the forums.

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Thanks Seems like a good idea to wait.