need help building a retro PC

[kaitlin4599]

ok so im building a retro gaming pc. i got for free a socket 462 A7V8X-LA motherboard for free from a local tech friend of mine who had no use for it. below is a pic of the board, it will have an athlon 1700+ cpu in it at stock speeds no overclock here, 640 megs of ram 2 cd rom drives 2 floppy drives and 2 80gig HDD's. can anyone tell me if the power supply in this link will power my system without any issues i got this for free as well the 12 volt rail has me a lil concerned since its low amps

edit gpu is a low profile AGP FX5200 128 meg

 

[knoober]

I think the 5v and 3.3v rails were more important for older systems. FWIW http://www.pc-specs.com/cpu/AMD/Athlon_XP/Athlon_XP_1700+/163/Compatible PSUs lists a 350W antec (BP350) as being "compatible" and it has less on the 5v and 3.3v than yours does. The page I looked at didn't show specs for the 12v rail so I got nothing there.... GL

 

[mammut]

That SL350 should be just fine for that system. I see there is an older? SL350 with less amps on the +12V rail.

 

[kaitlin4599]

That SL350 should be just fine for that system. I see there is an older? SL350 with less amps on the +12V rail.

thanks for the tips i already own an i7 gaming pc this is simply to toy with and for retro games

 

[trents]

I think you will be okay. A 350W PSU was pretty typical for custom rigs in that generation and it is a quality brand. What OS will you be running? The hardware is late 1990's I think, right around Y2K.

 

[ihrsetrdr]

I had a A7V8X-LA, still have a xp1700 sitting in the parts drawer. I used an Antec 350W PSU for that era of motherboards.

 

[kaitlin4599]

That SL350 should be just fine for that system. I see there is an older? SL350 with less amps on the +12V rail.

thanks for the tips i already own an i7 gaming pc this is simply to toy with and for retro games

 

[Richo999]

Socket A and agp cards were 5V hungry, generally a high end athlon builds required between 25-30A at stock speeds. My Athlon build uses 34A on the 5V rail.
The main issue with retro rigs however are the caps and the fans. Check those out before anything else. The PSUs from antec were great quality but like most hardware from that time they used crappy capacitors.

 

[kaitlin4599]

Socket A and agp cards were 5V hungry, generally a high end athlon builds required between 25-30A at stock speeds. My Athlon build uses 34A on the 5V rail.
The main issue with retro rigs however are the caps and the fans. Check those out before anything else. The PSUs from antec were great quality but like most hardware from that time they used crappy capacitors.

my mobo has a 4pin cpu connector so no worries there but thanks for the info