What would you recomend?

[i2fast4u]

I am going to be upgrading to 1.4 P3'd on my current system and I will probibly have 3-5 New HD's and 4 CD drives. I am also going to a Geforce4 Ti 4800 if that has any affect. The system is my file server and my rig in my house and I was just wondering, I will be OCing it. I currently have 5 case fans, 2 CPU fans, 1GPU fan. I may be putting a koolance on it also

 

[Tmod]

Fortron/Source FSP530-60GNA

You can get it at Newegg

 

[Deathknight]

While the 530w fortron is an outstanding psu, I don't think that much power is neccessary for a 1.4 p3. The 300w or 350w fortron would be more than enough power.

 

[Tmod]

Deathknight

Did you read how many hard drives and cdrom's he is going to install?

Not to mention the 8 fans.

 

[dustybyrd]

While the 530w fortron is an outstanding psu, I don't think that much power is neccessary for a 1.4 p3. The 300w or 350w fortron would be more than enough power.

in this case, i'll have to disagree...especially because this is for TWO 1.4ghz proc's and 8-10 drives...

i had one of these systems and i had a 350watt fortron on it with 2 hard drives in RAID and a backup drive...

i had reboots when i used all three hard drives at the same time...these reboots disappeared when i went to the 530 watt fortron...

i was overclocking and overvolting from 1.4ghz to 1.6ghz and from 1.45 to 1.6 volts...

these p3's at that speed and voltage probably consumed about 50 watts each...that's 100 watts just on the cpu's...

i do believe that the fortron 400watt psu would do the job...but a fortron 530 at just a little more money would be more than enough with leaving room for upgrade...

i noticed you currently have a 400 watt psu...what brand? if fortron...then i would try it an it would probably be fine...

 

[i2fast4u]

I dont recall the brand off hand, its not a forton, I know that. Thanks for the suggestion, I was figuring I would need 500 or so watts

 

[Deathknight]

Hrm I didn't notice that it was a dual machine, I thought it was 1 1.4ghz processor. For most users I don't think 4 CD-roms is any different than 2. How often are you going to be spinning up more than 2 at a time? Still that 2nd processor may warrant the extra juice.

 

[dustybyrd]

For most users I don't think 4 CD-roms is any different than 2. How often are you going to be spinning up more than 2 at a time? [/B]

i've always wondered this as well...

 

[Tmod]

If you are not able to use all four at the same time why even put four in.

Basically what I am saying is choose your PSU to fit the worst case scenario.