
Originally Posted by
SuperSparks
I don't see that you really need an 800Watt power supply. A decent quality 500 Watt should do you, and will often put out more power than a cheap "700 Watt" (which never put out anything like what is claimed). Good brands are honest about the power output.
I've got a nice Corsair in my main rig which has pretty blue LEDs on the fan. Other excellent brands are Tagan, OCZ, Thermaltake, Enermax, Hiper, Xion, PC Power & Cooling.
I actually had a thermaltake 750w Bronze edition that was unable to power my processor, motherboard, one harddrive, and video card alone...would shut off after 10 seconds of running at half fan speed on the processor. I loved the power supply it just had the wrong power rating. Went with an off-brand 900w
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Windows XP
ASRock AGP/PCIE Motherboard.
Intel E4400 Processor, 2 GHz, Core2 Duo
Geforce 7800 GS CO 256mb AGP
Corsair 2gb DDR2 PC5400? 2 sticks
ULTRA X2 750W Modular Power Supply
[C] 127 GB Drive, currently 22GB free. Main Windows
[E] 127 GB Drive, currently 9GB Free. Backup Windows
[F] 250 GB SATA Drive. Storage
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