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  1. July 13th, 2005, 06:16 PM #1
    reddyjs
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    question about installing 3rd hard drive

    Hey,

    I just got a computer with one hard drive and one cdrw drive installed. The computer has a 430 watt power supply and an ASUS P4P800 SE motherboard. Here's my setup:

    Ide connector 1:
    Master segate harddrive
    Slave open

    Ide connector 2:
    Master cd-rw
    slave open

    I plan on installing a second hard drive on the ide connector 1 slave an a third hard drive on the ide connector 2 slave. Is this possible and will it be an overload on the power supply? Thx.
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  2. July 13th, 2005, 06:46 PM #2
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    Reddyjs, welcome to the forum.

    Should be fine. May be questionable if you have a power hungry graphics card (Radeon 9800 or higher) needing its own molex. You may also need a molex splitter.
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  3. July 13th, 2005, 07:20 PM #3
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    I have 4 hard drives and 3 optical drives on a system with a 420 Watt PSU and it's nowhere near maxed out. You'll be fine so long as it's not a cheap and nasty power supply, which never put out as much as they claim to.
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