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Original Message
Name: skyfear
Date: May 9, 2006 at 20:15:49 Pacific
Subject: PSU upgrade help
OS: Win XP pro
CPU/Ram: 1024 OCZ Premier
Model/Manufacturer: Me
Comment:

Hey,
I've finally scraped enough money to upgrade my cheap $20 510W PSU for a 480W Antec Truepower 2.0 TPII-480 after hearing some scary stuff as a result of cheap PSUs. I'm wondering about the dual +12V rails though. I hear that one rail powers the CPU and the other powers the peripherals. So that should support the power needs of an AMD 3500+ system w/ 2 optical drives, 1 HDD right?

Any opinions and useful advice would be helpful.


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Response Number 1
Name: Cobra_R
Date: May 10, 2006 at 01:55:11 Pacific
Subject: PSU upgrade help
Reply: (edit)

yes it will.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7800GT
SATA II 2x 200gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI



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Response Number 2
Name: skyfear
Date: May 10, 2006 at 06:48:42 Pacific
Subject: PSU upgrade help
Reply: (edit)

Will it be enough to support a single 7900 GT? I've heard their power requirements are large but not phenomenal.


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Response Number 3
Name: jam
Date: May 10, 2006 at 12:39:01 Pacific
Subject: PSU upgrade help
Reply: (edit)

Just saw this mentioned at another site:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817171008


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