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ASUS s939 k8m890 pcie
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB SATA II
Corsair Value Select 512MB DDR400

? Corsair HX520W ?


I'm going for a cheap machine that can actually do something, and that's what I've come up with. (Memory is low, but whatever). There'll only be the usual mouse, keyboard and, at times, two USB-things on top of the specs, maybe a graphics card and added memory later.

I'm interested, since I'm PSU illiterate, if the Corsair PSU will work with these specs.. I believe the wattage is fine, but the rails and amps are way beyond my understanding.. If someone has a clue, they might have a look see and tell me if that is indeed a proper PSU? I've included a few links where the specs are laid out:

http://www.jonnyguru.com/review_details.php?id=28
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article692-page1.html

Thanking in advance.


/edit, also I've had a look at Antec Sonata II case and PSU, it looks pretty good but I also wonder if the PSU will function with the above specs? I really am useless regarding this

Frankly it doesn't matter all that much, anything 250W or above should be fine for your purposes (if I remember correctly). Don't let people try and bully you into thinking otherwise, they're full of shit. I ended up with a server grade PSU in my workstation because we thought that the standard ones weren't supplying enough power to fuel my PC...turns out the motherboard was busted, I don't see myself making that mistake again.

what you have looks fine, my only suggestion is opt for a 300W PSU or higher. I tend to opt for 500, but that's because i'm a power whore . depending on your needs, between 300 and 500 will work fine. the only thing is, watch out for the type of connector it uses to connect to the motherboard. 24 pin, 20+4 pin, and there are some others. Actually, don't flame me, but i'm not sure if 24 is the same as 20+4... *shifty eyes*. all i know is, make sure the connetors match.

I'm pretty sure 20+4 is a 20 pin adapter, the +4 informs you that it will work fine in a 24 pin slot leaving the last 4 holes empty (that's what my original 300W PSU was and we didn't think it was providing enough power >_<)

Well Sampa ,

since your problem is of an electrical nature I'd recommend to check out a very good electronics forum that I know of.
http://www.dutchforce.com
The folks there are true Electrical & Electronical Geeks!
plus , they would answer you any question (almost every question , lol) regarding anything technical and it's a good place to hang out as well

Netmaster

I've been going through hell wondering the same things, I was looking at an AMD 64 sm2 motherboard combo with 512MB of ram for $115, now I'm wondering how big of a PSU I really need everything is onboard and I will be running an Nvidia GF FX5500 PCI with 128MB ram, another sound card, one IDE hard drive (maybe two briefly at times for cloning), A CD ROM and a CD R/W and a floppy which will be used rarely.

Anyone know for a fact what the minimal PSU wattage is that I can get away with?

Thanks

No problem for me anymore, I'm just dishing out for one of these: http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardw ... -emba_psu/

I landed up getting one of these:

http://www.eaglebit.com/Super_Talent_iM ... -00291.htm

Not a bad deal.

PSU says it's 500W though, I have a similar setup running on a 300W Antec though and it's working fine, both use an AMD Athlon64 3800+ AM2/512MB PC25300 DDR2, both have the exact same drive setup, though the one on the 500W has no floppy and a PCI Nvidia card, while the other has a floppy and uses an AGP Nvidia card. I just ordered two SATA-II drives, though the system only uses SATA-I and am hoping to upgrade the PCI video to AGP now that I have an AGP slot again. I don't foresee any problems, in fact I noticed the other day that CompUSA has a 250W that says it supports such CPUs.

yeah. that's just fine indeed, glad that worked out.
just for reference, IME, a sign that you need a psu with MORE POWUH is when hdd's being to spinup and then the system dies. as they spin up / system starts up, they max the psu out.
your system may even cycle depending on your mo.bo. you may hit the power button, and you hear the hdd's spin up for a second or something and then click, spin down. then a sec later,
spin up, click, spin down. etc.