Power supply recommendations

[Evoluter]

I was wondering what type of power supply I am going to need to run an athlon xp1800, visiontek 500(or maybe 1000 or 700 when I get my hook up), dvd, burner, harddrive, and about 4 fans? Am I going to need a 400 or will a 350 do just fine?

Could anyone give me any recommendations on power supplies for about $50 or less?

 

[VBboy]

350 should be fine, and even 300 would probably do.. But 350 is better =)

 

[PH0ENIX]

I myself run 4x 7200RPM seagate barracudas, a creative (2x ) burner, a lite-on 40x cdrom, a massively overclocked celeron with a 4000rpm hi-flow fan,
an IDE seagate, and an IBM travelstar laptop HDD, and god only knows how many fans (1 for each HDD and a couple more on the case, 486 fan on the i960 chip on the raid controller)

All off a 300w ATX power supply, every rail within .1v of what it should be.

As long as you dont buy cheap-ass power supplies, you're pretty much right.

(btw: I used to have a similar setup on a 230w AT system... I kept blowing power supplies until I bought a nice new Velta 230. Worked fine from then on)

Enermax and Velta are good, but if you want to be sneaky, find a proprietry system with a standard power supply (Like a Compaq Deskpro EP).
They usually use fairly high-qual stuff.