Power Supply

[Glacian]

So, after having several strange problems with my fathers computer we've come to the conclusion that its generic 480W psu. Well, before droppng the cash on a new Antec or similar quality power supply, I was wondering if you could give some advice on how big of one he needs.

He's running an AMD 2500+ on an AN35N ultra, 2 DVD roms, a total of 6 Hard drives, a Geforce 4 MX 440, and a pci IDE control card.

My thought was that a good 480W would be able to run all this, but I really dont know.

Thanks

 

[ryan954]

http://www.pcpowerandcooling.com/products/power_supplies/selector/index.htm

 

[Glacian]

Thanks!

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: Glacian
So, after having several strange problems with my fathers computer we've come to the conclusion that its generic 480W psu. Well, before droppng the cash on a new Antec or similar quality power supply, I was wondering if you could give some advice on how big of one he needs.

He's running an AMD 2500+ on an AN35N ultra, 2 DVD roms, a total of 6 Hard drives, a Geforce 4 MX 440, and a pci IDE control card.

My thought was that a good 480W would be able to run all this, but I really dont know.

Thanks

What problems have you had?

 

[Glacian]

In general, weird stuff. Random restarts being the biggest thing, but also some problems with the drives working from time to time

 

[UsandThem]

Power supplies are about quality. A good 350w will almost always be better than a generic 480w. If you have a good quality 480w in there, it could be the OS being corrupted, the ram gernerating errors, or even a flaky motherboard.