Seasonic SS-350ET 350W enough for AMD 64 3700+ build?

[Archman]

Hello,

I recently purchased a MSI RS482M4 motherboard that supports Socket 939 for AMD® Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core / Athlon™ 64 FX / Athlon™ 64 processors, and has onboard video utilizing the ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 (RS482) Chipset.

The motherboard includes an Athlon 64 3700+ processor, 2 GB of RAM (one DDR 400 stick), an 80GB and 60GB EIDE hard drive, and a DVD+/-DL burner. I am wondering about the current PSU I have and if that should be enough juice for the system.

I have a fairly newish Seasonic SS-350ET 350W, and was wondering if that should be enough juice for what I have in there? I am using a Antec 300 mini gaming case with the two 120mm case fans as well.

I do not plan to overclock or add anything else to the system. Should that be enough power for this new system to run without issues?

Thank you

 

[Soulkeeper]

I run the SS-300ET PSU in a A8-3850 system
i've also run it in a c2d system

It should work assuming you aren't overclocking a lot or running a big video card
just note that it uses two 12v rails at 17amps each (on mine atleast).

They are pretty good cheap PSU's, the fan can make some high pitch noises however (I replaced mine). They are very efficient too

 

[gevorg]

SS-350ET should be plenty for your system, even if you add a low profile GPU

 

[cubby1223]

I have a 350W psu running a 3 core athlon @ 3ghz & radeon hd4670.

The power supply you have is MORE than enough for the setup you lay out. With what you listed, you can do with a good 200W psu no problems.

 

[IGemini]

Yes, it's plenty. My full HTPC specs for comparison:

Rosewill R102-P case
Antec Neo ECO 400C PSU
Athlon X2 3800+ (w/80mm Masscool fan)
ECS RS480-M
PNY GeForce 220 1GB
1TB Hitachi 7K1000 7200RPM drive
1 GB A-DATA DDR-400 RAM (1 stick)
16X Sony DVD-ROM
2 R4 CoolerMaster 120mm fans
BTC 9116 keyboard/mouse combo
Rosewill MiniN1 11n USB adapter

Power draw at the wall: 58W

 

[pauldun170]

I junked a similar system last year (same chipset, generic HP system) with a 3800+.
Two reasons why I sent it off to the junk bin. One was that it would only work with PCIe 1.0a spec vid cards. Any PCIe 1.1 or later GPU would result in the proc utilization jumping to 100% and staying there.
Second was that the 3800+ took a dump (I probably damaged it during a CPU cooler swap) and running the 3200+ I had lying around with antiquated onboard video just didn't serve any purpose.
I ran it with a 250 and a 300 watt PSU and it worked as well as a platform that old can run.

The issue I had was specific to the HP model I was using.

 

[Archman]

Thank you for the input everyone

I am updating an older system for a family member that currently has an old Socket A/462 motherboard (ABIT KT7) where the capacitors are giving me concern, and the recent upgrades still have it chugging along sluggishly that include a recently put in a XP 2200+ (for some reason it chooses to run at 2.0GHz instead of 1.8GHz), 1.25GB of ram, and the system uses an older Radeon 7200 video card...

Anyways, this will be a nice upgrade for them and a good way to recycle old parts (the MSI board).

Cheers again, and have a wonderful day

 

[SonicIce]

my system is similar but uses more power and on a lesser psu so you should be fine