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I currently have an OKIA-450ATX, 450 Watt power supply in my system. I fear that it is possibly a mediocre to poor quality power supply. The power supply seems to be running fine and without any problems currently. I've been using it about six months now.

Here are the power supply specifications:
http://www.isitoday.com/cgi-bin/isi/PS-OKIA-450ATX.html

After reading many threads on here I am afraid the power supply could damage my system components if it were to fail. There is a replacement warranty on the power supply until June 2008. After June 2008 should I replace my current power supply with a better quality one?

I was looking at the Antec True Power Trio TP3-550 550 Watt Power Supply as a possible replacement.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371002

Would the Antec Power Supply work with my current system or even fit in my current computer case? My current power supply is 6 inches wide.

Motherboard Version: Foxconn 6100K8MA-RS (Winfast C51MCP51) FAB1.0 SOCKET 939
Video card: Onboard NVIDIA GeForce 6100 GPU + nForce 410 MCP chipset
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (2.41 Gigahertz)
Random Access Memory: 2 gigabytes PC-3200 Super Talent
Parallel ATA Hard Drives: 74.5 gigabyte Western Digital WD800, 7.9 gigabyte Fujitsu MPD3084AT
Optical Drive: Sony CD-ROM CDU5221
Power Supply: OKIA-450ATX, 450 Watt
 
Any supply could damage a board or other components if it were to suddenly send a large surge into the board. The most you are likely to see if ocing or adding larger loads would be the current supply wimp out a little if not seeing good regulation or simply not adequate where a heavier supply would be adivsed. Both supplies are standard atx models.
 
Supplies that have seen the large caps not any small ones soldered at the base of the transformer when seen short out have cooked boards. But simply being low powered will likely see the lights dimm when too large of a load is placed on it.

Since that hasn't been seen you should manage for quite some time. The need for a larger supply if that one is in prime shape is seen when adding drives/devices that then see larger loads on a supply plus see a need for more power connectors there. The larger supplies will have the additional connectors like the 700w supply used here sees 6 plugs for a board that can run 6 sata drives.
 
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