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Maddhatter

Maddhatter

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I currently have a 400W rosewill power supply with 27A on the 12V rails. Will this be enough to power my system.

Im upgrading to this

C2D E6600 (stock)
2 GB Corsair XMS dual channel pc6400 ram
radeon x1800xt 256 mb pci express (already have this)
Gigabyte DS3 mobo
plus a 160 GB sata hd and a 60 GB IDE drive for storage and 1 cd/dvd drive.



as of right now its powering my system just fine which is

AMD 64 3500+ (stock)
1.7 Gb ddr 400 ram
radeon x1800xt 256 mb pci express
asus A8s-x mobo
160 GB sata hd and a 60 GB IDE drive for storage and 1 cd/dvd drive.

im just wondering if its absolutely necessary to upgrade the PSU at this point in order to run that stuff at stock settings.
 
For a simple swap of board, cpu, and memory for strictly stock use no! But..... you will want to get a heftier and "better" make somewhere down the road. As far as Rosewill pay attention to the "good" and "bad" lists on various makes and lines of supplies here.


Good:
Antec(except Smart Power models) - Astec - AOpen - Channel Well - Coolermaster - Enermax(except Liberty models)
- Enlight - Fortron Source (Sparkle) - HEC - OCZ Technology - PC Power & Cooling - PowerMan
- Seasonic - SilverStone - Sunbeam - Tagan(older models) - TTGI/SuperFlower - Vantec - Zippy / Emacs - Verax - XCLIO - Zalman
- Corsair

Bad:
Allied - Antec Smart Power models seem to lack(recommend True Power or NeoHE) - Aspire - CoolMax - DEER - Enermax Liberty models - ePower - EYE-T
- KingStar - L&C - Linkworld - Logisys - PowerMagic - PowerUp - Powmax - Q-Tec - Raidmax - Skyhawk - Star
- Turbolink - Ultra - ThermalTake(complaints heard some good some ???) - Rosewill - SilenX ??? ToPower(newer models) - Youngyear

Getting something like a good 450-500w model is the actual preferred size while some think 600-700 is needed? When adding a second sata here along with the two ide hard drives and two optical with plans for two more satas? the swap from a 480w to a 550w Antec model was seen then.
 
As long as it's working now, you should be alright... I don't think the new processor and all would take that much more power than your current setup.
 
If you're planning on OCing then yes you will need a new psu, cuz the one you have is pretty "low" for a oced system
 
well i was planning on overclocking if i got the 6420 but if i get the 6600 i won't feel a need to overclock anytime soon i didn't really care for the idea anyway im not much of an overclocker. Thanks alot guys for the help
 
Don't feel bad on not wanting to oc everything! I count more reliability and stability by usually going with a faster stock model cpu. But eventually you will still want a model that can handle later expansion if you decide to add more drives/devices even running stock. A good 450w to 500w model is generally all anyone needs to begin with.
 
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