Will a 350W PSU power this?

[Dazzeerr]

I'm leaning towards it probably won't, but it's worth a shot.

Core 2 Duo E4400, Geforce 8500GT 256mb, Gigabyte EP43-DS3L and 2GB Corsair 667MHz.

As i said it's a 350W PSU, made by octigen. Haha, 17A on the 12V+ rail.

Reason i'm asking this is my dad asked me to build him a computer out of my old parts so I am, but he doesn't want to wait for me to RMA the dead OCZ 500W StealthXStream

 

[bomberboysk]

no


Its stupid to run a computer on a cheap chinese power supply anyhow. Unless of course you like toasting your motherboards, gpu's, and cpu's that is. Never heard of octigen, but it sounds along the lines of most other cheap units(logisys, Codegen, Rosewill, etc)

 

[cheburns]

http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

Just for reference... but the name (and therefore quality) of you psu is as important as the wattage (as bomber implies)

 

[ganzey]

dude, just rma the ocz. its either that or risk frying ur mobo, cpu, and graphics card.

 

[mx344]

If you got rid of the gfx card, you could run it. I wouldnt trust that thing though hehe.

 

[linkin]

I wouldn't trust that PSU with a lightbulb

 

[bomberboysk]

I wouldn't trust that PSU with a lightbulb

Coming from the member with an A-Power...

 

[Ramodkk]

but it sounds along the lines of most other cheap units(logisys, Codegen, Rosewill, etc)

Rosewill stands a notch above those two

 

[Timmeh]

dont worry about toasting all your hardware that thing aint even going to get your setup to boot. let alone fry

 

[ganzey]

dont worry about toasting all your hardware that thing aint even going to get your setup to boot. let alone fry

but if it tries and fail, it could surge and still fry everythin

 

[G25r8cer]

^^ To my knowledge psu's cant have a surge. The voltage is regulated internally. They can drop voltage and thats what causes damage.

 

[linkin]

Well they can also over-amp and then they shut down to prevent damage i believe. PSU's are fairly safe with surges i think.

And bobmer, I'm getting a Shaw 860W PSU

 

[linkin]

Well they can also over-amp and then they shut down to prevent damage i believe. PSU's are fairly safe with surges i think.

And bobmer, I'm getting a Shaw 860W PSU

Still an off-brand, but more amps, watts and connectors.

 

[Aastii]

Well they can also over-amp and then they shut down to prevent damage i believe. PSU's are fairly safe with surges i think.

And bobmer, I'm getting a Shaw 860W PSU

Still an off-brand, but more amps, watts and connectors.

it is about as powerful as a 450W Coolermaster, Corsair, PC Power&Cooling etc PSU though

 

[Twist86]

it is about as powerful as a 450W Coolermaster, Corsair, PC Power&Cooling etc PSU though

Yes but its 860w

You just know someone is laughing every time one of those gets sold.


I think the 400w Corsair is 30a and the 450w is 33a (I should know I used them)
Still I wouldn't buy anything but quality on a PSU if that goes it could take every part of your PC with it.