Advice about my wattage

[lhuser]

Okay, so if I heard well, my mother wants to buy me my new PC. I honestly don't mind, because I'm going to be 70 years old at that ratewhen I'll have it!!!

Oh well, here's the specs:

Pentium D 940
Abit IB9
1GB RAM DDRII-667 or I might go to DDRII-800
160GB WD SATA 300
ATI Radeon X1300
Case is not yet determined.
Nu-DDW082 DVD Burner
Good ol' FDD

400W Antec PSU with 24-pin layout and 6-pin PCI-E

That;s my PSU that I replaced caps. Runs perfect.

I've just fixed a 420W, but I feel a little concerned. I'll use my K6-2 for a run.

Now, do you think 400W's enough? Or, should I attempt to give my 420W a slap?

 

[spywarebanisher]

400 is fine if u are a bit twitchy with the 420. 420 would be btr tho. i dont see major diff. and shouldn't u get a slightly more expensive c2d?

 

[lhuser]

Personally, I won't get Core 2 Duo. I'll jump to Quad core later.

Looking at a calaculator, it mentions I need 276W. If I follow them, a 300W would even be good!

 

[Rudster8161]

http://www.extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine
at 100% load this calculates that PC at 288 Watts asuming your using 2 sticks of ram and no overclock

 

[lhuser]

You should know that Dual core counts as one CPU.

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

well lhuser, my pc (you know what it is) ran fine on a stupid old 300 watt. so that shhould run fine on a 400

 

[hascet]

Personally, I won't get Core 2 Duo. I'll jump to Quad core later.

After the proposed price drop on july 2 intels q6600 quad core processor is supposed to be $266

 

[mammikoura]

yeah 400W is going to be more than enough.
I'm running p4 3.0ghz, 2gb ddr, 6800GT on a 420W and it's fine. And I'm guessing the 6800GT needs a lot of power compared to the x1300.

 

[lhuser]

That's what I thought. Thanks.
As for my 420W, I have tested the voltages, and they're good. It powered my PII no problems.
My 400W that I attempted to fix sparked in front of me. I kinda knew that 400W was enough, but since I was using stuff that was more decent, I thought it would be better to ask.