Is 380watts from the PSU enough?!

[IntaCepta]

Silly me, amoung the excitement I bidded for and won a seasonic s12-380 on ebay for £38, when they're now going for £40 on scan.co.uk!

The question is this, are you ready for it?
Will this PSU power my system to be?

Core2Duo e6300 / e4300 (Still undecided, but will be overclocking)
Scythe Ninja RevB CPU Cooler w/ 120mm YateLoon/Sharkoon fan
Geil Ultra Low latency 2GB PC6400 800MHz 4-4-4-12 DDR2 RAM
Gigabyte DS3 Motherboard
Samsung 320GB SATA Spinpoint Drive
2x 80mm YateLoon/Sharkoon intake fans
1x 80mm YateLoon/Sharkoon exhaust fan
SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS
DVD Writer IDE
Bay - Multi Card Reader
Bay - Sunbeam rheobus fan controller for 4 fans
Also include a graphics card, again undecided on which one.


The joke of it all is, my previous PSU was an enermax 430w!
But I don't think this PSU has the correct connectors for the motherboard etc. So i've downgraded in watts

I feel so silly!

[Clunk]

Depending on the choice of graphics card, that psu will be fine.

They are regularly on today only for about £30

[Jay]

you will need a low end graphics card and no neons etc to get away with it. What is the 12v rail Amps?

[IntaCepta]

+12V1 = 10A
+12V2 = 15A

I'm guessing thats 25amps split over 2 rails?
You think that will be sufficient?
I know it all depends on my graphics card, but i'm not really clued up on them yet.

[grayg1]

you are pushing it a bit depending on graphics card

put it this way... how much much are you thinking of spending on a graphics card?

[scrandman]

Should be fine if you stick with something low power like 7600 (or perhaps even 7900GS). You can probably forget about X1900 or 8800GT though...

[pands@scan]

for a rough idea...CLICK MEH

[grayg1]

You could probably get an x1800xt running on there, I know it sounds crazy but I have heard of people doing such a thing. But honestly just don't do it, you seriously don't want to max your PSU 24/7.

Edit: yeh taking a look at the PSU calculator thing I think the highest you should be aiming is a 7600gt or basically anything which doesn't require an external PCI-E 6pin power connector

[IAmATeaf]

Do you still not have the Enermax PSU then? What do you mean by it didn't have the right connectors?

I have a DS3P and my Enermax EG465 PSU runs it fine. You're right in that the PSU mobo connectors are 4 pins short but the 20 pin connector from the PSU fits into the 24 pin with the last 4 pins left unconnected. The 4 pin connector from the PSU again fits in the 8 pin with the last 4 pins unconnected. Hope I've made myself clear with the above excessive pin talkage but I've read that the above is perfectly acceptable.