I'm running Athlon 64 3200 on Enermax 330 Watt PS
is that wattage enough?

1/17/2006 10:24:49 PM

Watt?

1/17/2006 10:29:00 PM

should be enough, is it s socekt 939 or 754 , if it's a 939 u might want to get a newere psu that supporrts dual 12v rails. my 350 sparkle does fine on my 3200a64

1/17/2006 11:39:42 PM

Are you talking about 4 pin 12V power connector?
mine's socket 939 and my power supply has the 4 pin connector

1/17/2006 11:49:53 PM

if it has dual 12v rails the main connector will have 24 pins , not the 20 +4 pin confiugration. the 939 board will have a 24 pin main connector and ur 20 pin psu shouldn't fit it(wo jaming it in) they do sell 20-> 24 pin converters but you're better off gettin a new psu that can support the 12v demnds on a 939.

1/18/2006 12:17:54 AM

my board is asrock 939dual. It has 20 pin and 4pin. Does all 939 board support dual 12v rails?

1/18/2006 2:01:54 AM

only if you hack your firmware and change the ampage

[Edited on January 18, 2006 at 2:19 AM. Reason : it depends on how much your voltage varies]

1/18/2006 2:19:20 AM

that's my bad all 939 boards dont' have the 24 pin connector and urs is 1 that doesn't. the 20 pin should connect up like normal. your psu sould be ok if you get stability problems then upgrade.

1/18/2006 2:38:10 AM

1.21 jiggawatts

1/18/2006 2:57:45 AM

i see what you did there.

1/18/2006 3:06:06 AM

2/12/2006 1:28:41 PM

Can you have too much wattage? My power supply just crapped out and I have this motherboard

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813123265

and a 1.66 gHz AMD Sempron.

2/12/2006 1:47:53 PM

no, but you can buy a powersupply that costs way more than anything you really need. that wouldn't fry your board or anything, it would just be silly.

2/12/2006 1:52:58 PM

^^As far as overdoing it goes, the PSU only supplies power as it is needed. So if you have a 700 Watt power supply and a simple setup, your PSU will have about 350W in reserve that you could never possibly utilize.

For instance, I Interned at Dell over the summer in Austin, and the Blade Servers I wrote tests for had up to a 2100W PSU, but that was made to support up to 10 blades. Now, if you only had one blade in the chassis, we're talking about more like 175 Watts of consumption, so it isn't like the PSU is FORCING all of its juice into that single blade. The PSU just coasts until more power is needed.

Oh, here's the server I was talking about (PowerEdge 1855)

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/PowerEdge%201855%20DC%20Whitepaper.pdf

2/12/2006 3:45:54 PM