[Pc_Support] Staying with 32-bit: PC3200 or PC4000, 166 or 200MHz Athlon?

[Austin Denyer (Ozz)]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:20:12 -0400 (EDT), "Jason Boxman"
<jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
> 
> And, my old PSU is probably insufficient, so that's another $150 for a
> quality PSU.  Now I'm spending about $450 instead of $180.  Oops.

You shouldn't have to spend anything like that on a PSU.  

Earlier this year I got a 535W PSU (Enermax EG565P-FMA REV.2.0 ATX 2.0
w/SLI Support) from Monarch for $99, and that sucker was major
overkill. The main reason I got it was because I'm running a lot of
additional stuff (lotsa drives, etc.).

Remember too that the AMD64 often draws less power than the older
Athlons.  My AMD64 3000+ draws about 25% of the power my 1.3GHz Athlon
used to pull.

Regards,
Ozz.