On Jan 2, 2008 4:43 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I would say its plenty big enough. I ran for many years a amd 2600+ box with > 2xhdd's 3 optical drives, neon on the case a couple of fans, 1gb ram and a > couple of pci cards and i used a 350watt power supply for it > > I had another athlon64 3000+ system with 6 sata drives and 3 pci cards 1gb ram > and two fans that used a 350watt power supply also > Either you were lucky or I was not - I burned out a 430w power supply with my rig: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+ (2 x 2.0GHz) M/B: ECS NFORCE4M-A K/M: Logitech EX110 Cordless Desktop (keyboard & mouse) ram: 2GB OCZ DDR2 800MHz (PC6400) fdd: Panasonic 3 1/4" 1.44Mb hds: 160MB Maxtor PATA UDMA-133 & 120MB Maxtor PATA UDMA-133 sds: 300GB Seagate SATA-150/300 320GB WD SATA-150/300 dvd: Emprex 16x DVD+/-RW/Dual-Layer Hammer 16x DVD+/-RW/Dual-Layer/DVD-RAM vid: geFORCE7100gs (nVidia) PCI-E x16 mod: Agere Systems 56k WinModem (Lucent) cap: AverMedia Video Capture It's a little different now (both DVD drives had to be replaced, for different reasons), and I've been using a 500w PS for about six months, no trouble. mhr _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos