I'm thinking about building a 64 bit system and I'm trying to find a good power supply for it. What have you guys had good luck with? I've heard that Antec is good. What else do you recommend? I'm thinking I'll need at least 300 watts, but would like 400+ watts to be on the safe side.

The specs of the system:
3200+ Athlon 64
Asus K8V mb (as of right now)
512 Gb pc3200 ram(crucial, corsair, viking)
160 GB WD 7200 HD
Other specs yet to be determined

 

i have a generic 550 watt power-eater, loud as a mofo but has nto failed on my since, only 25buks also...

 

a high power antec

i had a generic 350 and it couldnt go past 3-4 days uptime now i can do 6....thats my highest so far i'm trying to go all thru this week and i'm at 5 days so far
this is a overclocked cpu and vid card machine

 

A 500 watt power supply?

What're you running? Four hard drives, a bunch of PCI cards and a 9800XT?

Jeebus.

 

are u referring to me?
im just running a stock machine, not OC'd, just need the extra juice to run the cold cathode and fans...
i have an extra 300 watt and 350watt sitting around.

 

LOL...

Lunatics.

 

I'm not a lunatic, just thorough.

 

antec true power 420.

 

I'm running 12hdds with a 450W ps in a dual Xeon system

 

I will be picking up a 450 soon...too many drives to run off of the 350 I am currently using so I have to swap them out all the time on a slide tray system...gets old after a while and I am sure somethings going to give soon if I keep it up.