Ultra V-Series?

[Groundbound1]

I just ordered a 500 watt'r because the machine I'm building uses a P4 Prescott@ 3Ghz, and this ps has a 28A 12v rail. Should be enough, huh? Just wondering if anyone has had any experiences (good or bad) that they'd like to share about the Ultra brand.

[ozzy72]

Personally I'd have gone with a slightly more powerful PSU. But that is 'cos I tend to continuously upgrade.
The Ultra brand are pretty good, I've got one in my machine and it is going strong 8-)

[Groundbound1]

I thought about going a little bigger, but except for the motherboard, processor, and ram, I'll be using the same hardware I was using before. I just wanted to make sure I'd enough juice for the new board. (that, and the price was right

[GunnerMan]

You should be fine with 500 watter. I run my AMD rig(heavily overclocked) with 3 HDDs and my OCZ is fine on 530W.

[ctjoyce]

Want to know what you really need? http://www.extreme.outervision.com/powercalc.jsp The antec PSU calculator is the greatest tool for system building. I presonally add in 50W to whatever it gives me to leave room for an extra drive, or GPU upgrade etc, but so far its always been spot on to what I need.

Cheers
Cameron

[Groundbound1]

Want to know what you really need? http://www.extreme.outervision.com/powercalc.jsp The antec PSU calculator is the greatest tool for system building. I presonally add in 50W to whatever it gives me to leave room for an extra drive, or GPU upgrade etc, but so far its always been spot on to what I need.

Cheers
Cameron

Ha ha, I did...I used it as soon as I saw it in Wii's thread. It said I should be ok with 256 watts or better. OVERKILL...that's the ticket!