Power supply for Asus A7N8X & Barton 2500

[unknown9]

Alright, well, i'm pretty sure i have posted something like this before but some things have changed and xmas is coming up so this time it's serious. As for right now I have a 350w Allied PSU powering PC Chips M817 (w/ 1333mhz Althon). I want to upgrade to a asus A7N8X & barton 2500. Since I also have duel cathode's, 5 lighted fans, and some el wire, I think i'll also have to upgrade my power supply. When i went to look at newegg, i saw the allied 450w power supply. Looks good, well it said

Allied TRUE 450W Power Supply AL-B450EATX w/ Two Fans ***AMD APPROVED good to 2200+ *** UL, CSA, FCC Approved

Only up to 2200? Dam, will i have to settle with getting an Allied 500w? I really don't want to spend over 50 bucks. Omardeth, i know you really like that acheive power supply, but i'd like to settle with a big named company. I've already fried 2 power supply's with my current system.

Thanks all

[stroyal]

I'm sure that power supply would be fine all the way up to 3200+ unless you are running a lot of drives at the same time, like a large RAID array.
When that spec was writen that was probably the biggest CPU. My Barton 2500+ with 2 SATA HD RAID 3 optical drives and a Zip only has a 400 watt Allied with room for at least another drive

[pinipig523]

it just says 2200+ because at the time it was manufactured, the most power hungry cpu was the 2200+... im sure it can handle the 2500+ or even an oc' to 3200+. the one thing you have to concern yourself with is how much wattage its putting out... and how stable the voltage rails are.

[RamonGTP]

It'll be fine... I've got an 350 watt Enermax powering up a PC with:

Barton 2500+@3200+ (1.7 volts)
2x512MB Corsair XMS dimms (2.77 volts)
Radeon 9800 Pro
2 Cold Cathode lights
2 lighted system fans + 4 regular ones
DVDRW
DVD ROM
7200 RPM 8MB Cache Western Digital HDD
5 PCI Cards

[unknown9]

Look's like i'll be going with an allied 450w from newegg unless geek's get their allied 500w system in before xmas