Currently, I have a "Super Flower 520W SF-520TS/TT-520SS" PSU in my machine. As you can see from my list of components, I have an AMD Athlon 64 3400+ processor. I also ordered a "Seagate Barracuda 7800.8 250GB 3.5 Serial ATA150 Hard Drive" and it should arrive sometime next week.
My question is whether my PSU is sufficient enough to handle everything.
http://www.directron.com/4fan520wal.html
The reason I am asking is becasue my computer has been restarting automatically from time to time. This samething happened with a previous computer and so I bought new components to build a new one. The new computer still had the same problem. I can't pinpoint which hardware is causing the problem though I have replaced the mobo, video card, processor, and heatsink. On top of that I bought two 80mm fans. These are all the components that you see below. The only re-used parts from my computer is the RAM and hard drive. I tried running Prime95, but I keep getting that hardware failure message. Also, when I restart, I get a message window stating that my windows has recovered from a serious error. After submitting, it tells me that I have a device driver problem though it doesnt tell me for which component. If the new hard drive does not solve the problem, then I will have to buy new RAM. If that doesn't work...who knows.
Here is a list of my components:
Windows XP Profesional sp2
AMD Athlon 64 3400+
SOLTEK SL-K8AN2E-GR Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb ATX AMD
ARCTIC COOLING 90mm Cooling Fan/Heatsink
VGA|PNY 6600GT 128M R
FAN COOLINGFAN MASSCOOL (I have 2 of these)
Maxtor 120 Gig Hard Drive
Mad Dog Dvd Player Driver
Mad Dog CD Burner Drive
Crucial 512 pc27600 ram
Kingston 256 pc3200 ram
My question is whether my PSU is sufficient enough to handle everything.
http://www.directron.com/4fan520wal.html
The reason I am asking is becasue my computer has been restarting automatically from time to time. This samething happened with a previous computer and so I bought new components to build a new one. The new computer still had the same problem. I can't pinpoint which hardware is causing the problem though I have replaced the mobo, video card, processor, and heatsink. On top of that I bought two 80mm fans. These are all the components that you see below. The only re-used parts from my computer is the RAM and hard drive. I tried running Prime95, but I keep getting that hardware failure message. Also, when I restart, I get a message window stating that my windows has recovered from a serious error. After submitting, it tells me that I have a device driver problem though it doesnt tell me for which component. If the new hard drive does not solve the problem, then I will have to buy new RAM. If that doesn't work...who knows.
Here is a list of my components:
Windows XP Profesional sp2
AMD Athlon 64 3400+
SOLTEK SL-K8AN2E-GR Socket 754 NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb ATX AMD
ARCTIC COOLING 90mm Cooling Fan/Heatsink
VGA|PNY 6600GT 128M R
FAN COOLINGFAN MASSCOOL (I have 2 of these)
Maxtor 120 Gig Hard Drive
Mad Dog Dvd Player Driver
Mad Dog CD Burner Drive
Crucial 512 pc27600 ram
Kingston 256 pc3200 ram