Adding drives, proc upgrade: Power Supply? Heat?

Hello All,
Thinking of installing a total of 4 Internal Hard Drives, and a dual 1.6ish processor. Wondering if there are any Power Supply and/or heat issues I need to consider.
Current set-up:
PM G4 QS 867
1.5GB RAM
Power Supply is original: AcBel APlPC12..."Total 344W MAX."
Video Card is original AGP GeForce2 MX 32MB VRAM
Apple 17" Studio Display
Thinking of adding:
2 Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 200GB drives in the U-Carrier
2 Hitachi Deskstar SATA 500GB drives, 1 in each of the remaining bottom bays
All controlled via a Projovian "2-Port SATA and ATA133 Dual Connection PCI Host Adapter Card"
and further down the line a dual processor in the 1.6 to 2.0 GHz range.
Intended use is primarily FCP and some Photoshop.
Any thoughts or warnings?
Thanks so much,
Patterson
Power Mac G4 Quicksilver 867 Mac OS 9.2.x 17" Studio Display, 1.5GB RAM

That should be fine, in regards to power. As for heat, well it could get a little warm in there once you upgrade the CPU. You might want to get a PCI slot exhaust fan once you put the new CPU in there.

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