How much can a 430 watt power supply take?

Hello,
I am hoping someone can help me out.  See below for my rig.  Do I have too many components for my Antec 430 watt True power?  I haven't been able to find any accurate power ratings for these components.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
CD151

I agree you should be fine, and that the site overestimates a bit (it says my setup should have at least 386 watts, and I've been fine on my 380W PSU for over a year now of near 24/7 operation...even though I believe that the PSU's max possible output across all rails is only 330W total).  The bottom line is that any modern PSU from a decent manufacturer (and Antec is a pretty good choice for PSU's) will do just fine.
Note that the PSU calculator site uses the *max* possible power consumption for all the components (i.e. the Athlon64 CPU *does not* draw 89W of power all the time, or even all the time when it is at 100% utilization), and the same applies for the other components as well.  A little while ago I purchased a power monitor thingy that plugs into the wall socket and has a readout that displays the current power draw, as I was fed up with people always thinking that my PSU was woefully inadequate for my setup.  At idle, my system, with all its drives and PCI cards and overclocks, pulls a grand total of 150W of power.  At 100% CPU utilization (Prime95 torture test), it pulls a little under 190W.  At full CPU and GPU utilization (playing HL2, and the rthdribl demo), the total power drain is always under 225W.  Now let's bear in mind that this is power drain from the outlet, *not* power applied to the board.  Because the PSU is, at best, 85% efficient, 15% of this energy (at least) is lost as heat in the PSU, meaning that only about 192W is actually going out to the board at full CPU/GPU load, and since the PSU is capable of sending up to 330W out to the board (assuming it performs up to spec, which it should given Antec's reputation), I have quite a bit of headroom even on my "small" 380W PSU, even though I'm running more hardware than most users.
So anyways, the moral of the story is just get a quality PSU from a manufacturer that is reputable for making good PSU's, and you shouldn't have to worry about a thing.

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