Power Supply bigger than 431 watts for single cpu system?

Ok, so apparently I have a power shortage. my system reboots after about 10 min of using it. when I disconnected 2 hard drives, it stopped. so apparently it's a power problem.

I currently have a 431 watt Enermax power supply and I'm shocked that 431 watts isn't enough for my system.
although if you look at my sig, I have 4 hard drives and 2 cdroms, so those must eat a lot, not to mention all those fans on my case. . .

are there any power supplies above 431 watts for single cpu systems? the ones that I saw were for 2+ processor motherboards only.

I think you have more than enough power, you may just have a bad PSU. Maybe it is overheating. Check the fans to make sure they are running.

you can get up to 500+ I believe on a few psu's. Or you could use 2 psu's

But I highly doubt it has anything to do with not enough power

by the way, 4 hard drive for 250 gigs? Holy crap, what are you storing on your PC ;)

Are you overclocking anything?? They do make bigger PS's but its hard to believe that could be the problem.:confused:

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Originally posted by IntelSux
Ok, so apparently I have a power shortage. my system reboots after about 10 min of using it. when I disconnected 2 hard drives, it stopped. so apparently it's a power problem.

I currently have a 431 watt Enermax power supply and I'm shocked that 431 watts isn't enough for my system.
although if you look at my sig, I have 4 hard drives and 2 cdroms, so those must eat a lot, not to mention all those fans on my case. . .

are there any power supplies above 431 watts for single cpu systems? the ones that I saw were for 2+ processor motherboards only.

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Hmm. This doesn't really look like the power is too little. 431 Watts is a lot of power, even for a system like yours.

Might just be going bad. Try an Antec 400 Watter.