How much power supply does a typical PC build need?

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Published on 2010-04-01T03:04:15Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 3:43 UTC
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I am building a system for a friend. The potential specs are like this so far:

ASUS A8N-VM motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.0 GHz
Any 7200RPM SATA HDD
Palit GeForce 8800GT 512MB GDDR3 PCIe
One DVD/CD combo drive
Creative SB Live! 5.1 sound card

I was wondering what wattage of power supply would be able to support this hardware. I had a 350W in mind... would that do?

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