Can a 200 power supply power a Duron 900mhz?

[madmanbmw]

I am wanting to use a few year old 200 watt p/s with a new biostar mobo and a duron 900 mhz. The computer with have one video card, one sound card, one 24x cd drive and one zip drive hooked to it. Will it run it safely?

Thanks

Madison
mmcmajor@apex.net

 

[Mordy]

It might work. But don't be surprised if your computer would crash when you use the cd or play quake.


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[girish]

it might work. but if you have a high end video card like RavTNT2 or GeForce, you better upgrade the supply since these cards draw a lot of current when working with games like Quake.

get at least 300 W of SMPS.

girish

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[toonces]

in a word....no.

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[Guest]

No. Unless you don't mind your PC rebooting or locking up every couple of minutes or dying whenever you access the CDROM. Trust me, it is not pretty. Get a 300w supply and save yourself many hours of Windows yelling at you for improperly shutting down.

BammBamm

 

[dhlucke]

If you choose to use a 200W powersupply, you will hate yourself.

High-wattage AGP card 20 - 30W
Average PCI card 5W
Cached SCSI controller PCI card 20-25W
Floppy drive 5W
10/100 NIC 4W
50x Atapi CD-ROM 10 - 25W
10x Atapi DVD-ROM 10 - 25W
8x / 4x / 32x SCSI CD-R/RW 17W
SCSI CD-ROM 12W
RAM 10W per 128MB
Ultra2 SCSI PCI card 5W
5200rpm IDE hard drive 5 - 11W
7200rpm IDE hard drive 5 - 15W
7200rpm Ultra2 SCSI hard drive 24W
10,000rpm SCSI drive 10 - 40W
Motherboard (without CPU or RAM) 20 - 30W
550MHz Pentium III 30W
733MHz Pentium III 23.5W
300MHz Celeron "A" 18W
600MHz Athlon 45W

So you would really be pushing it...you don't want to max out your powersupply, and yours is old, so I would buy a new one. You'll crash every 15 min probably otherwise.

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[CALV]

Nice fiugures, can I ask where you got them and how accurate they are? I've often wondered about power consumption of various components but without splitting cables and measuring current drawn with my fluke I have no way of telling (I suppose I could go to the manuf tech sheet for each card etc but that would take AGES lol)


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[Guest]

Really! So if I have 3 sticks of 256MB pc133 memory, it'll use 60 watts? Wow.

I've got a GeForce 2 dual monitor, 768 megs of ram and an A7A with a 1.33GHZ t bird, and 2 7200 rpm hard disks. All on a 250 watt p/s. Works fine, but man.. it must be near the limit

 

[Guest]

Simply no, don't even try it. And hey, what does it cost?