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Hi all,
I'm just wondering if there's a way to work out a suitable power supply
wattage for a system. My 400w supply blew up over the weekend so I'm up for
a new one but wondering if I should get something bigger.
I'm running a Gigabyte GA-7VA mobo with an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ at the moment
although I'll probably upgrade the chip to a 3000+ towards the end of the
year. I've got a 52x24x52 CD-R/W drive, a 52x CD-ROM, floppy, a 20gig HDD
(will be upgrading to around the 120gig mark soon). What else uses power?
I've got 6 powered USB ports, 3 of which have permanant peripherals in them
(printer/scanner with it's own power, modem & mouse), but I often use up to
5 at once (with the camera and flash drive). The only cards I've got at the
moment are a 4x AGP card (64meg GeForce2) and a LAN card. Oh and one 8cm
case fan. I don't run the monitor through the power supply, it get's it's
own socket.
I've got an old 250w supply in there (with the 2 CD drives disconnected)
until I get the new one. So will 400w be enough to fulfill my upgrades (XP
3000+ cpu and 120gig HDD) or should I go 450 or 500?
thanks
matt
Hi all,
I'm just wondering if there's a way to work out a suitable power supply
wattage for a system. My 400w supply blew up over the weekend so I'm up for
a new one but wondering if I should get something bigger.
I'm running a Gigabyte GA-7VA mobo with an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ at the moment
although I'll probably upgrade the chip to a 3000+ towards the end of the
year. I've got a 52x24x52 CD-R/W drive, a 52x CD-ROM, floppy, a 20gig HDD
(will be upgrading to around the 120gig mark soon). What else uses power?
I've got 6 powered USB ports, 3 of which have permanant peripherals in them
(printer/scanner with it's own power, modem & mouse), but I often use up to
5 at once (with the camera and flash drive). The only cards I've got at the
moment are a 4x AGP card (64meg GeForce2) and a LAN card. Oh and one 8cm
case fan. I don't run the monitor through the power supply, it get's it's
own socket.
I've got an old 250w supply in there (with the 2 CD drives disconnected)
until I get the new one. So will 400w be enough to fulfill my upgrades (XP
3000+ cpu and 120gig HDD) or should I go 450 or 500?
thanks
matt