hmm heres one for you Justin, I have a 300 watt power supply in my current computer, i have 1 dvd rom, 1 CD-RW, 1 HD, and 1 floppy. If i were to add another hard drive, should i upgrade my power supply?
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hmm heres one for you Justin, I have a 300 watt power supply in my current computer, i have 1 dvd rom, 1 CD-RW, 1 HD, and 1 floppy. If i were to add another hard drive, should i upgrade my power supply?
Mine is 250 watt and it works fine with CD-RW, DVD, Hard-drive x2 and 1 floppy.
Whats the combined 3.3v and 5v output say?
What brand is the power supply?
it SHOULD work, unless it's like Deer or something
there is sort of a table on there:
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3.3V| 5V
15A | 29A
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and it is a ATNG Power Co ltd
I have never heard of the brand
I'd imagnie it would work fine...Quote:
Originally posted by Gandalf_Grey_
there is sort of a table on there:
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3.3V| 5V
15A | 29A
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and it is a ATNG Power Co ltd
I have never heard of the brand
yeah it should work no probs at all, one of my friends has to go and buy a new PSU today as he was running an Athlon 900Mhz with a dvd, burner, 2 harddrives, floppy and lots of cards on a 230 watt PSU !!! and he wondered why he was getting probs with his comp :p :p
Again depends on the output of the PSU, the REAL outputQuote:
Originally posted by zmerlinz
yeah it should work no probs at all, one of my friends has to go and buy a new PSU today as he was running an Athlon 900Mhz with a dvd, burner, 2 harddrives, floppy and lots of cards on a 230 watt PSU !!! and he wondered why he was getting probs with his comp :p :p
I have seen people run fine with 250w PSUs (Numtel runs an XP1600 and lots of other stuff on a 250, his voltages are low, but still) and others can't run on certian 300 watt PSUs..if you get a quality one like Antec or Sparkle or PC Power and Cooling you will have few problems..but if you buy some generic crap you willl:p