250w 300w is there much difference?

[ChrisIsBored]

For running a 1Ghz T-Bird do I really need a 300W power supply? Or can I settle with 250? What are the pro's vs. the con's(extra $).

 

[KouklatheCat]

you can run more stuff like drives fans etc. Quality of the power supply is more important

 

[CHiMPBizKiT]

Yeah, it helps to have more power connectors, instead of running out of them with a 250W. It's also nice to know you have a 300W powering your system, instead of a 250W.

 

[oreoafk]

Is 300 watt really enough?

I got

AMD ThunderBird 1ghz
Abit kt7-raid
all in wonder radeon
(3) IBM Deskstar 7200rpm 45gig
512 sdram pc133
Plextor 12x10x32x
12x dvd
sb live value

 

[Zedfu]

chrisisbored,
i recommend getting at 300 or more watt power supply if you run lots of drives and fans off your pc, example, multiple case cooling fan, cdrom/cdrw/dvd, multiple drives for raid0/1, etc.

anything that consumes much power calls for a larger power supply.

 

[moolman]

Hi,
If you don't have already a power supply, you should definitly get a 300watt, just for the heck of it, you will be able to get by with a 250, but why risk it since the price difference isn't much. If you look at my sig, I have a bunch of high power crap, and not included are a bunch of fans, a dvd decoder card, etc. way more stuff, and I was able to run it fine on a 300watt, now I upgraded for the heck of it cause I gave my old antec 300 to my bro, an enermax 330. But the antec 300 was more than enough.

Alex

 

[ChrisIsBored]

I'm going to build just a gaming system which i'll be dragging around for LAN games and such..

with a 1 Ghz t-bird, vid card, cdrom, 10/100 NIC, sound card and a SCSI HD, same in my profile...

I don't plan on adding anything else to it but I suppose some extra fans would be good...

for the case I was planning on buying, it comes with 250w, buying a seperate 300w is like an added $30... i'm a cheap bastard...

 

[Ulysses]

I'd recommend you pick one from AMD's approved list. Maybe get the Antec PP403X, which is approved for the 1.2 GHz T-bird, if you like Antec. I think they run about $80-85.

It is the "quality" of the PS that counts, not the wattage, however quality might be defined.

 

[ChrisIsBored]

Thank you all for the input. ;]