250w PS enough for a Athlon 1600+?

[ahsia]

I am building my dad a machine using the Athlon XP 1600+ with the Iwill KK266+, do you all think a 250w PS will be sufficient?

 

[Alkali]

No.

 

[joshg]

It might be.. depends on what brand/model it is.

 

[bjc112]

Quality over quantity in the PSU world...

Like others said, what brand?

IF its even a half decent brand it will power that thing right up... Granted you don't have tons of other devices and drives...

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: Alkali
No.

This is coming from a person who is just wasting power away with that 550....

 

[Alkali]

Originally posted by: bjc112

Originally posted by: Alkali
No.

This is coming from a person who is just wasting power away with that 550....

I'm a freak

 

[Adul]

border line, but it may

 

[azkiwi]

Do you really want your Dad on your case every time the thing crashes? You'd be a lot better off with any AMD approved PS, perhaps even the cheapest one. A 350W AMD approved unit is only $12 shipped - surely he's worth that much to you...

 

[natopotato]

250watts should be just fine for a 1600+ provided the unit is of good quality.

What brand is the PSU?

 

[Alkali]

hehe.

You people are so wierd My old pc fell over with a 280Watt PSU a few years ago with an Athlon 1200 in it. It was pathetic. Change of PSU and voila - sorted.

PSU's are so cheap you would be very cheap not to get one.... j/k

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: azkiwi
Do you <EM>really</EM> want your Dad on your case every time the thing crashes? You'd be a lot better off with any AMD approved PS, perhaps even the cheapest one. A 350W AMD approved unit is only $12 shipped - surely he's worth that much to you...

And you would put your trust in a $12 power supply? I'd rather have a high quality 200W than a POS 350W.

 

[Alkali]

LOL... I'd rather have a pos 900Watt PSU than a 550Watt quality one.... but then Im wierd....

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: Alkali
LOL... I'd rather have a pos 900Watt PSU than a 550Watt quality one.... but then Im wierd....

Good luck when it blows in your face. At least the electric company will thank you for the extra wasted power.

When PSU's go bad.

 

[thraxes]

GF has my 4 year old 250W PSU running an XP1700 on a AMD761 board.

in addition to:
2 HDDs
Burner
DVD
Ok, the graphics are not that power hungry (Radeon 7000) and other than an NIC nothing is on the PCI bus.

Needless to say that it works with no problems at all (LAN Party proven). But It is a quality PSU and not some cheap POS of the kind that come with cheap cases.

 

[Corporate Thug]

just to be on the safe side you may wanna go 300

 

[ahsia]

The power supply is not with me at this point, but I can't say it is a great PS or not. I think if I can get a AMD approved PS for a good price, I would definitely do that. It's just that there is a 250w PS sitting there right now, so I would rather put it to use instead of letting it sit there to waste. Thanks all!!

 

[moonshinemadness]

i ran mine on a 130w psu on a ECS bored with 2 cd an 2 hadd ran fine!!

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: shady06
just to be on the safe side you may wanna go 300

That's true, you can grab a Sparkle 300 $22.00 bucs from newegg...

That will be plenty of a little bity XP...

 

[DWW]

One of my machines I run is a Barton 2500+ on 180 Watts and its been up 3 weeks under intensive load doing encoding and some prime95, distributed.net and seti. Its been under 100% load. 22 days and some hours uptime. You decide.

 

[Viperoni]

When I consider the Lite On/Bestec 200w MAX ATX PS's used in HP's/Compaq's, used in relatively high end systems (IE: XP2600+, HD, burner, 256mb DDR) and their defective-rates, I tend to feel pretty confident in my Enermax 300w powering my system (see sig).

 

[imported_Phil]

550w?! Good grief...

Mine's got a relatively unknown brand 250w, powering an AMD 3000+, two 7,200rpm Maxtors, ATI 9000 Pro, DVD-R & DVD-ROM drive. Not one crash, lockup or problem yet.

Dopefiend

 

[drag]

Hehe I got a 180w hooked up to my 1700+ (secondary computer my main desktop is a 1700+ too...), but it's a special purpose PC that runs onboard everything a older HD a laptop dvd and that's it. (well exept for the pc card). It's also a microatx supply.

Power supplies are so dam cheap I'd get a 300 watt at least. It's cheap insurance, plus you can get nice ones with quiet fans. Many problems with stability that is blamed on motherboards or RAM (or the OS) is simply lack of power. Hell, get a 450 watt, even if you don't use it all, it will last forever and has plenty room for improvement for your next bunch of upgrades, or a hd raid setup or whatever you may want in the future.