250Watt PSU and Athlon XPs

[freshspace]

Can you run an Athlon XP with a 250Watt PSU?

 

[splice]

Sure, as long as it's a quality power supply.

 

[Krumpet]

And you cant be running anything else besides a floppy, cd and hdd.

 

[shr]

There's a good power supply article in tomshardware.com with a summary of the requirements of a modern PC, it might give you an idea based on what you have/will upgrade to soon

Link to it

 

[Cerb]

I got a neighbor running none other than a K7S5A on 250w PSU (he didn't buy a new one for it, but runs fine). However, it is an Enlight, and the thing runs any low-end system fine (the same model PSU in my machine wouldn'tlet meplay serious sam, but I could doPSX emulation no problem), but if you're not sure about it being a good PSU, then get a good 300w or better.

 

[EKAtBzboyz]

it will work, but if you upgrade something (add in) in the future, expect to buy another psu
also dont expect much, if any, overclocking

 

[Gomce]

I run

1400 mhz Tbird
KT266A mobo (7vtxe Gbyte)
256 ddr pc2100
gf3 oced to 290 / 600
Liteon 12x10x32 CD Rw
Hitachi 12x10 DVD Rom
DVB Digital video broadcasting Sattelite TV&Internet Card (Skystar1)
Live! Sb
Realtek ethernet card
2 case fans + 1 cpu fan | all 80mm 3000 rpm
modem 56k PCI

everything on 250W generic PSU, no problem or BSODs whatsoever

 

[kgraeme]

Yes.

 

[BigFatCow]

a 300 watt is plenty for a system with 3 cdroms and 2 hds, so 250 should be enough for more barebone computer...