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About PSU requirements

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Nysse

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I'm buying a new motherboard and CPU for myself and I'm going to give my old ones to my parents. The thing is that the PSU in their current system is 230W and I have no idea if that is enough. Does anyone out there know about PSU requirements? here's the system that they will be having:

AMD Duron 1 GHz
MSI K7T266 Pro2 motherboard
Geforce 2 MX 400something vga-card
+a normal harddisk and cd + cd-rw drives

And onto the second question - About case cooling. I'm going to buy either a 'Athlon 64 3200+' system or a 'Intel Prescott 3,2 GHz' system. Haven't decided yet. Anyway what kind of case cooling do these components require? At the moment the only fan besides the one in graphics card and CPU is in my PSU.
 
yeah well that is quite true, but what I need to know is 'is it possible that the system works with a 230W PSU?'
 
Originally posted by: Nysse
yeah well that is quite true, but what I need to know is 'is it possible that the system works with a 230W PSU?'
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I'd say with 90% confidence, no. I'd be thoroughly shocked if it did.

*EDIT* Actually, I was thinking if you had a high powered video card... but unless you're going to be using a 9600/FX5700 or better, a quality 230 watt PSU might run the rest of it just fine.
 
a 230w will have no problem handling that. just make sure you get yourself a nice psu. seasonic, enermax, antec are among my recommended list.
 
Originally posted by: Sonic587
What brand is the PSU?
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Oh I can't remember and it's 120 km away so I can't check either. All I know is that it's old

Originally posted by: whitelight
a 230w will have no problem handling that. just make sure you get yourself a nice psu. seasonic, enermax, antec are among my recommended list.
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I will... eventually. I've been dreaming for a long time of a silent psu. Mine sounds as if there's a vacuum cleaner inside my case.


Thanks for your replies everyone.
 
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