Am I Overloading My Power Supply?

[SharkB8]

Here is my new system-

Addtronics 6890A with 300watt PS
ASUS CUSL2-c
P3 800EB
Golden Orb Heatsink
ASUS GeForce GTS2 32mb (AGP)
Promise FastTrak 100
(2) WD 20.5gig ATA66, striped
ASUS 50x CD ROM
Teac Floppy Drive
Philip Acoustic Edge Soundcard
3Com 905tx Network Card
2 x 128mb Crucial RAM
(1) 92mm Case Fan
(4) 80mm Case Fans

I have not fired this system up yet but I am concerned that I am getting ready to overload the power supply. Am I??

 

[Zach]

No. Maybe. Probably not... just try it, it wont shoot sparks and explode or anything. From what I hear they just don't put out power above a certain point and you'll get crashes (?).

 

[w9design]

You should be fine... I have a similar setup with an AMD processor, which is far more taxing.

 

[cvlegion]

Not to brag of course, but I have more on my computer than you do and I am running an Enlight 300W power supply and have been doing so for over a year now. Absolutely no problems.

I even know someone running a dual P3 rig with almost as much stuff and running a 250W P/S and has been running longer than mine has. He runs this thing 24/7 also. I don't know about this though, I would suggest at least a 300W P/S in his case.

Anyhow, you should be fine.

 

[Bignate603]

I ran an 800 t'bird with a geforce2 GTS on a 230 watt powersupply for a while, sadly, it killed the supply. Worse comes to worse, you overload the supply, it refuses to boot or crashes. It may work even if you have more than 300 watts on it, just may not work for a long time...

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

Absolutely fine!

 

[Mday]

probably not.

i did max out my 300W power supply.

 

[Stevem627]

No problems there with that list.

 

[BurnItDwn]

No yer not

I have ran my 300watt PS with much more Power Gobbeling parts then that before

2 seagate Elite 9 drives for starters (these are 5400 RPM drives ... they are the size as 2 cdrom drives and drain about 40 watts or more each)
2 maxtor 30gb diamondmax drives
1 ibm 20gb 7200rpm deskstar
Abit Kt7 Raid
S&F CDR drive
Pioneer DVD drive
SB live
mitsumi Floppy
S32000 vid card
5 80mm fans
cpu fan, chipset fan, vidcard fan, card cooler fan
netgear fa310x 10/100 nic
another cheap 10/100 nic
and a USB modem (backup just in case cable went down)


currently my setup is different ..but i ran with these components for about 5 or 6 months ... and no problems ...

 

[Valis]

Umm I am having some problems with my BH6 with Cel 300A @ 464 runing
my NEW LeadTek GF2 GTS, I get blank screen / lockups after a min or
so, works fine with a GF2MX though.

I have a Elan Vital 235Watt PSU.

Any ideas?

 

[Zach]

Valis: Stop overclocking for a bit and see what happens. CPU could b overheating or something doesn't like what you've don't to the bus speed.

 

[Davegod75]

your fine. boot that sucker up

 

[Sir Fredrick]

Shouldn't be a problem. My setup:

300W PS
ASUS P2B-DS
Dual PIII450s, with a total of 3 heatsink fans altogether (2 on one, 1 on the other)
(2) 128MB PC133 DIMMS
TNT video card
Quantum Atlas 10K
IBM 18ES DNES 7200RPM
Quantum Atlas II 7200RPM
Plextor Ultraplex 40MAX
Plextor PlexWriter 820
ISA soundcard
ISA winmodem
Realtek NIC
Linksys NIC
(4) 80mm fans
USB Webcam (powered from computer)
USB scanner (self powered)


As you can see this is a loaded system. I haven't had any problems yet.