Athlon 850 + 145W PS?

[bj0nes]

Hi:
I was wondering if anyone has had experience with running a Tbird in a microatx case with a 145-180w power supply. I want to build a little pc for the living room & some socket A boards with tv out are looking good, but I'm worried that the power supply won't be up to the task. I'll just be running a single hd and cd. Any advice will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bobby

 

[DragonFire]

145-185 watts for a tbird......muhahahaha


I dont think so.......you can try but I would suggest at least 300watts

 

[EKAtBzboyz]

i think atleast a good 200-250w would be required....you can try running it (unless you have to buy the psu still, then just get a bigger one)

if the +5v, +12v, +3.3v lines are too low (fluctuate more than 10-15% below the rated volts) i would not use that psu
it would cause some stability issues most likely

 

[Killrose]

A good 235watt unit will work fine, I have an overclocked T-bird 800@950 in my second box running just fine. You could try it for grins. Just use some sort of hardware monitoring to check your voltages (if it runs, LOL).

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I've seen white box builds using similar configs that run just fine and since it's a 180w mATX PSU it should suffice for the type of setup you're planning. The Athlon 850mhz only uses approximately 50w and since you will be using an mATX board with on-board video and only 1 HDD and ATAPI drive you shouldn't have any issues.

 

[bj0nes]

Thanks all, I'm going to give it a shot - if I need to I can even try underclocking this one, it'll still be fast enough for what I want it for.

 

[RU482]

Tbird-850
(SEC) 1.7V
(1.6V~1.8V) 2.1V -- -- 29.4A 40.2W 44.8W 70° C
Tbird-850
(PGA) 1.7V
(1.6V~1.8V) 2.1V -- -- 29.4A 40.2W 44.8W 90° C
Tbird-850
(PGA) 1.75V
(1.65V~1.85V) 2.1V -- -- 27A 42W 47W 90° C
processor specs link...scroll down

 

[RU482]

I've been fairly pleased with this case, but you need low profile cards

Here's another...uATX tower, 300W PS, 90mm fans

 

[Strawa]

250w would be ok