athlon 900 + abit Ka7 DO I NEED 300W+???

[DBavaria]

Heres my system specs:
165.00 - Abit K7A - AMD K7 500 to 1000MHz CPU's
469.00 - AMD K7 Athlon 900 MHz CPU
17.00 - K7 Athlon Heatsink/Fan Cooler
168.00 - SDRAM 128MB PC-133 168 PIN
78.00 - Enlight 7237 Medium Tower - ATX
244.00 - LeadTek Ge-Force 32Mb DDR AGP 4X Video Card
14.00 - Mitsumi 1.44 FDD
200.00 - Maxtor - Max Plus 30Gb ATA66
78.00 - Complete PC System assembly
64.00 -Creative Labs Live - Value

i havent got it yet (in the mail) but would i need 300w power supply ?? the case it has is only 250 you think the chicken will choke?

 

[Pariah]

I have a lot more in my system than you do, and it ran fine on a 300W. 250 may be stretching it, but if it is a quality PS, you should have no problems.

 

[teknoid]

I'm running a K7A with a 750, G400 Max, SB Live value, Adaptec 29160, 18 GB HD, CD-ROM, CD-RW, and some other assorted goodies.

When I built the system it had a 250 watt. It was "pretty" stable but still did weird stuff now and again. I broke down and got an Antec 300 watt and what a difference it made. I do think (not confirmed) that SCSI equipment puts more drain on a system (power wise) that IDE does.

Considering how cheap a 300 watt P/S is it's probably worth the $40 to step up.

All I can say is that going to 300 watt sure helped my box.

 

[hans007]

get an antec or a delta 250 watt and you'd be fine. There are a number of 250 watts on the amd recommended list for the 900. Even a couple 235s

 

[Netopia]

Maybe I'm just lucky. I've to an Athlon 700 running at 945 in an InWin S500 case with the default 235Watt PS. I figured I might as well try, and if it fails then I could throw another one in. So far it's been running about 6 weeks without a single hiccup. Again...maybe I'm just lucky!

Joe

 

[AMB]

I would say that you need one with the GeForce and an Athlon

 

[mpitts]

I agree with AMB that you should definitely go with a 300W PS if you are going to run an Athlon and GeForce. Both are quite power hungry. 🙂