athlon owners please read!!

[hclarkjr]

friend is going to sell me an athlon 500 and msi k7 pro motherboard,i am wondering if my enlight 250 watt power supply will handle it and if my generic PC 100 SDRAM will also.i have a mitsumi 2x4x8 cd burner,48x cd-rom,maxi gamer xentor tnt2 video card,3com 10/100 nic,pci modem,maxtor 10 gig udma 33,192 meg pc 100 sdram,globalwin fan and heatsink,soundblaster live value and a case fan.it runs fine with my current setup on a FIC PA 2013 motherboard with a k6-2 450@500 mhz.thanx

 

[Brian48]

A little on the low side, but it should be adequate. Never know until you try.

 

[Dennis Travis]

Even though I am not yet an Athlon owner I have read quite a lot about it. It really depends on the quality of the 250 Watt Power Supply. Since the Athlon came out it has made it clear that all 250 Watt or 300 Watt for that matter power supplies are NOT created equally. It really depends on the current of the 3.3 and 5.0 Volt rails. Both should be up there. From all I have read the Enlight 250 should be fine with your Athlon 500. Someone correct me if I am wrong but I am sure that is one of the few 250 Watt PS's that are on the recomended list at AMD.

 

[hclarkjr]

i just checked at AMD site but the lowest athlon listed is 600 mhz, i have emailed their tech support but who knows if they will answer.it is hit or miss with them as far as answering emails,sometimes they do and sometimes they don't.

 

[mpitts]

You shouldn't have an problems with the power supply. I would be concerned about the RAM. I had some generic PC133 RAM that I had to return because it would NOT work in my KA7 board.

 

[Electric Amish]

IMO, that power supply should be just fine.

amish

 

[NesuD]

A friend of mine had been running an athlon 500 on a msi board with the 235 watt enlight power supply for many months now with no problems

 

[Dean]

Running my athlon 550, dual scsi drives...an Ide drive, NiC, soundblaster live, tnt2 ultra 192 mb of ram on a 235 watt power supply without a problem

 

[H8tank]

I Installed a 600 on a K7Pro in a genereic mid tower that had a 200 watt power supply. Been running fine for months. He also has a V3 2000.

That's a Great MB too, best Slot A IMO.