- Jan 31, 2006
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I just bought a Northwood 3.2, and would really like to get it up to 3.6, but my PSU is only 380W. It is a Tagan, and the 12V rail has 22A. Mmy GPU is only an X700 128 Pro (I got it for $50 and its GDDR3 before I get flamed for having a rubbish card).
I know overclocking a Prescott on anything short of a personal power station isn't advisable, but the Northwood should use significantly less power right? I am also only running 2 120mm fans off the 12V and I'm only ever going to have 1 7200 HDD and 1 DVDROM.
Can it be done? See I built this system around an old 2.4 P4 from a broken laptop.. turned out it was the processor which was broken XD (I was told it was the MB), so if anyone was wondering why my PSU is so low-end I really didn't think I'd need more than 22A.
I know overclocking a Prescott on anything short of a personal power station isn't advisable, but the Northwood should use significantly less power right? I am also only running 2 120mm fans off the 12V and I'm only ever going to have 1 7200 HDD and 1 DVDROM.
Can it be done? See I built this system around an old 2.4 P4 from a broken laptop.. turned out it was the processor which was broken XD (I was told it was the MB), so if anyone was wondering why my PSU is so low-end I really didn't think I'd need more than 22A.