Can I run a Duron setup on a 250 Watt power supply?

[Mer]

Can I run a Duron setup on a 250 Watt power supply?

Or do I need to go out and buy a new 300 watt power supply?

Any recomendations?

Mer.

 

[gnoymyguy]

should be fine, I'm running 300watt with tv card, soundcard and network card and it's perfectly stable-durons use a lot less power than athlons

my bro runs a slotA athlon 800 with gforce 1 DDR with a 250watt and that is stable too

 

[McCarthy]

Probably!

Ran my Tbird at 800 with a 235w Enlight. 2 CDs, 2 HDs, TVtuner, Radeon, SCSI card, networking card, modem, soundcard...all happy together.

Then I tried plugging in a HD while the computer was running. Now I have an Enermax...computer works exactly the same, no worse, no better.

--Mc

 

[Mer]

Thanks for the input guys!!

Now to go find someone who's selling the following cheap:-

MSI KT7 turbo
AMD Duron 700Mhz or higher

Looking to spend about $140.00

Feel free to send me links to others on the forum who can help me.

Sweetness to you all,
Mer.

 

[rogue1979]

Pricewatch has the KT7 turbo for about $110 shipped. They also have a Duron 700 for $35 shipped. Total $145, if you put a gladiator/golden gate on there you have a good shot at 1GHz. http://store.yahoo.com/svcompucycle/index.html has them for only $19.98 shipped.

 

[Killrose]

I'm using a 235watt Aopen supply with my system. I've even used the power hungry Gf1 DDR with the same setup, no problems. It all depends on the Quality of the supply.

 

[Garet Jax]

Mer,

The best thing to do is to try it out. It should work, but if it doesn't there is a thread here talking about 300W and 340W PS for pretty cheap.

 

[Mer]

You guys rock!!

Now to contact that buyer to sell off my dual celery and bp6 setup.

Sweetness,
Mer.

 

[Mer]

Should i go for a Duron 700Mhz or 750Mhz??

Which is the better in overclocking terms??

Need advice asap!!

Mer.

 

[Muerto]

My Duron has been fine with my 250W PSU, although a 300W wouldn't hurt obviously. I think that both clock speeds would give good overclocking results. I haven't heard of one being significantly better than the other so I'd go with the 700 cause it's cheaper.

EDIT: If you manage to overclock to a very high speed then I'd go with a better PSU. But for 600 - 800MHz 250W is usually fine for a Duron.

 

[DonNiggera]

My friend john is running all this on his 250w power supply:

duron 650@900
256mb crucial
DVD 16x
He used to have a 4/4/24 cdrw (he sold it)
Floppy
Abit KT7
GeForce SDR (used to be radeon, but he sold it to get better radeon; still hasn't haha)
SB Live
Hollywood TV Tuner


Course he sometimes gets reboots, power failures, etc... but nothign extreme.