Can Windows make 180W Enough?

[Spikesoldier]

Is a MicroATX 180Watt Power Supply enough to run:

ABIT BD7M Motherboard
2x 256MB Samsung PC2700
P4 1.8A GHz
ATI AIW Radeon 8500DV
80GB IBM GXP120 HDD
16x Pioneer DVD
SoundBlaster Live!
NIC
Zip 100

And a few USB Devices sometimes?

Is there any settings in windows that will let me squeak by?

 

[DIRTsquirt]

ROFLMAO!!!! the answer is no!
or prolly not.
Good luck to you.
and Have a good summer

 

[bozo1]

I'd give it a go. 180-watts is fairly standard for MicroATX systems. Your lineup looks pretty standard to me except for the vid card which is the only possible problem I see.

The P4 doesn't have the goofy power requirements of Athlons.

People seem to forget that many years ago it was very common for us to have 4 or more hard drives in one system when 200meggers were the biggest around. Those old drives sucked alot more juice than the ones today. A common powersupply in those days was 150 watts or smaller.

And no, there is nothing in windows that you can change that would affect this.

 

[neuralfx]

i don't think you will find a 180w psu that is ATX 2.0 compliant .. You will be severely pushing it on 180w, intel or not .. just my thoughts ..
-neural

 

[TheCorm]

Yeah, I think that power supply would be okay running a sub 1ghz Intel with a basic obboard graphics card but not a P4 1.8ghz + Radeon 8500.

 

[MoMeanMugs]

It's not gonna work. I bet you can't even get enough juice out of it to get it booted. That is a big draw itself. If by some miracle it boots, it will crash harder than any computer made by HotChic and Baffled2's kid. 😛

 

[MisterMe]

All specualtation aside the only real way to know is to hook it up and find out...I myself would give it a 70/30 chance of working reliably. Good Luck!

 

[DaiShan]

give it a go, as long as it is ATX compliant, you won't do damage to your mobo, but I really doubt it is enough power to run that stuff, and you will probably be plagued by reandom reboots and lockups.