Does more memory requires more power?

[liangedward]

Hi,

I have a PC with Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000-G mother board, 2 IDE hard drivers, 1 cd-rw drive, 1 dvd-rw drive, 1 sound blaster sound card, and 1 ATI X850 video card (it needs additional power supply), and a 350W power supply. Originally I had 520MB memory. I changed to 4 Gigabytes. The system seems less stable with 4 Gig than with lesser memory installed. I upped the memory voltage from default 2.5 to 2.6 as specified by the memory manufacturer, Kingston, and that seems to help the problem. Do I need a bigger power supply?

 

[Harvey]

Some motherboards have problems when all four RAM slots are used. A more powerful supply may help, but if your system is now stable, you can continue to use your current one until it starts to show other signs of needing more power, such as locking up or rebooting... or until you come across a great deal on a new, more powerful supply.

Good luck.