Dual P3 Power Needs

[GarlicScented]

I've recently inherited a Tyan Tiger 100 dual P3 motherboard with passively-cooled dual P3 500's. I'd like to use it in a case with a 350W Codegen power supply, nVidia GeForce FX 5200 video card, miscellaneous sound card and DVD drive, wireless NIC, and 512MB of PC100. Is this enough power, and a good enough PS, to do the job?

Thanks for your input.

 

[Vegito]

more than enuff.. i ran a few dual p3 up to 1ghz with 250-300 watt cheapo psu.. this was back then where the psu didn't matter much

 

[MercenaryForHire]

I agree with forcesho - 350W is plenty for that machine.

- M4H

 

[GarlicScented]

Thanks for the quick responses. I'm having "issues" in Mandrake 10.1 with ndiswrapper saying that, although the driver is loaded for my NIC, that the NIC is not available during boot-up. Frustrating as heck, as I've gutted ndiswrapper out a few times now and tried different versions and get the same result. Figured I'd go down the power possibility, as this is my first dual CPU system.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: GarlicScented
Thanks for the quick responses. I'm having "issues" in Mandrake 10.1 with ndiswrapper saying that, although the driver is loaded for my NIC, that the NIC is not available during boot-up. Frustrating as heck, as I've gutted ndiswrapper out a few times now and tried different versions and get the same result. Figured I'd go down the power possibility, as this is my first dual CPU system.

I'd go down the "Weird spec boards have NIC issues" route myself, as that's why I get crappy speeds with the onboard Intel NIC in this machine I'm on now.

- M4H

 

[GoSharks]

i run this on a 300watt psu.