Is my 300W power supply big enough for all this hardware?

Fuzzymath

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I posted this in Tech Support also but thought this was really the right category. Thanks in advance.

I have a Enlight 7237 case with a 300 watt ps. I finally received my new IBM 45GB 7200 rpm hard drive - had to RMA the original one. I'm about to install it in my computer with all the other hardware listed below. Will the ps handle it?

Asus A7V133 mobo (onboard audio) w/Athlon 900@1040
Asus V7700 Deluxe GF2
Lucent Winmodem in PCI slot
TDK CD-RW 16x10x40x
Pioneer DVD 115R 16x
Floppy drive
Two Maxtor 30GB 7200 rpm hard drives in raid-0
Two case fans
IBM 45GB 7200 rpm hard drive (mentioned above).


 

Klosters

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Weyell. The DTLA is going to raise your case temp by ~5F. The Enlight 7237 is seriously underfanned. If your two case fans are 120mm's, that's 12 Watts, if they're ~100 cfm's. I think you're OK, but personally I'd go for a 350 or even 400 Watt PS when the one you have goes bah-bye.
 

Generalen

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Fuzzymath is that TDK burner good???, I plan to buy that burner some day. What's your experience whit it?
Thx
 

MCS

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300W will be plenty. I have run more than that on a 235W before.

If you are concerned, use a voltage monitoring program and put your system under load (eg copying a huge file from CD to HD) and see if they dip drastically or not. You can also tell if the PSU is being stressed if you touch it and it is unusually hot.
 

kingz

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dont worry, 300W is more than enough, thats why its "recommended" I would say a 200W PS would still run good.
 

techfuzz

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Most definitely. I have all that plus more running on the same 300 watt ps in the same Enlight 7237 case. I'm running fine at the moment but had to unhook one CDROM because I ran out of molex Y-splitters.

Oh yeah, mines a duallie and it doesn't have problems with power.
 

Fuzzymath

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Thanks everybody. I feel better knowing other people have similar setups w/no problems.

MCS -- good ideas. I might even take the time and look at the specs on each piece of hardware and add up the watts to get the total.

Generalen -- the TDK is nice. It's fast and quiet - balanced well. I had the Yamaha Lightspeed 10x40x16x but it was loud and vibrated bad -- I was wedging rubber stuff in the case trying to stop the case from rattling. I took it back and got the TDK and it's smooth. TDK comes with Nero 5.48 CD.