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Need Recommendation: What type of Power Supply for an SMP (Dual CPU) system?

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junthin

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I'm going to be building (as soon as this spring break is over of course) a Dual PIII 1.0Ghz system. What type and wattage of Power Supply should I get? Is 300Watts enough? The system will have 2 U2W SCSI 10k rpm hard drives, 3 cdrom/dvd drives, and a floppy. Any help would be appreciated.
 
I'm guestimating a peak consumption of about 280W if everything peaked at the same time. You can always buy a 350W~400W power supply as a saftey margin. I'm told dual-P3 systems are MP, not SMP, by the way.
 
Check out my rig in my sig. I run all that off a 300W without any problems. It's a dual for comparison sake.

And dual P3 computers are SMP.
 
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