Power supplies.

[KK]

I just purchased a case with a 300 watt power supply in it from one of the posts in the hot deals forum. Of course there were people putting their 2 cents in saying that 300 watt would not be enough and that the 420 watt would be better. Well I know it would be better but is it really needed? I mean right now in the case I'm using which has a 300 watt power supply I have 3 hard drives, a floppy, a cd burner, along with a 1.0Ghz Tbird o/c to 1.25Ghz, with a Radeon 64 VIVO card. I also occasionally hook up my canon scanner which the only source of power is through the usb port, that gotta draw some current, but I have yet to see anything bad happen. What does it take to overload a 300 watt power supply?

KK

 

[dunkster]

If no problems - then no problem.

If you have doubts, monitor the voltages. If any of the rail voltages are below 10% of what they should be, then perhaps you should consider a higher wattage PS.

I'm fine with 300W PS, but I'm only running with one HD.

Hope this helps!

 

[duuuma]

I just posted a fresh thread w/ a question like this....Is Rail voltage, the voltage I can monitor in BIOS? If so, anything greater than a 10% fluctuation (in either +/- direction) would be a bad sign? Thanks.