Power supply for 9700 pro?

[jakobkraft]

What sort of power supply would be required for stable 9700 performance? Am considering getting it for myself but a friend of mine is getting it definitely, but her power supply is only 250 watt, and I know that doesn't entirely cut it for the Ti4600... She's got a scanner and I think an HP photo printer . And two drives, one CD-RW, one DVD. And a floppy of course. I think that's it.

Any info would be appreciated!

 

[aircooled]

Really depends on the quality of the PS, and how many other power hungry devices are installed. I personally ran 4 Hard Drives an ATI 8500 , a DVD ROM Drive, a CD ROM Drive, 2 80mm case fans and an AMD XP 1600+ with a 70mm fan on the Heat sink. It ran flawlessly, in fact the only reason I have a new power supply is cause the wife?s' died and she got mine while I ordered a new one.

Here's a good guideline for power supplies, it was written mainly for ECS motherboard since they are particularly susceptible to marginal power supplies but it's a good PSU guide in general.


Click here for the OC Workbench PSU Guide.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

unless you encounter flakey problems that can't be identified your 250W PS should be sufficient, otherwise most 300W PS "borrow" each others switching circutry designs, so most known brands should suffice. You wouldn't need anymore that 300W unless you planned on running a lot of power hungry devices like Raid arrrays, many pci-cards, lots of firewire devices, etc.