Power Supply -- Sufficient???

NinjaStyle

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Apr 8, 2003
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Do you think the following list of hardware is too much for my 300 watt power supply????
The capacitors on my motherboard have recently started leaking, and it's a good motherboard, so I'm wondering why....

Abit KA7 mainboard
GeForce4
Sound Blaster
Wireless Network Card (linksys)
AMD Athlon 700 mhz overclocked to 950 mhz
Hard Drive Controller Card
SCSI Card
2 128 MB dimms of SDRAM

SCSI hard drive - seagate cheetah 15,000 rpm
IDE hard drive - maxtor 7200 rpm
1 Plextor CD-RW/DVD drive
1 Plextor CD-R drive, 40x

Many fans for cooling.



Thanx for any advice y'all can give.
 

GnomeCop

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I ran a p4 2.53ghz, Intel mobo, 1gb ram, 2 wd 120gb se HDs, cdrw, dvd, audigy2, and radeon 9700 pro AIW on a ZALMAN 300W psu.

you should be fine as long as its a high quality psu
 

NinjaStyle

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Apr 8, 2003
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i have a high-end expensive case, and the power supply came with the case. I don't know what brand tho!

What else could commonly cause capacitors to leak? ABIT makes real high quality mainboards, and I'm a little pissed that they're leaking...