should i add more juice for my computer?

[dakata24]

athlon xp 1700+ (not overclocked)
soyo dragon+ mobo
512MB Ram
Geforce3 Ti200 (o/c to Ti500 speed)
120gb maxtor hd
80gb seagate hd
80gb maxtor hd
usb 2.0 pci card
firewire pci card
cdrw drive
dvd-rom drive

running off a 300watt antec p/s that came with my sx1040 case.

 

[Kenny]

Orange.

 

[yoda291]

apple

 

[loup garou]

Just as long as it isn't man juice.

 

[Nitemare]

grape

 

[Shawn]

prune?

 

[edmicman]

grapefruit

 

[slycat]

video card and cpu or oc the cpu.

 

[Mill]

Pineapple or Pear.

 

[Koing]

Your computer does not need steriods.

 

[ROTC1983]

Cranberry

 

[GoingUp]

avacado

 

[Nohr]

You mean add a larger psu? 300W is low considering you're running 3 hard drives. Wouldn't hurt to get a 400W+.

 

[Beau]

n/m

 

[dakata24]

lol. should have worded that alittle better..

apple juice it is.

time to check HD for a bigger power supply.

 

[Beau]

Check it here

According to that, you should get a larger one. At least a 350watt

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: dakata24
lol. should have worded that alittle better..

apple juice it is.

time to check HD for a bigger power supply.

I win!

 

[Dragon365]

Originally posted by: Nohr
You mean add a larger psu? 300W is low considering you're running 3 hard drives. Wouldn't hurt to get a 400W+.

Yeah, get a new 400 watt power supply from the hot deals forum.

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: Dragon365

Originally posted by: Nohr You mean add a larger psu? 300W is low considering you're running 3 hard drives. Wouldn't hurt to get a 400W+.

Yeah, get a new 400 watt power supply from the hot deals forum.

Don't listen to that crap.

It's not about how many watts you have, it's about the quality of the PSU. My 220w PSU is pushing my 2.5ghz p4, two sticks of ram, two hard drives, dvd and cdrw, floppy, two system fans, an ATI AIW 8500 DV, Sound Blaster sound card, HPNA 2.0 card, and 5 usb devices - it's as stable as a rock. My previous setup was was using a THUNDERBIRD 1ghz cpu (super-power hungry), and this PSU was fine

 

[Nohr]

Originally posted by: rbloedow

Don't listen to that crap.

It's not about how many watts you have, it's about the quality of the PSU. My 220w PSU is pushing my 2.5ghz p4, two sticks of ram, two hard drives, dvd and cdrw, floppy, two system fans, an ATI AIW 8500 DV, Sound Blaster sound card, HPNA 2.0 card, and 5 usb devices - it's as stable as a rock. My previous setup was was using a THUNDERBIRD 1ghz cpu (super-power hungry), and this PSU was fine

I had my overclocked Tbird 1GHz@1.35GHz and overclocked GF3 Ti200 running on a 250W psu and it worked fine for a year. Voltages were a little low but no problems. Then it suddenly died. While it may work I certainly wouldn't recommend it.

Quality definately does play a part in things but you can't tell how well a psu is made by looking at a pic on an online store, so in general you have to go by the wattage.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Nohr

Originally posted by: rbloedow

Don't listen to that crap.

It's not about how many watts you have, it's about the quality of the PSU. My 220w PSU is pushing my 2.5ghz p4, two sticks of ram, two hard drives, dvd and cdrw, floppy, two system fans, an ATI AIW 8500 DV, Sound Blaster sound card, HPNA 2.0 card, and 5 usb devices - it's as stable as a rock. My previous setup was was using a THUNDERBIRD 1ghz cpu (super-power hungry), and this PSU was fine

I had my overclocked Tbird 1GHz@1.35GHz and overclocked GF3 Ti200 running on a 250W psu and it worked fine for a year. Voltages were a little low but no problems. Then it suddenly died. While it may work I certainly wouldn't recommend it.

Quality definately does play a part in things but you can't tell how well a psu is made by looking at a pic on an online store, so in general you have to go by the wattage.

Yes, your PC died from too little power. That's why PC's always explode when you unplug them... the power level is so low that they just can't take it anymore

 

[Nohr]

Originally posted by: notfred


Yes, your PC died from too little power. That's why PC's always explode when you unplug them... the power level is so low that they just can't take it anymore

My 5v rail was as low as 4.2v at times. The psu was overloaded and eventually gave out under the load. Simple as that.

I never said the PC died, just the psu.

 

[Quixfire]

Originally posted by: ROTC1983
Cranberry