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Successful 250W Power Supply on ECS K7S5A??

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Gumby16

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Has anyone out there successfully used a 250W power supply on a K7S5A m/b? My m/b is trashed and I would like to use all of the components on this m/b, but I don't know if the 250W PS is strong enough. It's only a Duron 800, 256MB RAM, 2 hard drives, and a CD burner. Any suggestions or success stories would be reassuring.
 
Hardly ... the key is regulation quality not strength though. What's the combined total allowance on +5V and +3.3V (should be around 140 watts for this)? Does it supply at least 1.5A on +5Vstandby?
 
The +3.3V and +5V have a 165W total allowance. The +5V has a 2.0A stand-by. It's a pretty solid power supply. When the last PS blew, it fried the DIMM sockets on the old m/b, but the RAM and CPU and just fine. I'm just looking for a cheap replacement that can be upgraded with relative ease later, and figured the SDRAM/DDR capability of the ECS would work well. I've also heard it's a good OC board if you fiddle with it long enough and that it runs stable once it's going. And at $55 for the board, a little elbow grease is worth it.
 
I've also heard it's a good OC board if you fiddle with it long enough
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Yes and no. There are no oc abilities that are "standard" on the board or in the BIOS. You CAN get an "overclocking BIOS" authored by a third party and get some reasonable overclocking out of it. However, there are no multiplier adjustments or vcore voltage adjustments. So, your pretty much stuck with some (Limited) FSB adjustments.

Just go to this site (the ECS Forum) and you will get many answers to this and other questions.
 
Gumby,

I have successfully used a 250w on an ECS K7S5A board. The old "Wintop" 250w came from my old p3 500mhz machine. I am using just 1 dvd rom, 20gig HD, 2x 128 SDRAM, 8mb matrox agp card and xp 1800+. I have not encountered any funny bios or cmos errors (since correcting it upon initial setup). Hopefully yours will work too, if not, a sparkle 300w is about 27$ on newegg ithink.
 
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