Will 300 Watts be enough?

[idNut]

I'll be getting a new motherboard and processor (P4 2.0 478 PIN) and I was curious if 2 hard drives and 3 CDROMs would be too much for the powersupply. Probably not but I wasn't really sure. Also, I'm not buying any fans with this, should I? Here are the links to the stuff I'm getting.

Motherboard
Case
Pentium 4 Processor

 

[idNut]

So no one wants to help me, what's new?

 

[mastay]

It depends on the quality of the PSU. An enermax or antec probably could handle it. A generic probably might not. It also will depend on the rest of your rig such as vid card and stuff. I currently run an XP 1800+, with 2 harddrives, Radeon 8500LE, 1 cd rom and 1 cd-rw on a 300W antec and it is perfectly stable. I think PIV also use elss power than Athlon XP. So, I think you should be okay given that your cd-rom is not 100x or something and that you have a brand name PSU.

 

[bozo1]

It'll work fine.

The reason no one replied is that this question is asked daily and a simple search would have shown that.