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will a !200 watt! psu be able to power a...

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MikeMike

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duron 1000w/ a shuttle ak31a, 128 ddr crucial, 10 or 20 gb hd, 4gb hd,ati 7200, 4x cdrw, cd-rom, networkcard, modem?

right now it is powering a 233 with 4gb hd all the rest is the same just the change in cpu proc and mem and hd.

hopefully it will but you guys are my superiors so please tell me how stable it will be...

NO OVERCLOCKING

until absolutely necessary

yeah my mind was reading 2 things and my hands typed the wrong one then i loged off to figure out wat size fan is in my new dell so i can replace and neva thought to check for that mistake
 
We need to know how many WATTS the power supply is - not how many VOLTS! Every power supply used in North America is 115 volts.
 
It will probably work - at least until you try to use everything at once. If you seem to get random glitches, then you probably want to get a bigger power supply. 300 watts can be had for $30.
 
Not it will not.

2 hard drives and 2 CD drives - 4 IDE drives!

Add DDR which sucks more power than SDR, a fast AGP card, NIC and modem. That's a fully loaded system. Not to mention the sure addition of a CPU HSF and some case fans.

No. 200Watts is grossly inadequate. This may just be a Duron, but you have too many devices to power.
 
I would give it a try and here is my reasoning (as opposed to some of the blanket statements given above):

1. There are a number of 200-watt supplies that AMD has certified for use on a Duron 1000.
2. 2 hard drives - so what. They are pulling from 12-volt rail, the processor just cares about the 5-volt and 3.3-volt lines. Even 80-gig, 7200RPM drives only pull around 24-watts and that is on startup, they pull less than 12-watts when actually running. CD's just sit idle until used.
3. Case fans - same thing. They use the 12-volt line.

It all depends on the specific powersupply. Some 200 watters supplied the required amperage on the 3.3 and 5 volt rails that the Duron needs, some don't.
 
it could work, but might not be stable. Why waste time when you can buy a 320W psu for $20?
 
im gunna see if my parents will let me build a new comp basically. I think i might get a Nforce 415 for 89.00 MSI at newegg ?good deal? a 1ghz duron a 20 gb hd a few fans new case and pull the cd-rw from my old computer and use it in my new one for a cd-rom drive a very basic lan box with sum capabilities and throw the 7200 in it with a cheap gpu into the old comp so it can be used for word processing and probably no floppy


does the MSi come with a built in NIC? modem?
 
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