Will a 235W PSU run this system?

[Yzzim]

The power supply is a Hipro 235W. Has been running a small Celeron 400 for a couple years now.

Here's the system I'm hoping to run with it:

AMD AthlonXP 1700+
256MB DDR
Radeon 32MB DDR
60gig hdd
CDRW
CD-ROM
Modem


Thanks 🙂

 

[Adul]

I highly doubt it.

 

[Yzzim]

forgot to mention the system will be lightly used.

Internet, MS Money, Kazaa, Winamp, will be the primary application used. No heavy gaming at all.

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: Adul
I highly doubt it.

I doubt it very much too,maybe a high quality 250watts but 235 I dont think so.

 

[Tanked]

I bet it will run it - but the load on it will be high (near 100%) and it will fail more quickly then you might like.

 

[crazychicken]

i agree with tanked. you'd be surprised how much a small psu can handle, but i agree that the failure time will be much sooner than a tolerable amount of time

 

[flood]

I think it'll be fine.
anyone wanna make it a bet? 😀

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: flood
I think it'll be fine.
anyone wanna make it a bet? 😀

Yes I do,I will take that bet,I bet you under full load (prime95) it will because very unstable.

 

[Yzzim]

Originally posted by: Budman

Originally posted by: flood
I think it'll be fine.
anyone wanna make it a bet? 😀

Yes I do,I will take that bet,I bet you under full load (prime95) it will because very unstable.

This system will rarely be under full load...

 

[Yzzim]

System seems to be running fine with the 235W PSU 🙂

I'll see on Monday or Tuesday how it holds up.

 

[dexvx]

What the heck?

I have a 250W Enlight, and it barely even turns on for 1 minute before it dies down.

AthlonXP 1600+
256MB DDR
Nvidia Riva 128 4MB PCI
20GB HDD
CD-Rom
Floppy

Edit: Can you check your PSU's rating for 3V, 5V, 12V? And please tell me how your voltages are holding up with a hardware monitor 😛

 

[psteng19]

I think It'll be fine.

I had a generic 235W power the following:
MSI K7T Turbo
XP1600+ w/TT Volcano2
GF2 GTS 32 Meg
384 MB PC133 Ram (3 sticks of 128)
Sound Blaster Live Platinum (w/Live Drive 1)
Linksys NIC
24x Burner
24X CDROM

And another generic 250 watt power a very similar system.
Check rigs in sig for more details.

I said it once and I'll say it again.
Power supply requirements are OVER-RATED

 

[nightowl]

It is hard to say with that system, but my friend just put together a K7S5A with a XP1600. He has 2 CD drives, 2 hard drives and an ATI Rage 128. It runs fine and has not caused him any trouble yet.

 

[TimeKeeper]

Cousin's using Inwin mATX's 180Watt PS running following rig 247 for a month now. (I wonder how long this PS will last also)

XP1600+
512MB DDR
Abit N7Vm Nforce board
Onboard nforce sound
Radeon 8500LE
Liteon 40X CDRW
Maxtor 7200rpm HD
FD
Netgear NIC
USB PDA docking
USB optical mouse
USB MMS card reader
USB web cam.

She constantly do burning CD while sing on Karoke Chatroom. (don't ask, you don't want to know)

 

[CubicZirconia]

My friend runs a similar system (40 gig hdd, only 1 cd drive) on a generic 230 watt psu. Its probably borderline, but it isn't impossible.

 

[dexvx]

I have come to the conclusion that Enlight PSU's suck.

 

[Ryan]

Try and find a "gateway" PSu from somewhere. I have on, rated @ 220w, and is running an 1.4ghz thunderbird, 512mb ram, dvd-rom, cdrw, two hard drive, and a TON of USB devices.

 

[fr]

Originally posted by: psteng19
Power supply requirements are OVER-RATED

 

[DaFinn]

I used to run the following:

XP1800+
Epox 8KHA+
512 DDR
2x Maxtor 40G
DVD
CD-RW
GF3
USB scanner and printer

Off of a 235W PSU without any problems. Only thing was, that the PSU would run very hot! I switched to 350W Codegen, and it is running cool. ALso my system temp went down 2-3 degrees C. If the PSU is of high quality, it can handle it. It just wont last as long.

By the way, you say only light usage but your system will draw max power at startup.

-DaFinn

 

[microAmp]

Originally posted by: flood
I think it'll be fine.
anyone wanna make it a bet? 😀

Nope,

link, not sure about how updated this is. Also provides link to being approved on AMD's site, (dead link though, since AMD removed that page)

 

[Yzzim]

Originally posted by: motoamd

Originally posted by: flood
I think it'll be fine.
anyone wanna make it a bet? 😀

Nope,

link, not sure about how updated this is. Also provides link to being approved on AMD's site, (dead link though, since AMD removed that page)

Sweet link. Didn't know the PSU was AMD Approved 🙂

 

[amdskip]

145w gateway power supply
750 duron
hard drive
burner
no sweat!

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: Adul
I highly doubt it.

ditto. maybe if u had a sparkle, but even that would be pushing it big time.