Will a 250 watt be enough????

[LowlyWebGuy]

Will a 250 watt power supply be enough for a AMD 750 thunderbird and an ASUS A7V, I am selling my motherboard and processor to someone but I don't want to lose my 300 watt power supply and he has a 250. Will 250 be enough for this processor?

 

[TheWarder]

I've been running the following system on a 250w supply without problems:
- ABIT KT7a
- AMD Athlon 1300
- 2 HD's (8 & 30GB)
- 1 DVD
- 1 CDwriter
- 1USB webcam
- 1 Logitech USB Wingman Force JS

So from my experience I would say you should be OK.

As always, your mileage may vary...

Hope this helps some

Johan

 

[meaty]

Depends what brand the psu is.
I ran a 250 on a 900mhz t-bird & all went great with alot of case fans and all.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

<< I've been running the following system on a 250w supply without problems:
- ABIT KT7a
- AMD Athlon 1300
- 2 HD's (8 & 30GB)
- 1 DVD
- 1 CDwriter
- 1USB webcam
- 1 Logitech USB Wingman Force JS

So from my experience I would say you should be OK.

As always, your mileage may vary...

Hope this helps some

Johan >>

like TheWarder said...

 

[SpideyCU]

Yeah, I built a system for my sister w/ a 750 Duron, similar specs to what's quoted above, she's had no problems with it.

 

[MiklosMillora]

There isn't a problem unless you are running 4 fans 2 harddrives and 2 CDR/CD drives etc.. More hardware on the power supply will make that 250 burn out quicker than Mariah Carey

 

[Killrose]

I've got an 800@950 T-bird in my second system, and it runs fine on a 235watt Aopen supply. It depends on the quality of the supply, but a 750 T-bird has very little demand, 250watt should be fine if it's within spec and not near death.

 

[LowlyWebGuy]

Thank you for all of your info, it will make him happy that he won't have to buy a new supply!

 

[hoihtah]

what brand of 250w does he have?

but like most people said here...
250w should be enough for 750 thunderbird...
as long as you're not oc'ing it too much.

 

[LowlyWebGuy]

its an aopen...so it should work...fingers are crossed!!!

 

[Riker1]

If you are really worried about the power situation then just retain your 300watt power supply for his 250watt.

 

[Mavrick007]

I have an Aopen case and a 300Watt power supply and it has done very well for the past 3 years.

I would expect that as long as your friend isn't using anything that will draw huge amounts of power(ie. not running a server case with multiple hard drives and cd/dvd roms), then he should be ok.