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With all of these hardware, will a good quality 300W handle them?

Bad Dude

Diamond Member
Here are my hardware:
-P4 1.6AGhz@2.24Ghz
-Epox 4G4A+
-Two Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm, 2mb buffer.
-One Maxtor 80GB 7200rpm, 2mb buffer.
-Two Samsung 512MB DDR PC2700.
-48x12x48 Liteon CDRW drive.
-16X DVDrom Liteon.
-ATI 8500LE 128MB @ 275Mhz.
-Santa Cruz.
-On board ethernet chip
-WinTV PC401 Stereo.
-Firewire card.
-V.90 USR hardware gaming modem
-100MB zip drive.
-1.44Mb floppy.
-Two 8cm high speed fans in front.
-1 9cm fan at the back.

Do you guys think a good 300W PSU will handle them? Afterall, Dell P4 3Ghz used in the Dimension 4550 with only a 250W PSU.
So what do you all think?
Thanks.
 
I think it'd be fine, the keyword being quality though. I had a rock solid 300W Sparkle that ran all this for awhile with no problems:

originally Tbird 1200 but later a P4 1.6a at 2.4
4 Seagate Cheetah 18GB 10krpm
1 Maxtor 40GB 7.2krpm
16x pioneer dvdrom
12/4/32 scsi plexwriter
32x cdrom
CL SB PCI 128
Intel Pro100 S network card
LS-120 drive

I think I had a modem in there also, and the case runs a total of 6 80mm fans. 3 of the 4 cheetahs were also in their own 5-1/4" enclosures with active cooling. Voltages were always pretty much spot on, and I never had any power related issues that I knew of. It was all feeding off a UPS also if that makes any difference.

Edit: Forgot to include that it used a Geforce 3 originally and then went on to power a Geforce 4 ti4200.
 
It'll be fine, as long as its not some generic white box PSU from some company nobodys ever heard of before 🙂
 
I would have to disaree somewhat. I had a simmilar setup as mentioned by Bad_Dude with the exception of the Zip Drive. and I immediately encouterd some PSU related problems when Booting up or when the Hard Drive is in the process of spinning up for long periods, like long files extractions processes . I would think that with the setup you mentioned on a 300 WATT PSU you would be cutting it quite close.
 
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