you guys think my Sparkle 300w is enough for the following setup?

[hojl]

I haven;t built a system since my tbird 1gig.
you think my older sparkle 300w PSU is good enough for the following?

NF2 mobo
XP (2500+ to 2800+) range
1.5 gig DDR RAM
2X120 gig HD 2meg buffer
Diamond ViperII (old ass VID card)
floppy
CD-RW

 

[niwi7]

probably itll run ok but ur cutting it really really close w/ those 2 120 gigers and 1.5 ram....

 

[hojl]

cool thanks for the heads up...

 

[karmasalad]

That'll be more than enough. I'm running a P4 2.6C, 1GB DDR, 2 hd's, Radeon 9600, GameTheater XP, DVD/CDRW, floppy, and 2 case fans off of a 300-watt PSU.

The vast majority of systems can run fine on quality 300-watt PSUs. It's efficiency that matters, not just the big wattage number. From what I've read, Sparkles are a good brand of PSUs.

You'll be fine.

 

[mechBgon]

Danger danger, don't plug that old 3.3-volt Diamond into your new mobo! :Q Get yourself a 1.5-volt AGP card of some kind, here's one: AOpen GF4MX 440 for $41 + s/h

 

[pspada]

And get yourself a good power supply, I consider 350w to be the bare minimum.

 

[hojl]

doh! I didn't know there was a difference in the voltage of Vid cards..
Is the same thing true about PCI vid cards?
I have a radeon 7200? 7100? PCI card.. Does this have a different voltage too?

 

[render]

mechBgon just saved your MB and video card.

 

[pelikan]

Sparkle is high quality. It should be fine.