[Rictor]

...so, I probably should run my AMD 64 on a 250w power supply, eh?

damn, thats one more part I need to buy.

[Thorn]

My general rule is 350 minimum. Anything below that is gonna be trouble.

[Kosh]

200W?!?!?!
How the **** have you been keeping that thing going?

With a cheap Allied 350 watt power supply.

Keep in mind that most of it is actually pretty old (3 years). It's a 1.7 GHz Celeron, 256 MB of memory, Radeon 9100 video card, and some other basic stuff. Doesn't even have a DVD or DCRW drive. It can still run what I want it to, and I don't have the money to funnel into a major core upgrade.

[Thorn]

I was talking to WMC

[MicroPsycho]

According to that calculator I need only 259 watts but my 350W PSU died after one year (2 months ago) and I went out and bought a 650W Okia ATX PSU for about $50 cdn. It's powerful and quiet and it comes in colours! (mine's gold).

[WMCoolmon]

I haven't done much, really; aside from tweaking the hell out of Windows 2000 to disable extraneous services and enabling Cool 'N Quiet in the BIOS, I don't think the comp is all that different from a normal setup.

[Rictor]

Originally posted by MicroPsycho
According to that calculator I need only 259 watts but my 350W PSU died after one year (2 months ago) and I went out and bought a 650W Okia ATX PSU for about $50 cdn. It's powerful and quiet and it comes in colours! (mine's gold).

650 watts?



What are you running like a nuclear power plant?

[Clave]

Mine is 650W, it's standard on G5s...

[beatspete]

Not sure what my beast runs on.  I'll have a look next time I hoover it.

Anyway, the PSU would need to power:
1.3 AMD duron
256MB DDR ram
30GB HDD
32MB Geforce II
DVD
CD-RW
1 x 120mm fan (12v)
1 x 90mm fan (12v)
1 x 90mm fan (9v)
2 x 50mm Hard disk fans
Blue CRT light
LED temperature read-out.

Like I said, its a beast.