abt power supply

[amateur]

how do i know what rating of the
power supply is enough for my system?
i m talking abt "watts" here. pls
enlighten me. thks !

[YODA74]

This might help you a little
http://www.fairchildsemi.com/ms/MS/MS-540.pdf
http://www.national.com/apnotes/Others__v19.html
http://www.e-d-i.com/products_protection.html

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[Fruss Tray Ted]

Ths 2,

PSU: What you need
AGP video card - 20-30W
PCI video card - 20W
AMD Athlon 900MHz-1.1GHz - 50W
AMD Athlon 1.2MHz-1.4GHz - 55-65W
Intel Pentium III 800MHz-1.26GHz - 30W
Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz-1.7GHz - 65W
Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz-2.0GHz - 75W
Intel Celeron 700MHz-900MHz - 25W
Intel Celeron 1.0GHz-1.1GHz - 35W
ATX Motherboard - 30W-40W
128MB RAM - 10W
256MB RAM - 20W
12X or higher IDE CD-RW Drive - 25W
32X or higher IDE CD-ROM Drive - 20W
10x or higher IDE DVD-ROM Drive - 20W
SCSI CD-RW Drive - 17W
SCSI CD-ROM Drive - 12W
5400RPM IDE Hard Drive - 10W
7200RPM IDE Hard Drive - 13W
7200RPM SCSI Hard Drive - 24W
10000RPM SCSI Hard Drive - 30W
Floppy Drive - 5W
Network Card - 4W
Modem - 5W
Sound Card - 5W
SCSI Controller Card - 20W
Firewire/USB Controller Card - 10W
Case Fan - 3W
CPU Fan - 3W

BTW, the abbreviations are annoying. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif

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[amateur]

Do u think 200W power supply is ok for
my configuration:

Gigabyte 7VKML(on-board sound,video,LAN)(microATX)
Duron 1.2GHz
256 MB DDR PC-2100 266MHz (1 stick)
1 HD (7200rpm)
1 FDD
1 CD-ROM

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[Fruss Tray Ted]

It will handle what you currently have but if you add 2 items say a DVD/CD-RW and a better video card you've gone over the edge and may experience freeze ups or other associated problems.

[saphalline]

Just for laughs, my old P166MMX system - 48MB RAM, 2.1GB HDD (probably 4500rpm or lower), FDD, 52X CD-ROM (now moved to newer PC), onboard sound & 1MB vid, 56K modem - has a 75W power supply! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/eek.gif Cripes, if anything else were added, that thing would crash! Well, I mean more than Win95 that was on it. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif Good thing it's retired now!

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[amateur]

i have a microATX casing, i wish to replace the power supply wif a higher rating one, but i couldn't seem to find a power supply small enough to fit into a microATX casing. Is there one ? :(