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Will 300 W PSU be anough for grahic cardThat depends: What other components are in your computer?
-- DaveW "Olav Rekve" <crownreg***@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:tS4Yd.634990$Xk.570184@pd7tw3no...Show quoteHide quote > Hey is a PSu on 300 W enough for a X700 or X800XL?? > Thanks in advance > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:36:57 GMT, "Olav Rekve"
<crownreg***@hotmail.com> wrote: >Hey is a PSu on 300 W enough for a X700 or X800XL?? What specific PSU and what other parts?>Thanks in advance > In general, no, the typical system in which one had those installed would need a higher capacity PSU unless it just happened to have a rail/amperage distribution that came near what the system needs. IOW, most systems don't use more than 300W but use more amperage from one rail than another so the wattage of the PSU simply accounts for the capacity enough on every rail to have the worst amperage draw on any of them, covered.
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"kony" <spam@spam.com> skrev i melding Crappy 915 chipsetnews:njp1311vq7foduclk85319lvh0epahu41p@4ax.com... > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:36:57 GMT, "Olav Rekve" > <crownreg***@hotmail.com> wrote: > >>Hey is a PSu on 300 W enough for a X700 or X800XL?? >>Thanks in advance >> > > > What specific PSU and what other parts? > In general, no, the typical system in which one had those > installed would need a higher capacity PSU unless it just > happened to have a rail/amperage distribution that came near > what the system needs. IOW, most systems don't use more > than 300W but use more amperage from one rail than another > so the wattage of the PSU simply accounts for the capacity > enough on every rail to have the worst amperage draw on any > of them, covered. I have a P4 3.4 ghz prescott 2 x 250 GB SATA with 8 MB Ram from WD 1 GB DDR 3200 RAM Gigabit Ethernet Win XP PRO the sucky Shared 900 graphic card that i was planning to swap out wi8th the X700 or X800XL "Olav Rekve" <crownreg***@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:KI5Yd.638006$6l.317372@pd7tw2no...Show quoteHide quote > You could always try it. But I'm guessing no.> "kony" <spam@spam.com> skrev i melding > news:njp1311vq7foduclk85319lvh0epahu41p@4ax.com... >> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:36:57 GMT, "Olav Rekve" >> <crownreg***@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>>Hey is a PSu on 300 W enough for a X700 or X800XL?? >>>Thanks in advance >>> >> >> >> What specific PSU and what other parts? >> In general, no, the typical system in which one had those >> installed would need a higher capacity PSU unless it just >> happened to have a rail/amperage distribution that came near >> what the system needs. IOW, most systems don't use more >> than 300W but use more amperage from one rail than another >> so the wattage of the PSU simply accounts for the capacity >> enough on every rail to have the worst amperage draw on any >> of them, covered. > > Crappy 915 chipset > I have a P4 3.4 ghz prescott > 2 x 250 GB SATA with 8 MB Ram from WD > 1 GB DDR 3200 RAM > Gigabit Ethernet > Win XP PRO > the sucky Shared 900 graphic card that i was planning to swap out wi8th > the X700 or X800XL > -- Derek 
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