Old PC power supply advice...

ShaolinDrunkard · Post by **ShaolinDrunkard** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:01 am

I'm looking to make a small pc just for running some emulators, if i used say a 2.4ghz celeron, a 64mb video card, one cd-rom drive and a small hard drive, do you think a 200 watt power supply would be sufficient? I figure a 64mb video card is old technology so it probably doesnt use near as much power as the cards of today.

Thanks ahead of time.

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:27 am

here's a calculator

cowsgoquack101 · Post by **cowsgoquack101** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:42 am

Dangit daguuy you beat me to it. But it's pretty accurate...use it.

he he 7 posts to go to 500

Zhooibaal · Post by **Zhooibaal** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:30 am

For me it came out on 360W... not that accurate I guess, I'm using a 350W PSU

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:27 pm

Zhooibaal wrote:For me it came out on 360W... not that accurate I guess, I'm using a 350W PSU

I would seriously think of replacing the powersupply with a beefier one then. I've previously run a system with a lower than the recommended specs, and while it worked for over a year, it eventually blew the the PS, and took the video card and DVD drive with it, and caused problems with one of the HDs. That was not very fun.

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:41 pm

yay! I have about 200 watts of overkill!

(need 300, have 500)

Post by **bicostp** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:00 pm

400 watts! Woo!

All I'm running is an old 56x CD-ROM drive (soon DVD+-RW wwhen I order it), a hard drive, ATI Radeon 9200 128mb graphics card, 3 gig Celeron D, and an MSI Vpower mobo. (I'm not sure what it draws.) As long as it can safely run a 4.8 watt fan along with the hardware, I'm good.

ShaolinDrunkard · Post by **ShaolinDrunkard** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:43 pm

Thanks everybody.

Post by **Gamelver** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:06 pm

SpongeBuell wrote:yay! I have about 200 watts of overkill! (need 300, have 500)

500! damn

...that IS a quite a bit of overkill

!!!

NiN^_^NiN · Post by **NiN^_^NiN** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:14 am

Damn and my pc only has a 60watts psu lol GO MINI ITX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **Skyone** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:38 am

Zhooibaal wrote:For me it came out on 360W... not that accurate I guess, I'm using a 350W PSU

Well you're getting lucky.