Advice needed on Basic Computer - Will a 250W PSU cope?

[jwhalley]

Hi Guys,

My uncles computer died recently, and was planning on put it back together with bits and pieces from various old computers. The rough spec would be:-

Asus p4c800e-deluxe
p4c 2.4
2gig ram
100mb hard drive
A very basic and cheap AGP gfx like the 6200 (which i'll have to buy)

the only problem is the only hard drive I have lieing around would be a 250W one which came from a very old Tiny computer.

Before I spend any cash on getting a gfx card, do you think the PSU would be able to handle it?

Cheers

 

[Adsta]

mmmm I'm going to say no.

250W is not really a lot. But then again i could wrong. Depends on the wattage your cpu requires gpu requires hdd etc etc. it all adds up.

Most modern cpu's want at least 125W some are around 90-95W which are not too bad but thats still quite a large chuck out of your 250W.
Other factors are make of the psu etc...

hope this as been of some help..... then again it might just be ramblings who knows ?!?!

 

[p4radox]

Yeah I reckon that would work.

I ran an overclocked Opteron and X850XT on an Antec 300W PSU without a problem for a year or so. If it's a really cheapo PSU you might have problems though.

Just give it a shot, if it doesn't work then grab hold of a cheap Antec/Tagan/decent make ~300W PSU.

 

[errata]

Check that old psu is ATX and has All the connections needed for the motherboard

some boards require the main connection and auxillary pins

on others auxillary power is optional or does not exist

theres a fair chance it will work but not if the agp card takes much pwoer or the supply is low quality