power supply question

[praz87]

is a 300 watt power supply enough to power an ecs k7s5a motherboard with an amd athlon xp 2000 cpu

[BipolarBill]

Yes...if you have only a few peripherals. Two HDD, 2 CDROMS and 4 PCI cards would put you over the top. USB would strain it even more. I recommend 400W.

[razorback]

I currently have a 300w on an athlon 1.4ghz, and with 1 4000RPM ATA/33 HDD, 1 cd-rw, zip drive, floppy, gf2mx400 pci card, lucent winmodem PCI, and onboard sound, its very close to not being able to supply adequate power to some parts. for example, if i plug in another fan i have, the modem takes a performance hit due to power strain. I will be getting at least a 350w and i recommend doing the same for expansion purposes.

[RamonGTP]

I had a 300w PSU running:

XP 1700+
GF2MX400 64MB AGP Card
2 7200 RPM Hard Drives
DVD Drive
CDRW Drive
All PCI Slots were full
And about 6 fans

I had no problems at all with that setup, I did upgrade to an enermax EG365P-VE PSU, but only becuase I wanted a PSU with dual fans for some extra cooling. So it really depends on the quality of the PSU.

-Ramon

[Rugor]

I would have to recommend a 400w PSU. Also make sure it's AMD certified.

That's what I have on my 1800+ XP