IS a Strong Power Supply Recomended For O/C!!!

[sejo5]

Hey i Have a 250 watt pwr supply and i cant O/C my 800 Duron on My shuttle Ak11 Mobo do i need A new Power Supply cause i have done the pencil trick and i have a good heatsink is there any other possible ways that i cant boot when i try to o/C if soo please give Details thanx:)

[AllGamer]

Welcome to SysOpt!

Wow!, yes for a 250w you'll DEFINITELY need at least a 300w to start doing any decent OC else you'll get a lot of system freezes and hang due not enough power

get something around the 350w+ if possible :t

[sejo5]

Thanx Man i KNew i needed a Stronger power supply Is there anything i should worry about? but does the 250 pwr supply keep the duron from booting up 2 windows cause it dont beep until i reset cmos?

[Bigjakkstaffa]

IS a Strong Power Supply Recomended For O/C!!!

Every little bit more wattage helps... go for a 400W and be nice and comfortbale for adding extra HDD's, FANs, CDROm's and whatnot too at a later date :)

--Jakk:t

[AllGamer]

So you are saying during a Re-boot it doesn't reboot fully, until you Press the Resett button?

if that's so it does sound like either a Timing Issue due OC or due not enough PSU power

:t:p

[RamonGTP]

It may or may not help in your situation, it also depends on your other components, particularily video card becuase the newer onces are pretty power hungry.

-Ramon

[Alex Iannuzzi]

I'm getting a GF4 Ti4200 and putting it in my case which has a 250 Watt Power Supply and I am running a Duron 1.2 Ghz with the CPU Fan, hard drive, Cd-rom, floppy drive, etc and I have 3 fans running in the computer.

Will my power supply be able to support the GF4 Ti4200?

If I upgrade to an XP 1800 should I get a new power supply?

Thanks,

Alex.

[absalom]

The minimum that AMD recommends for xp line of cpu is a 300 watt supply your best bet is a 350watt or 400watt should serve your needs,350watt would be fine.Buy Name brand stay away from generic.

[gibsinep]

Alex Iannuzzi- If you get an Xp you better get a new PS. It is the safe thing to do.

[absalom]

AMD spec sheets here http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/26003.pdf

[Alex Iannuzzi]

Originally posted by gibsinep
Alex Iannuzzi- If you get an Xp you better get a new PS. It is the safe thing to do.

Would I need a new power supply if I get the GF4 Ti4200??????

[omega31]

To be on the safe side, yes.

[Alex Iannuzzi]

Originally posted by omega31
To be on the safe side, yes.

Well it's going to be too late because the package with the GF4 Ti4200 will be coming this week. I will have to hope for the best.

[morpheus kain]

Well if it starts crashing every time you try to use your CDRW and some other heavy usage it's probably a power issue.

[PiNkMaGGiT]

My advice is to never **** around with a power supply, this is where you can afford not to have to budget.

I mean, they're pretty much like one of the most inexpensive parts in your computer, but so so very important.

For my new box I'm getting a 450W Codegen with Dual fans just to be on the safe side, because you don't want to be starving any of your hardware.

PiNkMaGGiT :t

[morpheus kain]

^*Nod of agreement*^

[sejo5]

Hey Im in the Mood to get a new PSU of a 400 watt can u guys tell me some good namebrands or should i go with a generic brand?? if u got any good psu Brands please list them thanx !!!!:)
And thanx GUys for posting ur thoughts and oppinions it was very helpful!!:t

[morpheus kain]

No generic. Sparkle, and Enermax are the two brands I trust most.

[omega31]

Antec is also good. More expensive would be PC Power & Cooling.

[jad1097]

The only reason you may need more than a 250watt PSU for a Duron 800 is if you have a gforce2 or better AGP card and a case loaded down with stuff. They are power hungry but unless you have problems then don't worry about it.


An Antec 250watt PSU has pushed my Duron 700@933 for a couple years now even with a gf2 now with no problems. 250 watts pushing 2 92mm fans, 1 80mm, fop-38 hs/fan, 2 hdds, 1 burner, 1 cdrom, floppy, 3 pci cards and a GF2. Needing a 300watt PSU is more myth than anything else. I even pulled a 300watt PSU out of another box to see if I could get more out of this thing because someone suggested it. It did not change a thing.


Where is your 800 topping out at? About 1GHz?

[mondayz]

In this hopscotch of technology the power supply definitely needs to jump forward.
All of us learn this the hard way I guess

[b_shill]

i have a 350 watt generic power suply and i havent had any problems with my comp

it pushes a xp2000+ to 1.85GHZ(a lil over 2200+)
about 14 case fans including my hard drive coolers and heat sink/video card
2x cc lights
a geforce2
2x Cd-rw's
dvd-rom
digidoc5
and 2x Maxtor 80gig 7200rpm hd
and 2x Western digital 20gig 5400rpm hd
and 1x western digital 4.7gig 5400rpm hd (moded with a window)

i guess im juss lucky but i dont see the need for a bigger ps as of yet.

:r
heh