PSU Issues?

Slack Space 1613 This topic was started by pmistry, 2002-07-05 18:41

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2002-07-05 20:41

I just installed a new Western Digital 80GB 7200 RPM disk along with a Radeon 8500 LE, the components work fine, but I am wondering if I need a bigger Power Supply. I currently have 250-watts. Before I was running only a 20GB 7200 RPM Maxtor along with a GF2MX. I know the GF2MX wasn't very power hungry but with a Radeon now, I may need more juice. The computer seems stable, but I have had the odd IE window crash, and sometimes the computer stops responding while in Windows or takes a long pause before going on to another operation. Any thoughts on this?

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Brian Frank

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2002-07-05 21:35

What hardware are you running this on?

pmistry

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2002-07-06 02:13

AMD Athlon, Asus K7V
512 MB PC133 RAM
Western Digital 80GB 7200 RPM
LG 52X IDE CD
LG 32x/10x/40x IDE CDRW
ATI Radeon 8500 LE
USB Joystick, USB Lan
Realtek 10/100 LAN
SB Live
PS/2 Keyboard, Serial Mouse
Floppy Disk drive
Windows XP Pro, Windows 2000

The computer seems to be running just fine now, no lockups or anything. I just installed a case fan, and need to get a USB mouse too. Does anyone know how much power USB devices take? As it is though, I still feel 250 is kinda small, I'll be adding in a 20GB 7200 RPM Maxtor HDD in later as well.