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300 Watts Powersupply for Athlon64 + Radeon 9800Pro?
I'm building a gaming computer with the following parts:
Athlon 64 3000+ CPU Socket 754 Motherboard ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card 1 GB DDR RAM 80 GB Hard Drive DVD/CDROM Drive Audigy 2 ZS plus the CPU fan, motherboard fan, the the fan for the power supply. I already own a computer case with a *generic* 300W power supply. When I upgrade my PC with the parts I listed above, will the 300-Watt power supply suffice? Or would that be a very bad idea? The saleslady at the PC store I visited insisted that I'll need a 350-Watt power supply to go with all the other things I bought. I told her I already had a 300-Watt power supply at home. |
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"Opticreep" wrote in message om... I'm building a gaming computer with the following parts: Athlon 64 3000+ CPU Socket 754 Motherboard ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card 1 GB DDR RAM 80 GB Hard Drive DVD/CDROM Drive Audigy 2 ZS plus the CPU fan, motherboard fan, the the fan for the power supply. I already own a computer case with a *generic* 300W power supply. When I upgrade my PC with the parts I listed above, will the 300-Watt power supply suffice? Or would that be a very bad idea? The saleslady at the PC store I visited insisted that I'll need a 350-Watt power supply to go with all the other things I bought. I told her I already had a 300-Watt power supply at home. A word of warning - the last time I pushed my luck with a generic 300W PSU, when it eventually did break down it destroyed the motherboard in the process! Given that you're bound to eventually upgrade past the capacity of your current supply at some point in the future, and that a reasonable 350-400w psu is cheaper than most new motherboards, I'd upgrade now and not take the risk. Tom |
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Opticreep wrote:
I'm building a gaming computer with the following parts: Athlon 64 3000+ CPU Socket 754 Motherboard ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card 1 GB DDR RAM 80 GB Hard Drive DVD/CDROM Drive Audigy 2 ZS plus the CPU fan, motherboard fan, the the fan for the power supply. I already own a computer case with a *generic* 300W power supply. When I upgrade my PC with the parts I listed above, will the 300-Watt power supply suffice? Or would that be a very bad idea? The saleslady at the PC store I visited insisted that I'll need a 350-Watt power supply to go with all the other things I bought. I told her I already had a 300-Watt power supply at home. NEVER trust the advice of a salesman! They are paid to sell, so always make independent enquiries! She may however be right, but the only way to find out is to try it with the 300w PSU and replace it if need be. -- Remove ".invalid" and replace with ".co.uk" to reply |
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"Mr. Slow" wrote in message
... Opticreep wrote: NEVER trust the advice of a salesman! They are paid to sell, so always make independent enquiries! She may however be right, but the only way to find out is to try it with the 300w PSU and replace it if need be. And risk that if it gets burned, it goes with a bigger bang? |
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Mr. Slow wrote:
Opticreep wrote: I'm building a gaming computer with the following parts: Athlon 64 3000+ CPU Socket 754 Motherboard ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card 1 GB DDR RAM 80 GB Hard Drive DVD/CDROM Drive Audigy 2 ZS plus the CPU fan, motherboard fan, the the fan for the power supply. I already own a computer case with a *generic* 300W power supply. When I upgrade my PC with the parts I listed above, will the 300-Watt power supply suffice? Or would that be a very bad idea? The saleslady at the PC store I visited insisted that I'll need a 350-Watt power supply to go with all the other things I bought. I told her I already had a 300-Watt power supply at home. NEVER trust the advice of a salesman! They are paid to sell, so always make independent enquiries! She may however be right, but the only way to find out is to try it with the 300w PSU and replace it if need be. *sigh* I'd like to make a comment about how crap your advice is, but I'm just too apathetic right now. **** off though, will you? -- spammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo |
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Toshi1873 looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say: In article , says... NEVER trust the advice of a salesman! They are paid to sell, so always make independent enquiries! She may however be right, but the only way to find out is to try it with the 300w PSU and replace it if need be. As opposed to asking complete strangers here on USENET? (j/k... kinda) The difference is that random strangers on Usenet aren't getting a commission for convincing you that you need product X, the salesperson is/might be. Salespeople can and do lie to sell products, for the simple reason that they don't make any money if they don't sell things. That's the big downside of having salespeople on commission only. Xocyll -- I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably, Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr |
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Salespeople can and do lie to sell products, for the simple reason that they don't make any money if they don't sell things. My favourite lately is when they try to sell you expensive precision-machined cables and conenctors for digital TV/radio receivers, when half the point of digital receivers is you don't need such a great signal for them to work properly. |
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