Is 150W PSU enough for Celeron II 800

[Philip]

Is a 150W power supply good enough for a Celeron II 800?

I just sticked the CPU into a system (a slim case one) with the above PSU but the unit heated up like crazy, especially the area around where the PSU is seating.

This system used to run by a 450Mhz PPGA Celeron and had no no heat issue before.

Will 200W do the job?

Rgds,
Philip

[PLtNmHeLiX]

depends on what else you have in there

[Philip]

Besides the CPU the followings are there:

Radeon 32SDR PCI
Seagate 66UDMA 8G HD
HITACHI 8x CDROM
NEC 1.44MB floppy drive

Will the Radeon consume as much power as the CPU?

[BaldHeadedDork]

A 200W PSU would probably get the job done, the majors sold billions of boxes like yours with 200W PSU's. But you should also make sure the problem isn't inadequate cooling in the slimline case.


BHD

[FTC]

Hi,

Definetly with that hw a 150w PSU (a quality one) will suffice. At one time I was running :

P3 800EB @ 840 (later could run Celly Tually @ 1.2Ghz also)
20 Gb HD 7200
256 Mb Mem
Geforce2 MX overclocked to 210/213
1 CDRW (8x)
1 CDR/DVD (32x)
1 Conexant WinModem
1 NIC card
Floppy
... plus a couple passive USB devices

just with a 145W PSU, no problems. (although after this I had to swap to a 300w PSU to keep up improving/adding things up to my current system)

Regards
FTC

[Penguin4x4]

GeForce 2 Ti, Celly Tually 1GHz, NIC, 48x CD-ROM, 6GB ATA-66 and 2.5GB ATA-66 hard drives, 12x CD-ROM, and 1.44 Floppy on 145W.

[AmigoThree]

I know someone who runs a system about the same as the one Penguin mentioned on a 120Watt (his video card wasnt as good) and it ran fine.

[Gerst240]

i run my p2 off a 70 watter if thats any help :) as long as you dont have much stuff you will be fine

[jreinsma]

I have done it with a 500 mhz celeron and a 810 board. I had to replace the hard drive bc it drew too much power. I also tried a bx board and an tnt2 card but it drew too much power. I just have to say that older hard drives cdroms tend to draw a little more power than the current ones do

[Avatar28]

I can tell you that Dell has sold systems with 1 GHz+ coppermine P3s with a 145 watt PSU and they worked fine. So yes, that should work well. The Celery only uses like 35 watts of power.