1.4 athlon will it run good on a 300 watt psu?

[ruinz-]

Im running a 1.4athlon 400 watt psu my friend is running a 1.2 athlon 300 watt psu and his burner wont work on his he has a calibration laser error or something not sure i read that it can be caused cause of lack of power from psu... so he wants to borrow mine for a while if it wouldnt affect my performence im willing to do it :P and suggestions? Sorry if im a Noo b :)

[Tobes]

My 1.4 t-bird is running perfectly stable with the cheap and nasty 300W supply that came with the case (Omni, I think). The 5V rail is supposedly rated at 32A.

I'm only slightly overclocking at the moment but have tested at 1.5Ghz and this runs fine too.
However, the 5V rail does sag under load to about 4.7V.

Since I'm planning on adding an extra HD and trying higher o/cing I will be upgrading the PS soon.

[Microsoft]

no

[Blockbuster Joe]

My friends Abit KG-7, Tbird 1.4, 256MB DDR RAM, 40GB IDE HD (60GXP), 32X CD-ROM, Geforce 2, SB Live! system runs fine on a 300W PSU.

[zangler]

mine runs fine oc and with 2hds, and the works on an antec 300w. my 5vrail is at 4.8, i heard there is a mod for the antecs, with the pot, if you have information...let me know.

[foxmulder]

You should do fine with 300W as long as you don't have too many fans and other stuff packed in your rig

[SteenkyBastage]

my guess is it depends on the particular power supply, and what you have in the system.

i am currently running:
3x ata100 40gb HD's
2x CDrom/CD-R
2x 120mm fans
2x 80mm fans
2x chipset fans
1x digidoc
1x HD cooler
abit kt7a-raid MB
512MB ram
athlon 1.2 @ 1.47
SB live platinum w/ live drive
vodoo5
NIC
2940uw scsi controller
scsi zip
scsi jaz

this wont run on a 300w PSU (at least the two i have tried)
i had to split this up between two PSU's to get everything working. and even at that, my 5v drops to 4.8 sometimes.

in building a computer for work i determined a computer wasn't getting enough power (athlon 1.0) and brought in one of my spare 250w PSU's from home (thinkiing the one in it was a 250). after i swapped it out, the problem was solved, and when i went to look at the old PSU, it was a 300 watter. so... i said all that to say, it's probably dependant on the particular one you use.

ahhhh, the joys of 1 PSU coming up (in theory) as my 430 watt PSU should be here tomorrow.

[Jon]

2 X 7200RPM ATA100 RAID 0 drives
GF3
SBLive! X-Gamer
TBird 1.4 @ 1.6
Acer CDRW
52X CDROM
4 X 80mm fans
2CoolPC Turbo model
Delta Black Label on my SK-6
1.44 Floppy
100Mbps D-Link NIC


All on my AMD UNAPPROVED 300W PSU.

Works perfectly.