200 watt PSU good enough for Tualain?

[mikyseee]

I was just wonder if a 200watt psu would be good enough to run a tualatin system.

 

[funnyperson1]

if you didnt want to overclock yes....

 

[zervun]

Should be fine unless you are like me and running 13,756 drives and addons that all require lots o' volts with your setup. If you got the standard cdrom, diskdrive, 1 harddrive, 2 fans you should be fine.

 

[JaY_III]

i would say NO
even for a Tualain running at stock....
if you onlt have 1 HDD and a CD-ROM you may be able to get by...
But dont plan on running any good 3D card in that system.

running a 200watt PSU is really asking for trouble

 

[ShiFtY2001]

I am running a cele [email protected], 2 seagate bara IV hdds, cdr, dvd, 2 fans, geforce2 ti and tnt2m64 on a 235W generic supply. It runs fine. If you dont have enough power you will know about it. I dont think you need a 300W supply unless you run AMD's... A good quality 200W supply should be fine.

 

[ol' man]

I am running a cele [email protected], 2 seagate bara IV hdds, cdr, dvd, 2 fans, geforce2 ti and tnt2m64 on a 235W generic supply. It runs fine. If you dont have enough power you will know about it. I dont think you need a 300W supply unless you run AMD's... A good quality 200W supply should be fine.

Run it and see. SOmetimes they work and sometimes they don't. I had a 250w that didn't work.

 

[JaY_III]

i had problems running a 250W with a Celeron 633 @ 950....
but then again i had 3 HDD's, CD-R, DVD, and only the overclocking gods know how many fans.......
So i started running Dual PSU's, and it was good

 

[deez]

A good quality 300W PSU should be your minimum especially if you have several drives, AGP card, extra fans etc..

 

[JaY_III]

A good quality 300W PSU should be your minimum especially if you have several drives, AGP card, extra fans etc..

I STRONGLY second that. (running a 350 myself)

 

[TASOS]

It all depends on the PSU specs...and quality
But even so...you will be running on the edge with
that 200W PSU.
Just keep your devices to the basic ones (min)

 

[mikyseee]

This will only run 1 cdrom, 1 floppy, 1 hdd, pos video card and sound card and a nic. I'm only planning on overclock to as far as I can get with default voltage. There will be one case fan and a stock hsf.

The psu is from a dell. So should that be a decent quality psu?

 

[zervun]

You should be fine, but you are cutting it close.

 

[JaY_III]

The psu is from a dell. So should that be a decent quality psu?

And built by the LOWEST BIDDER
200W will/should work.
BUT NOT RECOMENDED.....
have I mentioned yet its asking for trouble?