Power supply

[Bumboy]

What happens if you have not enough power to run everything in your computer?

 

[andalas]

Unstable system and frequent crashes.

 

[bevancoleman]

I would expect it would be unstable or reboot.

 

[Bumboy]

what should I get if im planning to get a 1.33 gig Athlon? and some other cr@p i cant remember

 

[bevancoleman]

An AMD aproved power supply, 300W+.

Enermax make some nice AMD aproved supplies

 

[andalas]

300w should be enough though
PC power and Cooling have solid power supply but expensive.
You could get enermax 431w for $88 at newegg and it can run amd 1.33
I use on my 1.4GHz

 

[Bumboy]

is there anything that would make a computer require more than that?

 

[andalas]

I don't know you might want to calculate you power need.
For most people 300w should be enough.

Except those Dual Athlon which require 460W
and only two power supply are amd approved.

You can check an article I think in pcworld about
typical internal pc components' power consumption

 

[Jiggz]

Maybe just to give you an idea I use a Premier PSU 300W and this is what I have on my rig:

TB 1.33Ghz
Abit KT7E
GF2 MX
256Mb Ram
(2) 20 GB HDD
Floppy Drive
12X DVD Drive
72X CD-Rom
12/10/32A CD Writer
IDE 250Zip drive
PCI128 SB Card
ISA Modem
SCSI Card 2906
SCSI Scanner
SCSI Zip100
USB Netcam
Ultra 66 controller
1-100mm Case Fan
1-90mm Case Fan
3-80mm Case Fan
1 HDD Cooler Fan
1 60mm HSF
1 Laser Printer
1 Ink Jet Printer

And my rig is stable as a rock.

 

[Scouzer]

There's an uneeded craze about the wattage you need right now, why is it I have no idea, but I know my next upgrade will only have a 300watter and it's going to be loaded. Jiggz has a damn fine example of you not needing tons of wattage.