How many watts is your power supply?

[Wedge]

I think mine is 250W. When do I need more? What do you have?

[Geoff]

450 mine, the more drives, hard or disc and fans you have the more you'll need.

Generally.

[Fox Mulder]

Mine is a Codegen 300W. If you have a Pentium 4 or an Athlon XP and many drives and a modern AGP videocard you should have at least a 300W PSU imho.

[dx]

I have a PC Power&Cooling Turbo-Cool 425W. This is plenty enough for me at this time.

As Geoff said, if you have lots of IDE (SCSI, Firewire, and/or USB 2.0) drives..... plus a few PCI cards, a few fans, and a modern processor and mobo, you will need "more power Scotty!"

Strange lockups, BSOD's, and crashes are a common symptom when you are running out of power. So if a stable system suddenly becomes unstable when you add a hard drive, card, or fan, chances are it's the PSU running out of power.

[Duracell]

350W Enermax

Greetings from
Duracell

[Master]

400 Watt 2hd´s (raid) 4 cd/dvd drives

[daveml]

Dont run your monitor from your PC power supply.
That will fee up a lot of "watts".

[Master]

Originally posted by daveml
Dont run your monitor from your PC power supply.
That will fee up a lot of "watts".

that´s wrong cause there is a direct link in the psu !!!

Sorry daveml

[daveml]

agreed.
But single mains supplies are better. And safer.

[X-BoNeS-X]

350 w here .. for New Box .. AMD 2000+

[FortiTude]

hm 300 is enough for me and my old athlon classic 700
forti

[scarecrow]

If you use your computer for current hungry components as expensive audio cards or video capture ones, then you should really use a HUGE dedicated and specially trimmed PSU, which sometimes can cost up to $350, or even more.
For normal jobs a typical 350W cheapo taiwanese PSU (35-50 $) is enough.

[Wedge]

Here's what I'm looking at: Codegen 350W ATX P4 AMD Recommended Switching Power Supply, OEM Package or Linkworld 400W Pentium 4 ATX Power Supply, 4-Connector, OEM Package

What do you think?
I have a P4 1.3GHz
386MB RDRAM
40GB IBM HDD
80GH WD HDD
64MB GeForce2 GTS Ultra
2 Optical Drives
1 fan, soon adding another
SoundBlaster Live! sound card
2 NICs
Possibly adding an ATA Controller card in the future
Currently, only USB device connected are mouse and keyboard, a printer will follow
XP Home

[VIPER_1069]

300 watts here too

and have to agree with dave here that running the monitor even if it is a throughput socket is not ideal it DOES.. even if only small add extra load to your power supply and from most engineers i have asked about this it is recommended that you run it from its own socket pref an anti surge unit as with the computer its self as this reduces the risk of both monitor and system going down in the event of failure of either and does not spike the other if coupled together and a problem occours

@netman i respect ya bud and yer knowledge here bud but a good guess here is that you also plug your monitor separate also

[Geoff]

http://www.hiper-pc.com/static/home.html
for good quality nice quiet PSU

Have you had a look here Wedge?