How much power is needed for Geforce + Athlon?

[Salmoneus]

I have a Geforce DDR card and an Athlon coming soon. I am a little worried about my 250W power supply. Will that be enough?

ASUS V6800 Geforce DDR
ASUS K7V Mainboard
Athlon 700 CPU
2x64MB + 1x128MB RAM
2 harddrives (9,1 & 18GB)

[BladeRunner]

The best thing to do is "suck it and see" It won't cost anything that way if it works ok. Check out the FAQ to see if any problems you get appear to indicate the PSU as the Geforce can have issues with various Athlon mobos.

http://go.to/geforcefaq

[Ceint]

...Your Geforce should work fine with the K7v, many benchmarks have been done using the k7v and Athlon, however, you should opt for the 300wps

[Salmoneus]

I installed the beast last night, and NO PROBLEMS SO FAR with 250W!!!!

And Unreal Tournament runs as a dream compared to crap-o-celeron. I'm impressed!

Intel go home!

[indinaveer]

Good question. I was shopping for an athlon last night, and a couple of places specified that you needed a 300 W power supply to use this processor. I'll be interested to see how you fare.

[Dimarini]

AMD suggests a 250W minimum power supply, I feel much safer with a 300W.


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Mike
http://www.monster-machines.com

[Moraelin]

In case you've missed my post in the CPU forum, I'm running a .25 micron AMD 650@750 on an old 200W power supply. No problems so far. (Had a 250W AMD-certified one, but it died. That's why )

I don't have a GeForce, tho, so I have no idea if that one will work in a similar configuration.

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Moraelin -- the proud member of the Idiots' Guild