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Question

Would the following spec be supported by a 220w power supply?

Intel pentium 4 3.00ghz
Micro Atx mother board
1gb DDR2 533MHz ram
CD/DVD rom player
80gb hard drive
256mb windows areo capable graphics card

Thank you very much!!!!!!!

Answer 1

I didn't know they still had those around. But to answer your question, I THINK, the actual connector for the motherboard is different. The MoBo you are using will have two power connectors, a square 4 pin and a larger 24 pin I think. The old power supplies only have one connection. Anyhow, you are only running two peripherals and don't need much power, you can pick up a 350 or a 450 for around 50 bucks at most electronics stores.

Answer 2

The specs you have provided are not sufficient to calculate the wattage needed.

A 3.0Ghz prescott P4 usually takes more power than a 3.0Ghz Northwood P4.
They are usually differentiated by P4e and P4c.

the amount of Ram doesnt usually matter. What matters is the number of sticks. Do you have 1 stick of 1gb DDR2 or 2x512mb DDR2.

And is the HDD 5400RPM 80Gb or 7200RPM?
SATA or IDE?

and the graphics card varies from chip to chip.
ATI cards usually consume less power than nVidia cards.

and as you go higher with the chips they consume more power. like an ATI Radeon x600 wud consume around 18 more watts than the older Radeon 9600.

In my opinion a 220 watt PSU might be able to hold the load, assuming u hav a northwood proc, 1 stick of ram, 5400rpm hdd, generic cd drive, and a decent mid-range graphics card from ATI, with no extra PCI cards or USB devices.

but it wud start heatin up and shuttin down the system or blowin a fuse on full load.

Prevention is always better than a fried motherboard! : )

Answer 3

It depends on the video card. The CPU, memory, and motherboard will use about 120 watts peak. The drives will use about 10 watts when active. A video card can use anywhere from 30 watts to 180 watts (most use under 100 watts). An x1800 will use 60 watts. An x1900GT will use 75 watts. An X1900XT will use up to 100 watts. Nvidia is similar in power consumption.

Just do the math. If you have an X1800 or less or a 7800GT or less, then you are barely fine (assuming you are not using your drives a lot).

Answer 4

sure this is going to. the only factor that MIGHTcause you problems may be a severe-end portraits card; say a Radeon 1650/1900/1950, or an NVidia 7300 or above. because it rather is, you probably did no longer say, yet out of your question, working a million HDD, a million DVD/CDchronic and any regular video card, even a severe end card, will artwork fantastic with 3 hundred watts. Douglas D MCP, MCDST, HDA, CSS (i think that could desire to qualify as a working laptop or laptop professional) playstation - i'm working an AMD Athlon sixty 4 3800+, 2 DVD/CD burners, 2 puzzling drives, a resourceful X-fi Extrememusic sound card, NVidia 6800/256mb, a million.5 gb RAM, all with a 400w ability supply-i think of you would be fantastic.

Answer 5

To be honest I would invest in at least a 400watt switching power supply from a quality manuifacturer such as Enermax or thermal take. This would be more than happy runnning your machine at full speed. Remember that those fans that cool down your machie need roughly 12watts each.

Answer 6

Definately not. I had a packard bell pc who are reknowned for only giving you the basic stuff, it had a lower spec than yours, celeron 2.2, 512mn ram, 80 gig hard drive, 128mb onboard graphics.

The power supply unit was 250 watts and lasted 3 years.

I fond out afterwards that my upgraded hard drive, ram, firewire card, usb2 card didn't help. I would go with something bigger or ask your local pc shop who build computers what they would recommend.

Answer 7

First of all i am sorry to say that your unit specification is wrong you wrote 220w ie 220 Watts for 220V ie volts.
Your answer. each and every computer's SMPS(single mode power supply) can be adjusted to 110V or 220V. this can be procured by shifting a slider at the back of the computer cabinet.
After all, When 220V is give as supply to SMPS its stepped down 12 volts for motherboard usage and further its stepdown by the mother board by 5 and 3 volts.

Answer 8

no it would not. However when I build pcs I never go less than the 450v so that it enables me to upgrade the pc at a later stage not having to worry about the volts inside. Its not that expensive anyway. Never make a pc trying to save cause it will crash, make a solid one and it will be around.

Answer 9

I don't know really, but I would NOT recommend it unless you realy had to.