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Easy question. AMD how many watts?

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topjchapman
Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2002 - 3:22 pm:   

Hey, I was just wondering if someone could tell me how many watts my atx power supply needs to be if i have a 1.4ghz amd athlon processor? I know its more than my current 250w but not sure if my 300w power suply will work? All help would be appreciated.
thanks
-Joe
ILoveMyAthlonXP
Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2002 - 11:57 am:   

I'm using a 1.6GHz AMD Athlon XP 1900+, and using a 300W power supply. 3 IDE drives, a FDD, and a handful of PCI cards. And GeForce3 of course. And 6 fans to cool it all. My PSU hasn't complained yet.

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