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    is this power supply good enough? (specs inside)

    I have an old Compaq power supply, I think its only a 145 watt. I was wondering if it would be powerful enough to power these parts and these parts ONLY.

    Gigabyte GA-7DX+ motherboard
    AMD 2000+
    512 DDR RAM (2100)
    A really old 15 gig, 5400 RPM drive
    Geforce 4 Ti4600 (it doesnt have its own power connector, thank god)
    an ethernet lan card
    a CD ROM drive (not a burner)
    and im just using the onboard mobo sound chipset
    no fans are installed in the case.

    Is 145 watts gonna be able to handle all of this, or am I way off. Sorry I dont know how to accurately gauge these things, will i damage anything If I try to use this power supply?

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    As long as it is up to "specs" and working well, NO, you won't damage anything. You actually have "minimal" power demands. It's not all about "wattage" , but IT IS about quality of components! At least, in most cases. And I do mean cases. There are many older small form factor cases with smaller PSU's that truly do do the job just fine. Substitute a large case with a "crap" bigger PSU and you can have nothing but problems.
    Yeah, sad, but true!
    As it is, if you are running your PC right now off that PSU with no problems, then you are fine. If you do have problems, upgrade it. But, unless the PSU is bad, you will not damage anyything.

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    No case fans? I think you will need at least one.
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    My Ti4600 produces alot of heat, youre gonna need a more powerful psu for sure, they arent too expensive, get yourself a 250-300 watt psu. And definately get yourself a fan for the front and back of the case.

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    I'd like to point out something that may be worth reading coolman:
    Posted by Ruslan in another thread:
    Quote Originally Posted by Ruslan
    By the way, HP uses the same PSUs as yours (just only 200wt) in their fully loaded multi-media systems like m200y, m300y, m260n, m270n
    Specs are :
    1. P4-2,8 up to 3.2 HT, 800Mhz,
    2. 512Mb/1Gb DDR3200
    3. DVD+RW
    4. DVD-ROM or CDROM
    5. HDD 120-250GB
    6. Internal USB Card-reader
    7. FDD
    8. SB Audigy/Audigy2
    9. TV-Tuner
    10. GeForce FX5200 -128m /or Radeon 9200
    11. PCI modem card.
    12. Extra case fan.
    13. ASUS Micro-ATX motherboard (usually P4SD-LA, 800Mhz FSB)...
    Enough? - no empty slots!

    The same PSUs are used also in m376n, pc854n, pc864n, pc884n and so on multimedia systems... And you can imagine, everything is working fine...
    So, it is rather myth what you need much more powerful "400Wt and up" PSU...
    Most of those cheap "350Wt", "400Wt, "450Wt" PSUs are in fact just only remarked 200Wt models! The same components inside, just only sticker outside is different!
    They cannot be compared by quality with PSUs what you already have!
    I'm not saying about actually decent PSUs - they itself cost much more than cheap cases together with s....ty PSU...
    Even new P4-3,2 /AMD 3400+ models are using just only 250Wt PSUs - it's a fact!
    Of course you are talking about a 145 watt psu, and you would do much better by upgrading to a good name brand PSU.
    BTW, the whole thread is here:
    http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=60952

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