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With a loud pop and a puff of smoke my 300 W ATX power supply died last night and I find myself looking to quickly buy a new one. I was wondering if I should replace it with a higher power one. I ran this one for 3 year with most of this hardware without any noticeable problems. Rather than taking the time to total the individual wattages of my hardware (and trying to figure out the power consumption of my cards), I thought I would turn to my fellow geeks.
Just for reference (in more detail than is probably necessary), I am running:
Msi k7 pro 2 motherboard
AMD Atholon 1900+ processor
Thermaltake K6 CPU fan
3 80mm fans (not including the one in the power supply)
3 40mm(?) bay fans
2 optical drives
1 hard dive
1 zip drive
1 floppy drive
And
Gforce 3 video card
Lan card
WLan card
Firewire card(3port)
Sound card
Wireless mouse (USB)
When it blew I wasn’t running anything extra. It blew about 1 minute after booting to windows after restarting. I normally leave it running all the time.
I’m sure that is much more info than is needed but, I feel proud of my once high performance PC.
I would appreciate any advice any of you have. I will probably buy a higher wattage supply just because they aren’t much more expensive.
Thanks
Just for reference (in more detail than is probably necessary), I am running:
Msi k7 pro 2 motherboard
AMD Atholon 1900+ processor
Thermaltake K6 CPU fan
3 80mm fans (not including the one in the power supply)
3 40mm(?) bay fans
2 optical drives
1 hard dive
1 zip drive
1 floppy drive
And
Gforce 3 video card
Lan card
WLan card
Firewire card(3port)
Sound card
Wireless mouse (USB)
When it blew I wasn’t running anything extra. It blew about 1 minute after booting to windows after restarting. I normally leave it running all the time.
I’m sure that is much more info than is needed but, I feel proud of my once high performance PC.
I would appreciate any advice any of you have. I will probably buy a higher wattage supply just because they aren’t much more expensive.
Thanks