Depending on the mobo, the old p/s may not have the correct
connectors/voltages necessary for the new board.
Also, 250 watts may be a bit low. My minimum for multi-core machines is
500W
It the p/s is on the edge, the PC will spontaneously crash and try to
reboot. If under powered, it will not boot at all.
Tim Ellison, W4TME
Product Management, Sales & Support
FlexRadio Systems^(TM)
4616 W Howard Ln Ste 1-150
Austin, TX 78728
Phone: 512-535-4713 Ext. 223
Email: t...@flexradio.com <mailto:t...@flexradio.com>
Web: www.flexradio.com <http://www.flexradio.com>
logo
On 12/20/2011 9:34 AM, Bill wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Tim Ellison, W4TME<t...@flex-radio.com> wrote:
Neal just told me...
"Right now I would recommend the Asrock 880GM-LE micro-ATX board with the
AMD X4 970 chip, its an absolute smoker!! I did one this weekend and its
really (really) fast and really cheap."
-Tim
I've been thinking of upgrading and these components are relatively
inexpensive while being a substantial upgrade over my current system.
So, I ordered them. I'd like to use my current PC power supply. It
is a 250W PS. Does anyone know, or care to guess, if 250W is enough
for the above motherboard and cpu? Other components are 8 gigs ram, a
Siig firewire card, a hard drive, an M-audio Delta 44 sound card, a
Blue Ray burner, an external USB backup hard drive, and USB powered
speakers. If the power supply isn't powerful enough, how would I
know?
73, Bill W8EI
_______________________________________________
FlexRadio Systems Mailing List
FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz
http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz
Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/
Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
