250 Watt PSU....How much can it handle?

[ledzep228]

I've had the same Dell 4600 for a few years. I haven't done any upgrades on it to speak of until yesterday. I bought a Radeon x1300 256mb AGP graphics card to replace the GeForce FX5200 128mb it came with.

The only other hardware I have is a CD-ROM and Writer, floppy drive, sound card, 2 small speakers, monitor, hard drive....very basic stuff.

The DiamondMM website suggests a 420 Watt PSU. That seems like alot of power for a mid-range card and I really don't want to fork over $50 for a new power supply. Do you think my PSU will be able to handle this new video card? Thanks.

-ledzep

 

[sunangel]

Yes, it's enough. X1300 would very little additional power than what you already have.

 

[Lowsky]

just so you know Dell wont let you use anything but Dell power supplies... stupid I know but thats how dell makes money.

be aware that to upgrade your RAM you need Dell style RAM as well.
Newegg.com has a whole section on System compatable RAM

 

[ledzep228]

just so you know Dell wont let you use anything but Dell power supplies... stupid I know but thats how dell makes money.

be aware that to upgrade your RAM you need Dell style RAM as well.
Newegg.com has a whole section on System compatable RAM

Now that you bring that up I remeber that I put another gig of RAM in too ....had to use Kingston I think.