Can 250 watts take 2gb ram

[Leoncomputerlover14]

i have a dell dimension 3000 and i would like to upgrade the ram to 2 gb right now it think it has like 565 mb of ram or something like that.i was wondering if i would have to upgrade my power supply too if i upgraded to 2 gb ram.

 

[mouse24]

No, you'll be fine, ram hardly uses 1w

 

[InvalidError]

DRAM chips use 150-250mW each while active so a typical 16-chips DIMM would use ~2.5W. Still pretty much inconsequential as far as PSUs go but quite a bit more (relatively speaking) than 1W.

 

[mouse24]

I uh, don't know what to say to that.

 

[Leoncomputerlover14]

Best answer selected by Leoncomputerlover14.

 

[Leoncomputerlover14]

thanxz for the help