Is a 300w power supply adequate for an i7 ?

[swedeintheus]

Hello,
I'm uprading a Gateway DX4320-02E with a new mother board, an I7-2600, and 32GB of ram. The PC has a 300watt PS. Will this be enough or does this need to be upgraded to? I'm running 2 internal HD,s and one external HD as well as an CD/DVD drive.

 

[amuffin]

What will this system be doing? 300Watts should be plenty to run all of those devices.

 

[abekl]

Should be ok as long as you're not using an external graphics card.

 

[fixxxer113]

Yep, you will definately won't be able to add a dedicated graphics card... also check your current PSU's ATX specs to see if it has all nescessary power connectors for the motherboard.

 

[loneninja]

It should be fine as long as your using the integrated graphics and won't be overclocking, add in an overclock or video card and it'll probably be pushing it to hard.

 

[HEXiT]

32gigs of ram with no gfx card? thats an odd choice for a build... if your just web surfing and doing spreadsheets then you could get away with as little as 2 gigs of ram...
seriously 32gig does seem a lot on a system running a cpu gpu...

 

[mildgamer001]

^ maybe he is just upgrading those two for now and wants to wait to save more money and just get a psu/gpu later on when needed or afforded.

 

[swedeintheus]

32gigs of ram with no gfx card? thats an odd choice for a build... if your just web surfing and doing spreadsheets then you could get away with as little as 2 gigs of ram...
seriously 32gig does seem a lot on a system running a cpu gpu...

Hi HEXiT:

The PC is used exclusively for music production, which uses a ton of RAM and runs the proccessor quite hard. However, the most demanding video it will ever run is Quicktime movies, and the production programs (Finale & Cubase) don't benefit from special graphics cards.

 

[swedeintheus]

Thanks everybody, however, I do have one more question, if I may. Will I have to re-install all drivers and such, or will a new MB+proccessor it "plug and play" given that I'm keeping the original hard drive?

 

[sk1939]

Boot into safe mode and uninstall all the drivers once you install the new processor and motherboard that it lets you, so you don't BSOD on boot.

 

[HEXiT]

Hi HEXiT:

The PC is used exclusively for music production, which uses a ton of RAM and runs the proccessor quite hard. However, the most demanding video it will ever run is Quicktime movies, and the production programs (Finale & Cubase) don't benefit from special graphics cards.

that makes more sense i have a m8 who also does music production... his system doesnt have anywhere near that amount of ram though...
he also dual boots with hackintosh which allows him to use the mac based software which his collage uses.
maybe you should look into that side of things as he swears by the ease of use of the mac apps

 

[swedeintheus]

that makes more sense i have a m8 who also does music production... his system doesnt have anywhere near that amount of ram though...
he also dual boots with hackintosh which allows him to use the mac based software which his collage uses.
maybe you should look into that side of things as he swears by the ease of use of the mac apps

Hi HEXiT:

If you do mainly audio recordings, 4-6 GB is enough, but with midi/VST, and adding effects, 16-32 GB is what you need to be safe. I have 8 GB now, and do I run out from time to time. Memory has gotten so inexpensive, that I think it would be silly not to load up to the max, and never have to worry about it.