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Power requirements
Component Requirement Line(s) Used
High-wattage AGP card 20-50W +3.3V
Average PCI card 5W +5V
Cached SCSI controller PCI card 20-25W +3.3V and +5V
Floppy drive 5W +5V
10/100 NIC 4W +3.3V
50x Atapi CD-ROM 10 - 25W +5V and +12V
12x Atapi DVD-ROM 10 - 25W +5V and +12V
12x / 10x / 40x SCSI CD-R/RW 20W +5V and +12V
SCSI CD-ROM 12W +5V and +12V
RAM 8W per 128MB +3.3V
Ultra2 SCSI PCI card 5W +3.3V and +5V
7200rpm IDE hard drive 5 - 15W +5V and +12V
7200rpm Ultra2 SCSI hard drive 24W +5V and +12V
10,000rpm SCSI drive 10 - 40W +5V and +12V
Motherboard (without CPU or RAM) 20 - 30W +3.3V and +5V
Typical Pentium II 30W +5V
1GHz Pentium III 34W +5V
1.7GHz Pentium 4 65W +12V
1.4GHz AMD Athlon 70W +12V
hope this helps you to add up your requirements
peter
"Lew/+Silat" <silatdelete@drafted1969invalid.not> wrote in message
news:RNudnRAFiZd0PGXdRVn-gw@comcast.com...
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> Yes basically what size power supply

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> Lew/+Silat
> peter wrote:
> > .8volt according to the ATI Radeon Specs
> > or did you mean to ask how big a Power Supply you'll need??
> > which of course depends upon all other peripheals you have in your
> > system...from CPU to hard drives to memory to CD to DVD to sound
> > cards.....they all need a certain amount of power
> > peter
> > "Lew/+Silat" <silatdelete@drafted1969invalid.not> wrote in message
> > news:_tCdneBgPuLbM2rdRVn-tw@comcast.com...
> >> What is the min power needed for this card?
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> >> Lew/+Silat
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