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Pentium 3 watt requirement?
Name: SniperX Date: August 5, 2003 at 11:14:06 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: 288mb
Comment:
How much watts does it take to run a Pentium 3 Processor?
Name: Death-Knight Date: August 5, 2003 at 11:23:31 Pacific
Reply:
My girl's P III 650Mhz only got a 90 watts psu
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Response Number 2
Name: Josh Date: August 5, 2003 at 11:30:45 Pacific
Reply:
I'd say 200 watts would be enough... 250 at the most. Thats if your talking about for a whole Pentium 3 system. Don't put a whole 200 watts just on the processor.
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Response Number 3
Name: jake Date: August 5, 2003 at 11:38:00 Pacific
Reply:
You have to take the whole system into consideration. RAM and the drives also draw power. But 250 should do fine for a normal system. However, more doesn't hurt.
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Response Number 4
Name: rac Date: August 5, 2003 at 11:38:35 Pacific
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Can't put my hands on the specs at the moment, but as I remember it a P4 cpu draws about 70-80 W, and the P3 cpu slightly less. (That is just the cpu).
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Response Number 5
Name: Z_SniperX_Z Date: August 5, 2003 at 11:41:17 Pacific
Reply:
Noo... im just replacing my old motherboard and processor... My power supply outputs 140 watts... would that run a p3 550mhz cpu?
My system specs:
Pentium 2 266mhz CPU 288mb RAM 140 Watt power supply 30gb HDD Geforce 2 32mb video card Sound blaster PCI sound card 24x CD-ROM 16x10x40x CD-Rewriter 10/100MB Eithernet Card 56k V.90 PCI MMX Modem (not in use)
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Response Number 6
Name: rac Date: August 5, 2003 at 12:06:48 Pacific
Reply:
140 W would be cutting it pretty close, at best. If it's not enough (as it may not be under load) your system will freeze up.
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