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If I wanted to install dual Radeon X300 256s in my system...

Aug 17, 2004 11:37PM PDT

...how big of a power supply would I need?

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Re: If I wanted to install dual Radeon X300 256s in my syste
Aug 17, 2004 11:53PM PDT

This is not unlike asking for new tires, but nothing as to what size rims and what car it's going on!

http://www.tomshardware.com has a few articles about power supplies that you can read about to see if you can figure out if your machine has the power.

Bob

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Re: If I wanted to install dual Radeon X300 256s in my syste
Aug 18, 2004 12:17AM PDT

My bad. I was actually asking the minimum I would need just to run the cards themselves, but here are the specs. to the best of my knowledge:

3.0 GHz Pentium 4 Prescott w/ HT and 800fsb, 1GB PC-4000 DDR2 500MHz ram, dual 36.7GB Western Digital Raptor 10000rpm HDDs (raid 0), Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card, [soon to be] dual GeCube x300 256mb video cards, 8x dvd-rw, 16x dvd drive, 56x drive, 3.5" floppy, multimedia keyboard, Intellimouse 4.0 wireless mouse.

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Re: If I wanted to install dual Radeon X300 256s in my syste
Aug 18, 2004 1:01AM PDT

If I plug that into tomshardware I go a number that I'd pick up the 500Watt units.

Bob