What are my odds? (MicroATX PSU-230W)
Hi, I'm about to purchase a new microATX motherboard along with a pentium 4 3.2 Ghz 800-FSB CPU. I already have the case, it came today. The PSU is only 230 Watts, though. I will also be installing two dual channel PC-3200 DDR-400 memory sticks, CD-RW drive, floppy drive, Nvidia PCI video card, Maxtor HDD, and a sound card.
My question is, what are my chances of having enough power to run this box until I can afford to buy a stronger+better quality PSU? And if there is even a chance, what components/peripherals could I attempt to do without to get it to run. Like, leaving out the PCI video card/floppy drive/sound card and using the onboard video/sound until I get the new PSU? Would this even work? I'm not aware of which components suck how much wattage and whatnot so I've come for help.
Here's exactly what I'm getting:
MOBO
CHIP
CASE
Thanks in advance.
Thought you guys might need a laugh...
Hate to drag this thread up again. :o
Well, in an unforeseen twist in my favor it seems everything worked out ok afterall. The mobo in the box in my parents room was from an old Dell 2300 and it just happend to fit in that microatx case I bought (not sure why that never dawned on me). I'm damn glad I didn't use this thing for myself cause I had a hell of a time getting everything in it and the CD-RW isn't even in it! They never use that anyway. It ain't too pretty, but I thought you guys might want to look at what I ended up with. It's funny to me. I'll be getting an enermax 270 Watt for this box at a later date.
The PSU is being held down by velcrow. Image quality not so good: