How many Watts

[John]

Hi
I have a P4 2.8GHZ with HT, GA-8AIPE1000 pro 2 motherboard
1GB PC3300 RAM
1 x 120GB HDD
1 x 40GB HDD
1 x Samsung DVD ROM
1 x DVR 107 Pioneer Burner
1 x FX5200 Graphics card
1 x Winfast 2000 XP tuner card
1 x 400W power supply

I use ths system mainly for converting my home movies VHS to DVD

My question is I want to fit another 120GB HDD SATA (WD120JD). The system
has a 400W power supply will i need to upgrade this?


Thanks for you help

 

[Rheilly Phoull]

"John" <trueblueace@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi
I have a P4 2.8GHZ with HT, GA-8AIPE1000 pro 2 motherboard
1GB PC3300 RAM
1 x 120GB HDD
1 x 40GB HDD
1 x Samsung DVD ROM
1 x DVR 107 Pioneer Burner
1 x FX5200 Graphics card
1 x Winfast 2000 XP tuner card
1 x 400W power supply

I use ths system mainly for converting my home movies VHS to DVD

My question is I want to fit another 120GB HDD SATA (WD120JD). The
system
has a 400W power supply will i need to upgrade this?


Thanks for you help

I wouldn't worry personally

--
Regards ........... Rheilly Phoull

 

[Brian Goldsmith]

"Rheilly Phoull" wrote

My question is I want to fit another 120GB HDD SATA (WD120JD). The
system
has a 400W power supply will i need to upgrade this?

I wouldn't worry personally


Rheilly Phoull


****** In what manner then would you worry??

Brian Goldsmith.

 

[Rheilly Phoull]

"Brian Goldsmith" <brian.goldsmith@nospam.echo1.com.au> wrote in message
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"Rheilly Phoull" wrote

My question is I want to fit another 120GB HDD SATA (WD120JD). The
system
has a 400W power supply will i need to upgrade this?



I wouldn't worry personally


Rheilly Phoull


****** In what manner then would you worry??

Brian Goldsmith.


Mainly encountering pratts like yourself I guess ??

--
Regards ........... Rheilly Phoull

 

[KLR]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:06:00 +1000, "John" <trueblueace@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Hi
I have a P4 2.8GHZ with HT, GA-8AIPE1000 pro 2 motherboard
1GB PC3300 RAM
1 x 120GB HDD
1 x 40GB HDD
1 x Samsung DVD ROM
1 x DVR 107 Pioneer Burner
1 x FX5200 Graphics card
1 x Winfast 2000 XP tuner card
1 x 400W power supply

I use ths system mainly for converting my home movies VHS to DVD

My question is I want to fit another 120GB HDD SATA (WD120JD). The system
has a 400W power supply will i need to upgrade this?


Thanks for you help

I dont think it will be needed.

best system I saw had 6 hard drives each in excess of 160gig , 2
burners a athlon 2.2 gig processor and 4 large case fans. Never gave
problems and power supply was 400 watt or close to.