Will 300 W PSU be anough for grahic card

[Olav Rekve]

Hey is a PSu on 300 W enough for a X700 or X800XL??
Thanks in advance

 

[DaveW]

That depends: What other components are in your computer?

 

[kony]

Hey is a PSu on 300 W enough for a X700 or X800XL??
Thanks in advance

What specific PSU and what other parts?
In general, no, the typical system in which one had those
installed would need a higher capacity PSU unless it just
happened to have a rail/amperage distribution that came near
what the system needs. IOW, most systems don't use more
than 300W but use more amperage from one rail than another
so the wattage of the PSU simply accounts for the capacity
enough on every rail to have the worst amperage draw on any
of them, covered.

 

[Olav Rekve]

What specific PSU and what other parts?
In general, no, the typical system in which one had those
installed would need a higher capacity PSU unless it just
happened to have a rail/amperage distribution that came near
what the system needs. IOW, most systems don't use more
than 300W but use more amperage from one rail than another
so the wattage of the PSU simply accounts for the capacity
enough on every rail to have the worst amperage draw on any
of them, covered.

Crappy 915 chipset
I have a P4 3.4 ghz prescott
2 x 250 GB SATA with 8 MB Ram from WD
1 GB DDR 3200 RAM
Gigabit Ethernet
Win XP PRO
the sucky Shared 900 graphic card that i was planning to swap out wi8th the
X700 or X800XL

 

[Derek Baker]

Crappy 915 chipset
I have a P4 3.4 ghz prescott
2 x 250 GB SATA with 8 MB Ram from WD
1 GB DDR 3200 RAM
Gigabit Ethernet
Win XP PRO
the sucky Shared 900 graphic card that i was planning to swap out wi8th
the X700 or X800XL

You could always try it. But I'm guessing no.