[Madlug] Need help with my new Cool master computer cases i got

[Cymen Vig]

Stephen Blair wrote:
>> The Prob is i not sure if i should get for a Power
>> Supply? I want to get a AMD XP 2000+ or 3000+.
> 
> Any 250 watt or 300 watt ATX power supply should work.  If you'll be 
> running lots of stuff on the computer (2 or more hard drives +DVD +CDRW, 
> and a monster video card, you should go for the higher wattage power 
> supply)
> 

Have the 2000+/3000+ CPUs radically lowered their power consumption over
the 1400-1700Mhz iterations?  If not, than 200 or 300 watt may not work.
  It isn't so much the watts as it is the amount of amperage on the
different power lines.  The AMD CPUs/motherboards really suck some juice
on voltages that the Intel motherboards don't pull on as much.  That is
why AMD had to come up with the AMD certified power supplies.  This is
pretty old information so a google search will dig up all the dirt.
Here is a Tom's Hardware article that may be of interest:

<http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/20021021/>

> _MY_ general rule is to never spend anything over 2000 on a brand new 
> system (these days more like 1500), and to never spend more than 400 on 
> upgrades.

Good advice.  For me, that $1500 would include a 17" or bigger DVI LCD.
  For just a regular system with 17" or 19" Trinitron CRT I would spend
no more than $900.