300W PSU is it just hype ?

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From: Andrew Taylor
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 00:00

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Hi,

I'm thinking about getting a new Athlon jobby. I've been reading you really
need a 300W PSU. All the cases I've looked at with a 300W PSU are either
butt ugly or like 100UKP. All I run of my PSU is ;

Motherboard and CPU/CPU Cooler
Nvidia TNT II (Diamond Viper)
Netgear Nic
AWE64v
Advansys SCSI
Floppy
IBM Deskstar UDMA66 HD
USB Camera

I've got an external SCSI box running from a seperate power supply and an
external modem. My monitor is powered from a plain cable not a hot'n'cold.

Do I really need a big PSU ? Won't a standard 235w do?

Andrew

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