power supply and overtax questions

[Guest]

I bought my computer on january of 2004, my computer has a 200 watts power
supply and I'm thinking of replacing my 4x DVD+RW Drive with a newer 16x
Internal Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive.

Internal Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive specification:
(16x DVD+R, 8x DVD-R, 4x DVD+RW, 4x DVD-RW, 16x DVD-ROM, 2.4X DL, 40x CD-R,
24x CD-RW, 40x CD-ROM.

will this new Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive overtax the amount of wattage
I have?

my computer spec:
OS: MCE 2005
Pentium 4 ht
2.8 ghz, 512mb
9200 ati radeon 128mb AGP
single TV tuner
160 harddrive
7 in 1 memory card reader
2 optical drive (48x cd-rom, 4x DVD+RW/CD-RW)

 

[Mistoffolees]

I bought my computer on january of 2004, my computer has a 200 watts power
supply and I'm thinking of replacing my 4x DVD+RW Drive with a newer 16x
Internal Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive.

Internal Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive specification:
(16x DVD+R, 8x DVD-R, 4x DVD+RW, 4x DVD-RW, 16x DVD-ROM, 2.4X DL, 40x CD-R,
24x CD-RW, 40x CD-ROM.

will this new Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive overtax the amount of wattage
I have?

my computer spec:
OS: MCE 2005
Pentium 4 ht
2.8 ghz, 512mb
9200 ati radeon 128mb AGP
single TV tuner
160 harddrive
7 in 1 memory card reader
2 optical drive (48x cd-rom, 4x DVD+RW/CD-RW)

FWIW, IMHO 200 Watts is a little bit too light-weight even
for the current system. We start with a minimum of 400 Watts
for any basic Pentium-4 machine.

 

[Sharon F]

I bought my computer on january of 2004, my computer has a 200 watts power
supply and I'm thinking of replacing my 4x DVD+RW Drive with a newer 16x
Internal Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive.

Internal Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive specification:
(16x DVD+R, 8x DVD-R, 4x DVD+RW, 4x DVD-RW, 16x DVD-ROM, 2.4X DL, 40x CD-R,
24x CD-RW, 40x CD-ROM.

will this new Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive overtax the amount of wattage
I have?

my computer spec:
OS: MCE 2005
Pentium 4 ht
2.8 ghz, 512mb
9200 ati radeon 128mb AGP
single TV tuner
160 harddrive
7 in 1 memory card reader
2 optical drive (48x cd-rom, 4x DVD+RW/CD-RW)

This website has a calculator to help you determine what power supply is
needed for your system's configuration:
http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/

 

[Yves Leclerc]

If your system is not "overtaxed" yet, you are very lucky. With a DVD
burner, 7 in 1 card readerm 2 optical drives and a hyper-threaded P4, a 350
watt would have been the "starting" power supply, so that you would have
"room" to expand.

Nowadays, a 400 watt power supply is more or less standard for for P4s. A
500 watt power supply would give you more "room" to expand later (if you
want a better video card.)


BTW: Replace you CD Rom drive instead! With two DVD drives, you can do
direct DVD to DVD copies.

 

[Andy]

I bought my computer on january of 2004, my computer has a 200 watts power
supply and I'm thinking of replacing my 4x DVD+RW Drive with a newer 16x
Internal Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive.

Internal Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive specification:
(16x DVD+R, 8x DVD-R, 4x DVD+RW, 4x DVD-RW, 16x DVD-ROM, 2.4X DL, 40x CD-R,
24x CD-RW, 40x CD-ROM.

will this new Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive overtax the amount of wattage
I have?

No. The difference in power consumption between the two subject drives
isn't huge.