can my cheap power supply do this?

[Millow]

I have a cheap 300W power supply.

could it handle my specs (see sig) and some sort of video card cooler, a zalman 7000, and a few case fans?

i'm guessing the answer is no, right?

 

[Sideroxylon]

It would be close. Maximum PC just ran an article a couple months ago that gave approximate voltages for the different items in your pc. If you could find that or something similar it would really help you make your decision.

 

[Az2]

...or you could be safe and buy my 450 Watt PSU [H]ERE

..yeah, it'll be close with 300 watts, especially when both hard drives are spinning.

 

[yoink]

I temporarily had a fortron 300w when my antec blew up. It ran an XP 2500,NF7-s, 2x120 Gb 7200 rpm hard drives, two optical drives, 512mb ram, AIW 9600 PRO. It all ran just as good as the antec 430w, although i didn't overclock anything with the 300w. I say give it a shot, unless you want to overclock at all.

 

[bobsaget]

is that one stick of ram or two?

 

[FiZ]

I temporarily had a fortron 300w when my antec blew up. It ran an XP 2500,NF7-s, 2x120 Gb 7200 rpm hard drives, two optical drives, 512mb ram, AIW 9600 PRO. It all ran just as good as the antec 430w, although i didn't overclock anything with the 300w. I say give it a shot, unless you want to overclock at all.

Fortron is a good brand, we don't know what this guy has.