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Originally Posted by Colinevan
How would i find out if my power supply has enough juice or would it be the motherboard. Sorry for all the questions.
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Questions are good mate - and as you can see has sparked some debate.
The power supply (PSU) rating is easy enough to find out hopefully.
You need to pop open the side panel on your computer, locate the PSU (its what the plug goes into!
) and on the side of it usually on a sticker it will say what wattage it is. 200W, 350W, 600 etc etc.
If its an older machine (i.e. > 5 years) then its probably at the lower end of the scale of say 200-300; and might need replaced.
But it also depends on what other peripherals you have in the computer - floppy disk, CD drive, DVD drive, hard disks (HDD) expansion cards (for sound, firewire, usb, etc)