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Originally Posted by pop80_uk
Hi
I have recently got a new case for my PC, It has cathodes and a few gadgets, I have also recieved a DVD-RW drive. My question is can I simply upgrade from a 250w PSU to a 500W or will it blow my mother board?
Im running a
P4 1.1GHz PC
512MB RAM
Nvinda 3200 Graphincs card
Two floppy drives
Segate hard drive
Samsung 2nd hard drive
DVD drive
DVD RW drive
will it be OK to go for the 500w PSU? sorry if it seems a silly question.  |
500w will be fine - the rating is to do with how much power it can supply - you will not be using the whole of the abailable power, but it will not blow the MoBo.
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Originally Posted by pop80_uk
Also, If I upgrade my motherboard, chip and RAM, can I just use the old hard drives with it, or does everything need to be re-installed?
Id like to go to about 2.00GHz.
Sorry if both seem silly, just sometime the obviuos questions are the ones you cant answer. 
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If you are running XP, you will be ok to use the existing HD, but you will have to do a "repair" using the original XP CD (so if you do not have a full install CD this can be very tricky).
I notice that you are running an Nvidia Gfx card, and from experiance, I would uninstall the drivers before you do the upgrade, as I have found that Nvidia drivers cause the repair to fail (I spent a couple of very frustrated hours finding that out
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You may or may not need to re-activate windows - I found on mine that when I replaced everything but the GFX card and the HD - I was ok - but I then upgraded the GFX card and had to re-register.
HTH
Zovat