Opus 150 and Athlon XP?

philstuf · 07-05-2004, 11:26 PM

Does anyone have any experience running an Opus 150 watt PS with an Athlon XP 2200 (Or higher speed Athlon XP)? I currently have a Via M-10000 as my car PC and want to speed the little guy up by swapping in the athlon and motherboard. I was wondering if the Opus 150 really had enough juice to keep the athlon XP up and running. I have the Athlon system just lying around and wanted to put it to good use.

For anyone wondering about the extra hardware load, I will be running a single 3.5" hard drive, Asus motherboard, Geforce 4 MX (cheap bastard that I am

). There will be a couple of USB powered devices hooked directly to the motherboard (XMPCR, D-link DSB-R100, Deluo GPS). The DVD-Rom, USB hub and SB Audigy will all be powered from a separate regulated source and will not load the PC's power supply.

I do not currently have the Opus, and wanted a little feedback before I purchased.

Thanks in advance,

-Phil

racerdude · 04-18-2005, 09:05 AM

I am using a Atelon XP 2500 but underclocked the frontend bus to 100Mhz instead of 166(keep it running cooler in the summer) I have a USB slim CD drive and a 2.5 inch 30GB hard drive(3.5 inch can not handle the Gs in a gar especially the way I drive...) and everything else built on MOBO. It works file for me. Although I had to replace my previous 3.5" HD because it started getting bad sectors.