I recently received a PCI videocard in the mail. It had a recommendation of 250 watts or higher. The problem is I only have a 150 watt output. Is this card still going to run or will it burn out my PC?
I have a Surge Protector also.
150 watt power supply
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150 watt power supply
by Full Surface on Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:38 am
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by Little_Big_Man on Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:30 am
I seriously doubt if your pc is running on anything below a 250w. AMD Athlons and Pentium III's run on at least a 300w. Pentium 4's use at least a 400w.
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by Full Surface on Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:32 am
I'm using Intel Celeron. I opened the PC earlier and it had 150w output. 
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by 754boy on Wed May 26, 2004 12:51 pm
It won't burn out you PC. It just might not work properly. I had this same problem so I upgraded to a 450w power supply and it runs just fine now. Power supplies are not that expensive anymore. You might wanna consider purchasing a more powerful one.
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