How much wattage?

[Vigilante]

Hi,
I'm starting 24/7 CS server for my friends and I. The parts are still on the way but the specs are, P3 500 MHz, 128 mb pc100, 10 gig hdd (I know a bad pc, but it will run an 8 person private dedicated server well. How many watts in a PS would i need to run this? I'm thinking around 200. I know that this is most likely not possible, but is it possible to find the wattage of your power supply in windows?

Thanks

 

[RandomPING]

I have no idea how to find your wattage in windows, but looking at those specs it seems like a 200 watt would be just fine, though you might be able to find a 250 Watt cheeper as they're more common.

 

[Paintballer]

You cannot find PSU wattage in Windows, but 200watts will be plenty for that setup. If you want more, just buy one of the cheap-o 400-500 watters, and subtract about 100watts of their rating, since the cheapest ones aren't really what they seem. Either way, a 200watt PSU will be more than enough for that system.

 

[Asus]

Get a reliable Enermax or Antec PSU!
Watts don't matter as much as how the amps are distributed on the rails (+3.3v/+5/+12).
I looked at a 350 Watt PSU one time and it had 28amps on the +12v rail (the molex connectors that run Harddrives/Optical drives etc) and the 330Watt Antec had a +12v rail at 29amps.
That right there shows ya Watts arn't everything.
The +3.3v rail was higher by a few amps aswell but I don't remember numbers.

 

[ComradeBadger]

Yeah, you can run that off about a 300W, or a 230W tbh, you can get away with running anything upto a XP 1700+ (thats all I've dared to test it with )