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Keeb Daddy

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I am adding a 320gb hard drive... will I need to upgrade my power supply as well???

Dell Dimension E521
AMD 4200 Dual
4gb Ram
250gb Hard Drive

I hope not... lol... I'm tired of spending money finally...
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kamille316

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Are you using the stock PSU? You shouldn't have to, hard drives does not use much power. However if you added an 8800GT with that then you'll need to replace the PSU but since you didn't indicate that you did, you should be fine with using the stock PSU.

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Edited by kamille316, 12 February 2008 - 05:01 PM.

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yeah... stock psu... only things I've added are ram and a dvd drive... and now this hard drive...
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Stock PSU should be fine.
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thank you!
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