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From: whitney@reed.cs.unlv.edu (Lee Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 386-40  What size power supply needed?
Message-ID: <1991May16.211659.25614@unlv.edu>
Date: 16 May 91 21:16:59 GMT
References: <1991May16.165811.10463@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Sender: Lee Whitney
Organization: UNLV Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
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I recently ordered a 386-40 with 8 meg RAM, and the sales person said
that a 200w power supply would be largely inadequate because of the
clock speed.

Does any one have enough hardware knowledge to know if this will
really be a problem?

I will also have in the system a Seagate 1144a 130 meg drive, a modem,
graphics card and i/o card, but the system will never be used as a
network server or anything.  I also had been using a 386-33 with a
200w ps previously with no problems.  It seemed funny that 7mhz would
make that much of a difference, but then again I am not an electrical
person.

Thanks,  Lee