New Power Supply MAYBE?????

kaytomtucker · Rated PG Joined: 26 Oct 2006 Posts: 1 Location: California

I have a Gateway 510M3 computer with I think a 250w power supply. Is this good enough for the new Windows Vista coming out??

knight0334 · Posted: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:33:22 Post Subject:

The only way a powersupply would be affected is because of the OTHER system requirements of Vista.

I did a quick spec search for Gateway 510M3 - nothing on the web.

If your system is above Vista's requirements, then you wont have to upgrade - which means your powersupply is fine.

If you have to upgrade your CPU, video card, harddrive, and/or memory - then your current powersupply may not provide enough energy to the system.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:28:44 Post Subject:

Looks like it's a:

2.8-GHz Intel Pentium 4
512MB DDR400 SDRAM
120GB hard drive
Integrated Intel Extreme Graphics 2
8X DVD+/-RW drive
integrated sound card
Microsoft Windows XP Professional.

So with that in mind it does meet the min requirements for Vista. However, that doesn't mean Vista will run well.

You will need to check if what ever sound card is there will have Vista drivers (can't use anything but Vista certified drivers), and if the video card does as well (should).

If not you will need to upgrade one or both of them, and that will add to your power consumption.

Again, minimum standards don't equal a good experience. I would HIGHLY recommend that you have at least 2GB of RAM before trying to run Vista on that computer.

**Modulok** · Posted: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:52:18 Post Subject:

mrweasel · Posted: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:07:30 Post Subject:

I've been running Vista on a lot less, but integrated graphics won't let you run Aero, which is one of the key things MS is touting

edvallie · Posted: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:49:04 Post Subject:

I can't understand why you'd want to run such an intensive OS, windows XP suffices just fine. Why waste system resources on running useless features that will probably even be more of a pain if anything for a while? Seems to me like sticking with XP for a while would be the better decesion. Not that this matters much to most of us, Vista won't be released for home users until early 07' at the very best.

knight0334 · Posted: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:21:13 Post Subject:

mrweasel · Posted: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:41:48 Post Subject:

as Steve Balmer said:
XP is Vista's competitor...I personally don't know anyone who is gonna plunk down $200 for Vista. I will probably run it at home (once I get my free copy from MSDN...and only because I'll need to support it)

edvallie · Posted: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:17:09 Post Subject:

BeerCheeze · Posted: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:46:13 Post Subject: