[comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware] 386-40 What size power supply needed?

whitney@reed.cs.unlv.edu (Lee Whitney) (05/17/91)

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