Quick question about power supplies

[andygibbs]

Hi,

I've decided that it's about time I upgraded to a higher wattage PSU. Currently I only have a 250W, and am probably going to upgrade to a 450W. I just wanted to know, is there any way that upping the power supply could damage my system? (It's probably a really stupid question but i want to be sure).

In case it matters, my specs are:

Mobo: gigabyte GA7VKMLS
CPU: AMD athlon XP 2000+
RAM: two slots - 256MB PC133 in each - total 512MB
IDE devices: 80GB Hard drive, CDRW, DVD ROM
PCI cards: (3 pci slots -all filled) Geforce FX5200 256MB graphics card,
Belkin 54g wireless card, Firewire card

(Plus a lot of USB hardware)

Please advise,

thanks
Andy

 

[tbrunt3]

I have posted a number of times about power supplies in here this is always a big question ... But it will not hurt your system if you upgrade your ps, just make sure you get a good one with a least a 70% effencity rating some where in the 100$ range US. And make sureyou have the correct form factor..