Dell Desktop Power Consumption

Does my Dell Inspiron 531 PC needs more than 300 watts of power to run these specifications:?

1GB RAM Vista Home Premium AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core 5000 + 250GB hard drive integrated NVIDIA ® GeForce ® 6150 LE graphic GPU 16X DVD + /-RW Integrated 7.1 channel audio. 13 in 1 card reader media. Other things that I use with my pc are webcam, printer, speakers. Then you can help me with my Dell Inspiron 531 desktop. What if I want to upgrade to a better graphics card compatiable with this pc, what would u recommend and I would have to increase the supply of energy if I get a really good video card. If I want to keep my power supply 300watts, so what graphics card you Tell me. And I would like to add RAM 2×512 to my pc increase in consumption. Thank you.

No, you do not. Still, I would get more for future upgrade. Make sure you get a power supply compatible with your system, there are so many different.

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