On 7/18/07, Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Marvin T. Pascual" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't need to buy a 400watts PSU if the total power consumption of your > PC is only at 200watts or less. > When we are just starting out to build a home PC system, we think that > 250watt > power supply is all we need. Then when we get more money, we want to get > more and more stuff that we want to put into the box, and pretty soon, our > power > supply can't handle all those additions. So my STRONG RECOMMENDATION is to > get the highest wattage power supply that you can afford, from the start. > Then install fan here and fan there: two power supply fans, one CPU fan > mounted not on the CPU (since the constant vibration could unseat the CPU > from its socket), one hard disk fan per drive, two chassis/body fans. The > new Intel Core, Intel Core Duo, Intel Core2 Duo, Intel Quad Core, etc are > all crazy about spewing all that heat everywhere -- so extra fans help. > Besides we live in a tropical country, and our rooms are not all > airconditioned, so fans help.
Amen. And to others, note too that some cheap PSU are rated at 60% efficiency range. So your 250W maybe only rated at 150W actually. > There is one more problem for which I have no solution: how to keep dust out > of the CPU box. What kind of dust filters will not increase the heat inside > the box? > Is it better to just vacuum the box every two months? Every quarter, I get the habit to open the case and bring it outside and use air duster spray can to clean it out. -- regards, Andre | http://www.varon.ca _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
