On Wed, July 18, 2007 10:43 am, Pablo Manalastas 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.
Quoting John's original message below: On Wed, July 18, 2007 9:02 am, John Homer H Alvero wrote: > Im also preping up a new box for home. I'm also looking at a good TV > Card for MythTV. I'm thinking of one of those low power consumption > CPU since i will be leaving the box online most of the time. His primary requirement was to have a PC with a low power consumption. =) > 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. I totally agree with provided that you're not concerned with its power consumption. > 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? This I also don't know how to keep dust out of the box. But as what I learned from Ian Sison, it is better to use an air compressor (the one used at the vulcanizing shops to load air for your wheels) instead of a vacuum cleaner. Marvin _________________________________________________ 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
