On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:20 PM, m0gely <[email protected]> wrote: > Quentin Hartman wrote: > > > If you have other power-hungry components (most notably high-end video > > cards) you will probably need more than that. Anything over 500 watts is > > overkill though unless you know for sure you need it, and even then, you > > usually don't. As a point of reference, I have an upper-mid-end / > > lower-high-end gaming machine (Major components include: single Raptor > HDD, > > AMD X2 6000+ (125W TDP), Nvidia 9600GT video) that draws about 300 Watts > > under load. > > Check out the comment by BikeHelmet: > > http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1241585&cid=28050629 >
Yeah, my 6000+ draws a lot of power since it is the first-gen at that speed level. I've considered swapping out the processor for a newer lower-power one and a good 80+ PSU (probably 500 watt-ish) and see what a difference it makes. I almost never use this machine anymore though, so I've decided not to bother. I think I've used it all of 10 hours in the last 6 months. I just don't have time for gaming lately, and everything else I do works fine on laptops. QH _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
