I currently have the following, so from what you guys have posted it appears I'd be fine:
350W Antec Basiq PSU MSI motherboard w/ onboard video 1.2 gb ram 2 300 gb Drives 1 36 GB dirve 1 DVD burner Thanks. On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Quentin Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Daniel B. Herrington Director of Field Services Robert Mark Technologies [email protected] o: 651-769-2574 m: 503-358-8575 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
