On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 12:52 -0700, Daniel Herrington wrote: > 350W Antec Basiq PSU > MSI motherboard w/ onboard video > 1.2 gb ram > 2 300 gb Drives > 1 36 GB dirve > 1 DVD burner
Power supplies run near optimal at ~80% of specification. Running them well below spec wastes lots of power and heat in switching. (For example, using a 750W supply for a 150W Celeron system silly---and wasteful.) If there are any EE's on the list, perhaps they can give a better explanation of what is going on... -- Eric Wheeler President eWheeler, Inc. www.eWheeler.net 503-330-4277 PO Box 86710 Portland, OR 97286 > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
