On 15-01-06 02:18 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| From: Kevin Cozens <[email protected]>
| Any spec for a video card as to power supply wattage would be a minimum.
Not in my (limited) experience. I have bought cards that wanted to
specify how big my system's power supply was because the actual
required arithmetic is too hard for customers. They just guessed at
what the rest of my system would require and left a margin for error.
The real specs are a little tricky in theory (I don't actually know
what things are like now).
Yes, it is a bit more complicated an issue than I may have made it out to be
but I didn't want to overwhelm the person asking the question with too many
details. There are websites online that let you estimate the power
consumption of a computer based on what is inside the box. Even those can be
based more on typical values for different items rather and may still not
represent the actual power requirements for the items in ones own computer case.
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