Le mer 11/09/2002 � 23:41, Xavier Bestel a �crit :
> Le mer 11/09/2002 � 22:51, Mark Vojkovich a �crit :
> >    Do you have alot of power consumption in your system?  How
> > many Watts can the power supply provide?  Can you hear phenomenon
> > like your fans sounding like their RPMs are dropping when you
> > do cpu or graphics intensive tasks?  Even if the power supply
> > itself is OK, it could be a regulation problem on the board.
> 
> I have a 150W PSU (a "Wintech"), on a dual-pIII 1GHz (with big fans
> which sound a bit like a 747 taking-off), 2 HDDs, an internal Zip, a
> DVD, a CDRW, an IEEE1394 card, an eth card, a sound card, and obviously
> a R128 AGP and a TNT2 PCI. I have to admit I really don't know how much
> power all this may drain.
> And yes, I can tell the CPUs load just by listening to the fans.

Err ... I mistyped, it's a 250W PSU. But after surfing a bit, it seems
it's way out of specs. So well ... I'll have to go and buy a bigger one,
something like a 400W I think.

Thanks a lot for the tip.


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