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****Rough psu Info****

thought i woiuld add this for u all

The mobo itself takes up between 15 to 30 watts. To that, you must add the load from your processor. A 700MHz Celeron takes 21W, rising to 33W for a 1GHz PIII and 55W for a P4. Athlons are the hungriest though, requiring 70W.

Now factor in all your hard drives. The floppy requires a modest 5W but each IDE hard drive needs up to 15W and a CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD or SCSI hard drive sucks up 25W. Really fast 15,000rpm drives can use as much as 45W each.

Finally, add 5W for every PCI card installed, 20W for the graphics card (rising to 50W for a high-end GeForce) and 7W for every 128Mb of RAM. If you've installed extra cooling fans, don't forget to allow 3-5W for them, too.

gives u all a idea for psu buying if u need to :)
 
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Them figures are if the devices is at full load, and i doubt you'd ever have ever singal one of your devices running at 100%, so you cant cut abit of after.

Depends, its very easy for a 300W PSU to outpower a 400W PSU, bigger isnt always better.

Depends what rail the drain is.
 
the security of having the extra juice is preferred IMO. buying an enermax or antec (esp true power) would just add to that security.
 
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Defo greg :) u need a beast to keep ur kit goin, its only a rough guide to help ppl out ffs no need to pick holes in it Bahamut :p:

Im with steve though, better off with a good quality PSU, peace of mind and the like

My enermax has been just fine
 
Antec PSUs are good quality in general... ATX connectors are not:(
 
Originally posted by Ghost
personally i have 7 ultra scsi 15k drives
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Unless you have an extremely well isolated case that must sound like sitting inside a centrifuge when running it.

I have 1 15k ultra-320 and it sounds more than enough already ffs :P
 
ive got 3 15k's and 3 10k's in my case and although it isnt quiet its not that bad, nothing a few loud fans cant drown out :D

Ive also got a 1st generation maxtor 10k disk and I can hear that in the other room when it spins up or accesses the disk!
 
Most newer 10k and 15k disks are well quite, especially the Seagate 15k.3's. Older ones on the otherhand can be extremenly noisey, just shifted and IBM Ultrastar 10k drive that sounded like a hairdryer.
 
lol, u just reminded me of a rather dim-witted m8 of mine who turned the power supply on the back of his comp up to 250V, and blew his motherboard.
 
Benzo said:
im running p4 3.0ghz, 1gb ram, 1x250 gb hd and radeon 9800pro on 200W psu
and havent had any problems with that :D

http://www.epox.nl/english/products/barebone/300s.htm

dont think its made to be a gaming machine tho
couse theere is not mutch space left
i can either have a radeon card or an extra hd
only 2 connectors

edit: Your Recommended Minimum Power Supply is 248 Watts!!
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WTF

Your prolly not getting the full potential out of your system.

I dont belive it runs fine.

You running windows 95/98 aswell i guess?
 
very doubtful imo.
3ghz p4 max draw is 81W or so. then a pretty hefty draw from the 9800pro when really working hard.
And add the smaller loads for mobo+ram, harddisk, soundcard, (ethernet). You wont have much room if any to handle surges or extra/sudden load.
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040504/ati-x800-09.html <- is a higher specced machine with some nice cards. take a look and see the overall powerdraw. I'm betting ur at around 185w if not more.
cpu powerdraw, check this: http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040601/images/cpu_history_big.gif
 
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