[CTS] Re: A weekend project !
- From: cuffy10@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: "CTS" <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:39:52 -0800
Ahh, your question begs an answer but first my question.
How often do you run the three optical drives and the four hard drives,
simultaneously ?
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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:53:43 -0800, "Charles R. Buchanan"
<daphatbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> I would tend to agree with this guy that for "this" system, this PSU
> would be enough. Would he feel the same if he had three optical drives,
> 4 hard drives, along with the CPU, two case fans, the cpu fan, etc?
>
>
> "Note on the power supply: I?m using a SeaSonic S12-330 330 watt
> power supply, which can be had for $55. I swear by these power supplies,
> and I own five of them because they?re super efficient at above 80
> percent,
> they?re dead silent, and they?re very affordable. Most power supplies
> make much more noise and are typically in the 60-70 percent energy
> efficiency
> range. Many people spend upwards of $100 on a higher power
> supply, citing the myth that you need at least 400 watts and higher on a
> modern computer. That?s utter nonsense
> even for a high-end PC. Even the highestend
> PCs peak out at around 250 watts. The
> measured power consumption at the plug for
> the PC in this tutorial idled at around 73
> watts and peaked out at around 110 watts
> during intense CPU loads. The high wattage
> power supply proponents will often cite
> video card manuals specifying that they
> need a 400 watt power supply, but those
> numbers were just pulled out of thin air and
> aren?t based on actual power consumption
> measurements. 330 watts happens to be
> one of the smallest ATX power supplies you
> can find, and it?s more than enough for what
> we?re building here."
>
> On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 07:39:19 -0800, cuffy10@xxxxxxxxxxx took time to say
> the following:
>
> > http://tinyurl.com/2rm597
> >
> > Looks like a plan ?
> >
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