how much juice does your rig require? (calculator)

[petrefax]

just been sent this link, it looks very handy

http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/

this provides a number of drop-downs & tick boxes to enter the components in your rig & it calculates the wattage required to run them (and hencee the size of PSU required)

[DR]

*awesome link

[Shogun]

303w :d

[Swafe]

184

[Snow-Munki]

289 watts

guess my enermax 431 watt psu is overkill then

[Reaper]

good for a rough idea and for the fun factor but i seriosuly doubt its much good outside of that. theres far too many other factors involved such as rails and make of psu.

[Shogun]

Yea im using a 350w generic jobbie Seems to be running ok without any random restarts which my other psu was giving. Why is mine so high compared to you lots?

[Mulda]

good for a rough idea and for the fun factor but i seriosuly doubt its much good outside of that. theres far too many other factors involved such as rails and make of psu.

Tend to agree - it's flawed in some of the assumptions made too such as all 800FSB NW P4's draw the same power.

Out of curiosity, I stuck the spec of one of my rigs in that was bombing out of games/3DMark with insufficient power messages from the gfx driver and it came back with 270W - this rig had a 350W Antec in it...

[Applecrusher]

289

[0iD]

407W Bonkers!

Top linkage tho

[PMM]

Well funny enough i tested 2 PSU's the other day a cheapo one 250W
for a cruncher & a PCP&C 510Deluxe

The high spec PCP&P pulled an extra 30W of mains power over the cheap 250W

so PSU's play a factor in in th epower consumption a good bit as well.

[Flash]

Your Recommended Minimum Power Supply is 253Watts!!*

[Flash]

/edit 282W forgot about the fans and stuff

[IBM]

It's stupid to want the highest power requirement, but dammit, I'm pissed that OiD beat me....

....only 397....poo.....

[Howard]

303! Lol

[CrimsonAvenger]

Got 318W's here.............excellent link tho'

Cheers