Power Supply requirments Check

[davidstone28]

Jeez.

Know your amperage per rails kiddies.

[ikonia]

took your advice guys....600 watt top spec PSU ordered.

thanks for all your input

[Butcher]

Looking at 400-450 with everything running there. any decent 450W PSU with a solid 12V rail would have done.

[Howard]

Exactly

[aidanjt]

I might make a suggestion here, If you have a second box laying around, anything like a PIII/Athlon or greater, you might consider moving those IDE hard drives and SCSI burner and tape drive into it and offload some of the pressure from your new PSU, then something like a Tagen 420Watt would be more than enough to power your system, and you can deal with all your data over a crossover network cable. It would also solve a heating issue with all those extra drives crammed in

[ikonia]

moving stuff into another machine sort of defeats the object of making my workstation more flexible.

I run a few other machines 24/7 for their functions but this is just a workstation.

acessing in use date over the lan all the time wouldn't really be great

Also reading the docs on the video card is recommends at least an 480 watt PSU, so with all my other stuff I thought it better to go overkill than strain anything.

thanks for all the info

[Butcher]

Heh, that's just a scam to get people to buy expensive PSUs. I run dual 6800GTs and my box does fine on a 480W psu. A 6600 about 1/2 the power of one of my GFX cards...

[ikonia]

surly thats just wrong then, they can't be allowed to advertise that !

[aidanjt]

gigabit lan would provide more than enough bandwidth for throuhput, it would even exceed the speed of your harddrives by far. But of course its your choice at the end of the day, its just something I would do in your position

[alterion]

just so long as it wasn't top spec q-tec 600w lol

[Butcher]

surly thats just wrong then, they can't be allowed to advertise that !

It's a recommendation, not a requirement, so they can. :/

[ikonia]

alterion I'm not running gig lan, 100 meg. You are still correct that that would be enough but buffering data from the lan is slower than reading it direct and long data transfers slow up the lan for the real purposes, I take your point but having to power on 2 machines to take a standalone backup for example, or having the performance of what your doing depend on a.) the lan b.) what other machines on the lan are doing c.) other machines being powered on when I've spent out some good cash for a top notch local work station isn't really what I'm looking for.

Butcher I wonder what would happen if I complained to the card company with a lower than 480W PSU - would they still support the card ?

[Butcher]

If the card was faulty then they'd have to. However, having enough power to run the card is your responsibility not theirs.