[CentOS] OT: How many watts do I need?

Thu Jan 3 01:24:54 UTC 2008
MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com>

On Jan 2, 2008 4:43 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
>
> I would say its plenty big enough.  I ran for many years a amd 2600+ box with
> 2xhdd's 3 optical drives, neon on the case  a couple of fans, 1gb ram and a
> couple of pci cards  and i used a 350watt power supply for it
>
> I had another athlon64 3000+ system with 6 sata drives and 3 pci cards 1gb ram
> and two fans  that used a 350watt power supply also
>

Either you were lucky or I was not - I burned out a 430w power supply
with my rig:

CPU:    AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+ (2 x 2.0GHz)
M/B:    ECS NFORCE4M-A
K/M:    Logitech EX110 Cordless Desktop (keyboard & mouse)
ram:    2GB OCZ DDR2 800MHz (PC6400)
fdd:    Panasonic 3 1/4" 1.44Mb
hds:    160MB Maxtor PATA UDMA-133 & 120MB Maxtor PATA UDMA-133
sds:    300GB Seagate SATA-150/300 320GB WD SATA-150/300
dvd:    Emprex 16x DVD+/-RW/Dual-Layer
        Hammer 16x DVD+/-RW/Dual-Layer/DVD-RAM
vid:    geFORCE7100gs (nVidia) PCI-E x16
mod:    Agere Systems 56k WinModem (Lucent)
cap:    AverMedia Video Capture

It's a little different now (both DVD drives had to be replaced, for
different reasons), and I've been using a 500w PS for about six
months, no trouble.

mhr