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

Thu Jan 3 00:43:52 UTC 2008
Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us>

On Wednesday 02 January 2008 06:38:26 pm Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> Hello all,
> Sorry for the OT thing.
> I'm helping a friend setting up a new box. It's a Pentium 4 with 430Watt
> power supply. He wants to plugin his old harddrives and DVD into the new
> box. The total will be: 3 harddrives, 1 DVD drive, 1 CDRW drive. In the box
> there are also 2 big fans.
>
> Is 430Watt enough?
>
> Thank you for your sharing.

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 

Dennis