On 12/26/2013 08:17 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/25/2013 11:09 PM, g wrote: >> because you are upgrading a box, do consider upping power supply >> to at least 650 watt for load you will be adding. > > huh? my system uses about 200-250 watts actual line current running > full tilt, its a core i5-3570k overclocked to 4.2ghz, with 16gb ram, 1 > 250GB SSD and 2 3TB HDs... it also has a cuple PCI IO cards in it, and a > NVidia 640 GT video card. Its got a 450W PSU, which is plenty. > > the only people that need 600W+ PSUs are running two or more high end > video cards > > Keep in mind that PSU nominal power is not absolute power, especially if you buy those cheep ones. Chinese 450W will give 200-300W or similar. Chieftec is another thing. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant