[CentOS] Centos-compatible motherboards

Fred Smith fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Thu Dec 26 22:54:57 UTC 2013


On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:34:42PM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> 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.

the PS I'll be using in this system is an existing PC POwer & Cooling
500W unit, which should be up to the task. (It has been running the
existing system for something like 3-4 years, with a Phenom-II X2 and
two HD and two optical drives, 24X7.)

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