[PLUG] terabyte upgrade

[Eric Wheeler]

On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 12:52 -0700, Daniel Herrington wrote:
> 350W Antec Basiq PSU
> MSI motherboard w/ onboard video
> 1.2 gb ram
> 2 300 gb Drives
> 1 36 GB dirve
> 1 DVD burner

Power supplies run near optimal at ~80% of specification.  Running them
well below spec wastes lots of power and heat in switching.  (For
example, using a 750W supply for a 150W Celeron system silly---and
wasteful.)  If there are any EE's on the list, perhaps they can give a
better explanation of what is going on...

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Eric Wheeler
President
eWheeler, Inc.

www.eWheeler.net
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PO Box 86710 
Portland, OR 97286



> 
> Thanks.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:20 PM, m0gely <m0gely at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Quentin Hartman wrote:
> > >
> > > > If you have other power-hungry components (most notably high-end video
> > > > cards) you will probably need more than that. Anything over 500 watts
> > is
> > > > overkill though unless you know for sure you need it, and even then,
> > you
> > > > usually don't. As a point of reference, I have an upper-mid-end /
> > > > lower-high-end gaming machine (Major components include: single Raptor
> > > HDD,
> > > > AMD X2 6000+ (125W TDP), Nvidia 9600GT video) that draws about 300
> > Watts
> > > > under load.
> > >
> > > Check out the comment by BikeHelmet:
> > >
> > > http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1241585&cid=28050629
> > >
> >
> > Yeah, my 6000+ draws a lot of power since it is the first-gen at that speed
> > level. I've considered swapping out the processor for a newer lower-power
> > one and a good 80+ PSU (probably 500 watt-ish) and see what a difference it
> > makes. I almost never use this machine anymore though, so I've decided not
> > to bother. I think I've used it all of 10 hours in the last 6 months. I
> > just
> > don't have time for gaming lately, and everything else I do works fine on
> > laptops.
> >
> > QH
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