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James Sweet
- Jan 1, 1970
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Dave said:But I don't belive that 250 W drawn from the mains is a likely maximum now.
I was doing some calculuations the other day based on a pair of
Opterons. According to AMD, they are about 100 W each. A very mediocre
graphics card is probably 30 W. Disks take more when they spin up.
350 W is probably adequate for most things I would agree. My main PC (I
don't use PCs much) has a 235 W power supply in it, but a pair of 450
MHz Pentiums and a 10,000 rpm SCSI disk. That seems to be OK
A more elegant solution if there are multiple disks might be to build a
timer that delays the starts on them, as the power when running is
probalby only half that when starting.
Personally, I think I'd just rather buy a bigger psu - they are not that
expensive now.
How many people have a pair of Opterons though? I thought we were
talking consumer PCs?