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| Oldskool:
Ultra appears to be a brand name. http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=599464&Sku=U10-9300%20B |
| maraxle:
--- Quote from: pointdablame on April 30, 2004, 07:59:29 pm ---While I agree that 300w would be sufficient, it depends on QUALITY OF POWER. Let me say that again.... QUALITY OF POWER. --- End quote --- Garbage in, garbage out. It doesn't matter how good your power supply is if you don't have it on a clean source of power, like a UPS. Even most generic power supplies will be fine if you give them nice, clean power to work with. |
| Santoro:
I'll go against the grain here. I have used many el cheapo PS's in the past with no problem, though for my main desktop I usually get a slightly better one just in case. FWIW. |
| pmc:
I like to use outboard powered USB hubs when using smaller power supplies. And don't go too nuts adding hard drives, CDROMs, DVD, PCI cards and all that. Anyone know an easy way to measure power usage so you know when it's time to upgrade? I have a couple of boxes (one is in my cabinet) that seem fine, but I don't really know how hard I'm pushing them. |
| maraxle:
My mini-itx board has a 55 watt power supply. Yup, you read that right. 55 watts. It has a 7200 rpm hard drive, an nVidia GeForce 4 card, a USB remote control, and a USB Playstation2 controller adapter (with 2 controllers attached), and runs fine. Even though that motherboard will suck up a lot more power than the mini-itx, you should be able to run 2 hard drives, a cd/dvd-rom/rw drive, a handful of USB devices, and a couple of extra PCI cards without even taxing that 300 watt power supply. |
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