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Interesting "Tool" from a site I'd not heard of pr
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:40 am
by Cannyone
Well I've been going through some issues with my power supplys. And I discovered this
Power Supply Calculator. It seems like a fairly useful means of figuring out what range of p/s one might choose. So I thought I might give it some exposure.
I have no afiliation with extreme outervision, hadn't even heard of them prior to this morning. But please feel free to tell me what you think.
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:46 am
by bigblockmatt
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:31 pm
by dicecca112
moved from news to a more appropriate spot.
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:00 pm
by Cannyone
ah okes! I had never seen it before, and I wasn't a LR forum member then.
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:17 pm
by stev
After filling in all of the data, the answer shows 283W for my system. It looks like I got room to grow to reach 450W.
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:48 pm
by Cannyone
It told me that I should have 514W of p/s and mine is a 550W.
Then again I can't add much more... I sure won't go Crossfire.
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:58 pm
by dicecca112
just remember this is an estimate and not exact, it over calculates high
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:58 pm
by Cannyone
dicecca112 wrote:just remember this is an estimate and not exact, it over calculates high
Ok, that's good to know. In the future I might indeed try to use a second video card in one of my systems. But that's only if ATI actually finishes their work on using they GPUs for general purpose computing / physics processing. Since that might entail use of Vista and an R600 GPU (rumored to consume 200W by itself) as the primary, with an X1900 series as the secondary. I think that I will be forced to upgrade my P/S again!
I would allways prefer to err on the side of having more power than actually required.