Interesting "Tool" from a site I'd not heard of pr

Cannyone · Post by **Cannyone** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:40 am

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.

bigblockmatt · Post by **bigblockmatt** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:46 am

ya, already posted here... http://forums.legitreviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=5974
good tool though.

Post by **dicecca112** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:31 pm

moved from news to a more appropriate spot.

Cannyone · Post by **Cannyone** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:00 pm

bigblockmatt wrote:ya, already posted here... http://forums.legitreviews.com/viewtopic.php?t=5974
good tool though.

ah okes! I had never seen it before, and I wasn't a LR forum member then.

stev · Post by **stev** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:17 pm

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.

Cannyone · Post by **Cannyone** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:48 pm

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.

Post by **dicecca112** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:58 pm

just remember this is an estimate and not exact, it over calculates high

Cannyone · Post by **Cannyone** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:58 pm

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.