Hello, On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 06:58, Clayton wrote: [..]
I have a 650W on mine, and am seriously considering going to a 1000W.
:-P I have too many hard drives, and yup, the nVidia cards draw a LOT. ...
I recently added another drive to the box with my 8600 GT card and I was concerned about power, but when I looked into it, I discovered hard drives, even 10,000 RPM drives, barely sip at the power supply, while video cards just gulp!
Well it *does* add up, the drives in my "not quite new anymore auxiliary number crunching and storage box" suck about 270 W during spinup ... :) The 1 TB drive I last bought is specced as: spinup 27.6 W seek 13.4 W read/wr 9.5 W idle 8.2 W standby 1.2 W sleep 1.2 W that one is a bit hungry at spinup, but there's nary a one using less than 20 W at spinup. AFAIR the other values of most drives of most manufacturers are in the same range as above. And which is more than the video card of my main box uses: 5.5 W (1.1A @ 5V) and has a bare naked chip with not even a cooler. Go figure. -dnh -- The more stupid the rules, the more fun one can have by following them _exactly_ to the letter. -- Alexander Schreiber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org