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[CrazyyWolf]

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRr to all


How will it affect anything if I get a 230W case instead of a 250watt case/powerunit combo. Better yet .. what is the advantage of a 300watt case/powerunit combo?

[TaNG]

I guess its just that you can power more things therefore have more things in ur computer, and your computer will run reliably coz it ll always have enough power at its disposal. Also if you are a OC'er then it could advantge u as well.
I wouldnt know though as I m running everything in my sig. plus a CD-RW on a generic 230watt PSU.

[sbcanada]

If you have an AMD system over 1GHz, you should have at least 300 watts. If you don't have enough power, you will have many problems, mostly instability where the system will crash when under heavy load, or just booting up.

The power supply to get is dependent on your system. How fast the CPU is, how many cards and drives you plan to have... So what will your system contain?

[Luis G]

This is something that i've been asking myself without a logical explanation.

If we have a computer that consumes let's say....150W, and we plug a 300W psu and then a 200W, does a 300W consumes more electricity than a 200W??


[This message has been edited by Luis G (edited 01-13-2002).]

[Gomez Addams]

This is a good question. I think that standard switching power supplies that are used in computers will only consume as much power as need to drive the equipment. Mathematically this would be the power supplied divided by the efficiency of the PSU. The reason for this is that switching PSUs do not have any capacitive storage built into them.

In contrast, I have a 250W per channel amp for the subwoofers in my home stereo and this thing has enormous capacitors. When I turn the power switch off it takes more than two minutes to fully discharge.

[thevenin877]

Luis G the 300w and 200w rated psu's will use roughly the same electricity,they've different ratings ie: 300w can supply more power than 230w psu

[Luis G]

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