Re: combining 2 power supplies

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:48:42 GMT, James Sweet <jamessweet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
put finger to keyboard and composed:

The fact of the matter is that if you have
a *quality* 300 or 350W power supply, it should run just about anything
you can fit in the computer. I've measured a number of computers with a
power analyzer and I have yet to see one which draws more than 250W from
the wall under full load, most typical single CPU computers are down
around 160-180W even with multiple hard drives.

I've measured ~175W for my single HDD, Athlon XP 2500+ system.

These are my idling and standby power consumption data:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt/msg/96de737e37e64526?dmode=source&hl=en

- Franc Zabkar
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