Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: I Shooter on June 28, 2008, 07:34:49 PM
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I am in the getting all the stuff together for a Media center PC. The case I picked out has a 400 watt psu. I think that is to small. I have calculated that I will need 500 watts so I plan to buy a 600 watt psu. Here is what I came up with.
Motherboard Intel DG33TLM 75
Processor Intel core 2 Quad Q6600 105
Memory Corsar DDR2 4GB 60
Hard drive 2 500 GB hard drives 60
Optical drive Sony 35
Integrated Video 15
Video card 100
PCI card Internet card 15
PCI E card TV card 25
USB Mouse & keyboard 5
Fans 5
total 500
I think I will have to go with the 600 watts. Any thoughts?
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Thanks for some help. Ummm I would go with like a 450 or something 600 sounds a little high.
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I thought that you always needed to go over what was calculated. Did I make a mistake in what I calculated? If so where? May be I only need 550 watts. I am new at this. I just don't wont to under power the system.
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You may as well grab a 600W, that leaves ample room for expansion in future.
You can never have too much power, just buy a good brand or it'll be worthless.
I would also never personally go with a PSU included with a case unless it has great reviews, I prefer to pick my own.
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I was going to go with Antec case and PSU. I don't know *censored* I thought they made good stuff. What would you recommend?
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Have you got a link to the specific one?
Antec do make good cases and PSUs actually, if the power is ample I'd go for it.
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I just thought that it would be too much power an possibly overload the system.
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You can never have too much power squall.
The power supply can supply up to the stated amount in the best case scenario.
A high power rating means it can supply more power, it doesn't mean it supplies that all the time and overloads components.
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I thought it had.
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I will go with the 600. Thanks for your time.
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Good choice then, should give you enough power to aid in running other little goodies if you connect them.
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You're more than welcome.
If you have any more questions feel free to post back.
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I have ran into a problem. The case I am going to use, the Antec NSD1380 has only a 350 watt PSU. I thought I could replace it with a 600 watt PSU, no such luck. They don't make one for that unit. I have to use that case because of the space it has to fit in in the travel trailer. The shelf where I have to put it is only 15" deep and the NSD1380 is the only case I cold find that is only 13.2"deep. Most cases are between 15"to17". If I could find a wide short case that wold be great. I thought I could cut back on the watts *censored* I can't get it below the 350 watts. If I replace the CPU with a duel core I will save 40 watts, then only use 2GB of memory I can save 30 more. Then if I use a smaller video card I am told that I could save as much as 70 watts. That gives me 360 watts on a 350 watt PSU. Do any of you know of a short wide case that has more power? Short of hacking the case up to make the PSU fit I don't know what to do.
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Won't the 600 watt ps fit?
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Whose PSU's are you looking at ? ?
Have you checked a mini ATX PSU ? ?
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The case is an Antec NSK 1380. It has a 350 watt PSU that is made just for that case. The case is a cube case or SFF if you like. It is made for MATX motherboards. I used this case to build my wife's computer. It is a nice case. It is the smallest case I could find that would fit where I have to place it. The only problem is that I can't find a 600 watt PSU to fit in the case with out cutting the case up. They say that the PSU is ATX, *censored* I can't find a 600watt unit to replace it. So the question was do you know of a short, 13" deep case that I could use that will take a 600 watt PSU?
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You're not listening.....Clik Here (http://www.directron.com/psu.html) and scroll down to where it explains the differences in size in the 3 types of PSU's....then you only need to decide on a manufacturer as most good ones make all 3 sizes.
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Patio, I did listen. Infact I picked up a Micro ATX and it didn't work. If I turned it up to where the fan and electrical adaptor came out the top I cold have used it. I will try and explain. The power supply in the case is 6"X6" and 3"deep. The 6X6 area holds the fan and it comes out the back. The power adaptor comes out the 3" side from a cord and attaches to the back of the case over the expansion slots. From the back of the power supply to the drive cage is only 1.5" so the PSU can't be any more than 3"deep or I couldn't hook up the drives or if it was more than 4.5" deep it will hit the drive bay. The only way the 400watt unit wold fit was if I turned it till the fan and electrical adaptor were turned till they came out the top of the case. There are a lot of PSU that are 6X6 and the fan is in that area but they don't have the electrical adaptor come out be side the fan in the 6X6 area. I hope I got that across this time. Any way I have taken the quad back and picked up a core 2 duo. That saved me 40 watts. The video card that I am using only uses 36 watts. I will only be using 2gigs of memory that saves me 30 more. I have been told that by changing out the motherboard and not using RAID I can get well under the 350watt limit of the power supply. Thank you for your time.
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You're Welcome and Welcome Aboard !