Geek Speak — HabitableZone

Geek Speak » in reply to You might want a better power supply for that rig

Good point.

I'll look into the power draw, and see about that. I like to have a LOT of margin in power supply.

The good news is that a lot of components use less juice for more punch nowadays. The processors draw about 65 watts each when they're screaming, and so does the graphics card. Hard drives run about 9 watts each when they're reading and writing. Not sure what the motherboard pulls--there's some big cooling fins on some of those chips.

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