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diezel · 27th March 2008, 18:00

Hi Monty

Before finalising on the installation I had completely installed the PC and tested the Wattage used. Its surprising to know but the whole system with a movie running was not pulling more that 100W of power. When I went ahead and tested my Gaming PC, which has Intel Quad Core Extreme with 8800GT graphics card, Razor Baracuda, Corsair Thunder 4 GB RAM, it pulled a maximum of 175W with Crysis running on it. That gave me enough confidence that 160W will be more than enough to power up the gear. Anyways, point to note is that, the display is seperately powered.

So all you folks who have old hardware in their closets, feel free to pull em out and start putting them in good use again.

cheers

27th March 2008, 18:00	#164 (permalink)
diezel Newbie Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Pune Posts: 29	Hi Monty Before finalising on the installation I had completely installed the PC and tested the Wattage used. Its surprising to know but the whole system with a movie running was not pulling more that 100W of power. When I went ahead and tested my Gaming PC, which has Intel Quad Core Extreme with 8800GT graphics card, Razor Baracuda, Corsair Thunder 4 GB RAM, it pulled a maximum of 175W with Crysis running on it. That gave me enough confidence that 160W will be more than enough to power up the gear. Anyways, point to note is that, the display is seperately powered. So all you folks who have old hardware in their closets, feel free to pull em out and start putting them in good use again. cheers