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JungMin
Joined: 18 May 2005
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 Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject: Power Supply Help |
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I heard alot of people say that a systems power supply is key (the heart of a system)....but why?? Isn't power, power??
I have a cheap old system that I use as a media server type thing. I bought it used (would imagine it was a PC bang system before). I have added 3 more big hard drives to it.
Is there any reason to upgrade the power supply....not sure at the moment what it is, writing from school. If there are enough power cables, isn't that enough to worry about?? Probably not, but I don't know....
What you think Spliff?? |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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What is the Wattage Rating on your present Power supply?
Harddrive use a lot of power.
Does everything sound like it's spinning up alright? |
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JungMin
Joined: 18 May 2005
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, but I was having some issues with a year old hard drive.....bad sectors and the like. Sometime the drive wouldn't boot. Thought it was just bad drive, but now this has me thinking.....Could it be the power supply??
I'll check when i get home..... |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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Is it noisy? If it isn't bothering you in some way just let it go till it dies. Then upgrade it. Anyhow, hardly a big worry you can pick up a cheap 400 watt PSU at Yongson for 20,000.  Like you said, you're just using the rig to surf the net, listen to music and watch movies. |
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JungMin
Joined: 18 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| cbclark4 wrote: |
What is the Wattage Rating on your present Power supply?
Harddrive use a lot of power.
Does everything sound like it's spinning up alright? |
It's a 300 Watt PSU. It a 'GP' switched PSU.
So, with 4 hard drives, 2 ethernet cards, 500MB Ram, Intel Pentium 4 - 1.6 GHz, GeForce4 MX440 AGP x8 Graphics Card......is 300W enough?
I don't "use" this computer at all....it sits in the closet and just runs. It just acts as a server - media storage for XBMC, downloads bittorrents, and runs a few servers to access mp3's and stuff over the net. I use a laptop for everything else.
Is this enough power??? Everything is running, but maybe the hard drives aren't getting enough power and that is causing the errors??
Cheers. |
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