- Joined
- Feb 21, 2003
My Antec SmartPower PSU is rated 300W, with combined 3.3v+5v at 220W (no, that is not a misprint).
HOWEVER,
I am powering an optical drive (soon to be two), one HD, 2 case fans, a chipset fan, HSF (obviously) and a single VGA card (everything else in onboard).
It takes 2.9v to run my Micron PC2700 at a measly 169 mhz, and 1.94 to run my Athlon XP at 2 ghz.. otherwise i get Prime95 errors.
Seems odd I need this much juice to run these items.
MBM shows 4.84 on +5V and 12.16 on +12v rails.
Should I look for something with more kick?
HOWEVER,
I am powering an optical drive (soon to be two), one HD, 2 case fans, a chipset fan, HSF (obviously) and a single VGA card (everything else in onboard).
It takes 2.9v to run my Micron PC2700 at a measly 169 mhz, and 1.94 to run my Athlon XP at 2 ghz.. otherwise i get Prime95 errors.
Seems odd I need this much juice to run these items.
MBM shows 4.84 on +5V and 12.16 on +12v rails.
Should I look for something with more kick?
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