[mythtv-users] Awsome Case For Myth Frontend!

David Rees drees76 at gmail.com
Thu May 3 22:32:37 UTC 2007


On 5/3/07, Rich West <Rich.West at wesmo.com> wrote:
> There are some good sites that perform reviews and gather stats on all
> sorts of hardware, including power supplies.  The better the quality of
> a power supply, the more efficient it is.  Those cheap power supplies
> tend to provide only 65% of their rated output, with a lot of the waste
> being excess heat.

Price != Quality, so be careful. A great site to read reviews of PSUs
is silentpcreview.com.

As others mentioned, the vast majority of systems don't even get close
to 200w of power draw, let alone the 500-600w+ that some PSUs are
built to handle these days. Unless you have some monster of a system,
a 300-350w PSU is more than enough. Also keep in mind that the more
your PSU is underutilized, the less efficient it will be.

-Dave


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