[mythtv-users] Help with new Video Card (power supply requirements)

[Paulin]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:

> On 3/12/2010 15:19, Paulin wrote:
>
>> Anyway I was getting ready to install it and one of the requirements on
>> the box says minimum 450W power supply.
>>
>
> That card only requires ~50W for itself.  Unless you have a rather high end
> machine (or an old Pentium 4), don't expect the rest of frontend hardware to
> pull more than 100W.  If you're running a backend as well, tack on maybe
> 5-10W for each tuner, and 20-25W for hard drive spinup.
>
>
>  So my question is my thinking correct, in that, I can't use this card
>> because my power supply is maxed at 300w.
>>
>
> Check the individual rails on the supply. Ideally, it should be able to
> provide nearly all that power on the 12V lines. Recent hardware uses
> primarily 12V, and older supplies tend to lack 12V power.
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So then you saying this will most likely be safe and fine.  My box is a Dell
Insperion with 2 hd recording card (backend).

Since this box is on 24 x 7 I just don't want to risk overheating or a fire.
 As you can tell this is not my specialty.

Steve
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