Let me tell you first guys that this is one of the best sites I visit to find answers about computers. My question is: Is there any place I can go and see a list of the diferent wattages that consume the peripherals in a pc like hard disks, web cams, dvdroms, pci cards, etc...? I think I'm, having problems with my power supply so I want to be able to calculate the power consumption I have and buy a new one.
Thanks a lot.
Laszlo

Sadly I've never seen a site that displays watts for every device since they can differ between manufactures. ( motherboards, type and number of "expansion" slots,etc,etc)



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Well, I don't think that they can have a lot of diference between one motherboard and the other one, maybe a couple of watts, i know that a motherboard for a pIII consumes like 22W, so if they are from diferent manufacturers maybe can go to 24W or to 25? What about the other peripherals?

Thanks

Go here: PC power and cooling (http://www.pcpowercooling.com/maxpc/index_cases.htm) for some general numbers.


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I just make a "guestimation" of the total power requirement based on: the processor, the number of hard drives, the number of other drives, the amount of RAM, and the number of expansion boards.

It most often comes down to this: get a quality 300 Watt supply. AMD (http://www1.amd.com/duron/npower) provides a nice list. I'm assuming your machine uses an ATX specification power supply; the cost of a good 300W is usually just slightly more than a good 250 watter.


[This message has been edited by kenja (edited 06-28-2001).]