I'm thinking about buying a Shuttle SD32G5 to run a Core 2 Duo E6600. I was looking at the specs and it says it only contains a 250W PSU. I've not really been keeping up with hardware developments over the last few years but 250W doesn't seem like much....
Will it be enough? I won't be running games/graphics apps just labview/data acquisition software.
Thanks for your help!
Flibble Wibble
Other info:
System will also run a Western Digital 10kRPM raptor
2Gb RAM
CD drive
and 2 low power devices in PCIe slots.
It had
P4 3.0Ghz Northwood core
DVDR drive
multi card reader (3.5 slot)
ATI 9800 Pro vid card
Seagate 300gb hard drive
2gb ddr400 generic ram
I'd say for normal usage it would be fine. Mine ran a bit hot but only when gaming.
I only ran into PSU problems last year when i upgraded to a ATI x800GTO. I ended up using a PSU mounted externally. I run the same setup now with an x1950Pro and another PSU mounted external.
in short Id say its fine if you arent gaming since you cant run a high end video card on it.
Well it depends on how much wattage there is on each rail.
I don't for sea no problems as a E6600 is not a power hog and neither is anything else you have in that system.
You would most likely even get away with a 7600GT (but first get the 12volt wattage)
Also note that most power supplies are going putting more of there total power on the 12 volt rail as unlike in the old day most things use the 12 volt rails.
An example is FSP has a 350 watt psu with 16 amps and another with 24(i think its 24, too lazy to go look. dual rails 18 and 6 or something). They did this by just cutting down on 3.3 and 5 volt power(it seems stupidly low but it works). and so far that psu has been running a system just fine.
So your 250 can have 50%(10 ish amps) of its power delivered to the 12 volt rail or 90(18.5 ish amps) and anywhere in between. it was up to Shuttle.
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