Tom's Hardware > Forum > Storage > Hard Disks > Can i run 4 Hdd with a 700 wats PSU

Can i run 4 Hdd with a 700 wats PSU

Forum Storage : Hard Disks - Can i run 4 Hdd with a 700 wats PSU

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Ask the community Add a reply
Word :    Username :           
 
kayvanblue   09-10-2009 at 11:04:38 PM

OCZ GameXStream 700 Watt SLI Ready Power Supply (this is what i have)


currently i am running : XFX Radeon 4890

one WD Caviar Blue 640 GB SATA Hard Drives

Samsung Dvd/cd player

AMD || X4 945


I need to know if i can power up my other Hdd (2 SATA and 2 IDE) with the above PSU ?

Thanks in advance

Add a reply
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
festerovic   09-10-2009 at 11:12:58 PM

Try something like this:
http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

But from my experience, I have 2 HDDs 2 burners, 2 4870s and a q6600 chip on a 750 watt psu, it runs fine.

Reply to festerovic
kayvanblue   09-10-2009 at 11:16:26 PM

Thank you very much for this great info

Reply to kayvanblue
mongox   09-10-2009 at 11:38:56 PM

Hey, love that PSU calculator!

I'm running a Gigabyte 785 board w/AMD Phenom X4 B50 (X2 550 Black unlocked), 1 SATA, CD/RW and as many as 6 IDE hard drives w/PCI IDE/RAID adaptor, external USB drive. Using 585W PSU.

The calculator shows I need 325 Watts.

Reply to mongox
festerovic   09-11-2009 at 01:13:16 AM

better go get some more GPUs to use that extra power, mongox ;)

Reply to festerovic
mongox   09-11-2009 at 02:01:42 AM

LOL - I'm using the built-in 4200 and even cut down the system RAM it's using. Not much of a power-user here.

 

Mainly Excel and some graphic design - Office 2003 and very old program called Micrographx and a few others.

 

I was running a AOpen board, simple vid card and up to 6 IDEs on it - all with a 350W and no problems. But I did worry a bit about it!

 

Only games I run are Age of Empires II - didn't seem to tax my old system with either 64 or 128 vid cards.


Message edited by mongox on 09-11-2009 at 02:02:55 AM
Reply to mongox
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Storage > Hard Disks > Can i run 4 Hdd with a 700 wats PSU
Go to:

There are 831 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 1.566 seconds
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
Related Topics
See all relatives topics
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them
  • 01:00 demondrumer won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 tehue won the Freshman badge
  • 12:11 mi1ez won the Watchman badge
  • 01:00 sighQ2 won the Freshman badge
  • 09:06 ulysses35 won the CPUs badge
  • 01:00 fleeb won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 jaymoney61 won the Freshman badge
  • 07:06 amdfangirl won the Watchman badge
  • 01:00 benw won the Freshman badge
  • 01:00 anmjoven won the Freshman badge