Re: ANOTHER PSU question...

PSU wattage ???
Have trawled through site after site, tried several different "wattage calculators" that give wildly different figures, seemingly because they want you to click on a "buy a psu here" link !!

Anyhooo! ...can someone give me a more accurate idea for watts, for ordinary desktop midi-tower innards as follows. (I know that if one goes too "cheap" one could end up with a 250watt psu badged as a 500watt etc. so I'll probably buy and ANTEC.),
....and I most likely will want to add an IDE pci card and another IDE hd, at a later date.

ATX Conroe865PE motherboard with Realtek LAN and sound on it.
Pentium D925 (2x3ghz - 2x2mb L2 cache)
3 sticks of DDR400
Nvidia 6200 AGP card
pci - Creative SB Audigy 2
pci - Intel K56 flex. data/fax/voice modem, (I think that's still in there!)
2 x 7200 IDE hd's
1 x floppy drive
4 x 80mm fans
1 x dvd r/w drive
1 x cd r/w drive
Occasionally, I plug in my old Canoscan N650OU scanner (UBS powered),

....and of course, some extra capacity but, not too much !!!

TIA, regards,

Richard


"RJK" <notatospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23cx53IZxHHA.4736@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi, I'm really out of date with hardware !

I'm about to cobble together an 865PE motherboard with a Pentium D925 on it,
...motherboard has a AGP slot so that I can use my old graphics card,
....Antec PSU I've been ogling has a 6 pin pci-e supply, does that just dangle unused (alright then "gets tied up":-)
http://www.antec.com/uk/productDetails.php?ProdID=04644
In other words, will PSU be okay if that 6 pin power supply is unused, just like one can tie-up the 4 pin cpu power supply if not used on older boards/cpu's that don't need it 4pin power.

regards, Richard

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