Son Goku
No lover of dogma
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gonaads said:Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't the whole idea behind "modular" was for ease of install/setup? You don't connect the sections of wiring that you do not need. This way there is less wiring floating around inside your box. So there is a cleaner install, better air flow and all around neatness.
Yes/No?
Yeah, I think that was the thinking behind it. In my case, it was "if I could just get the stinkin wire outa there, I could have removed that bad/dieing drive years ago..." The extra wires can add more clutter, and also make space (for working in there/cooling, even tighter).
As to my system, I'll give somewhat of an idea, albeit not having SLI video (long ago I had Voodoo2 SLI on 1 card, aka the Quantum 3D Obsidian 2, but those didn't draw the power of todays cards...). The Radeon 9600 pulls a bit less then the newer gfx cards, I'm rather certain. But:
- Athlon 64 3500+ OCed at 210 MHz for the HTT, (was 217 MHz for the HTT, with my older XMS 2400 DDR, prior to my getting 1 GB of Corsair XMS Pro 400). The CPU is running at 2,310.01 MHz according to wCPUid... Default is 2.2 GHz
- 2 10,000 rpm SCSI drives (Seagate Cheetah)
Edit: Rather then estimate, I'll give Seagate's power info on the model numbers:
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/scsi/st39102lw.html
POWER DISSIPATION (watts/BTUs) Active ____13.8/47
Idle ______11.2/38
POWER REQUIREMENTS: +12V START-UP (amps) _1.7
+12V TYPICAL (amps) __0.60 idle
+5V START-UP (amps) __0.96
+5V TYPICAL (amps) ___0.80 idle
IDLE (watts) _________12
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/scsi/st336704lw.html
POWER DISSIPATION (watts/BTUs) Active ____/
Idle ______10.91/37.2
POWER REQUIREMENTS: +12V START-UP (amps) _2.2
+12V TYPICAL (amps) __0.58 idle
+5V START-UP (amps) __0.86
+5V TYPICAL (amps) ___0.79 idle
IDLE (watts) _________
- 2 internal CD/DVD drives, one of which is a CD burner (The external DVD burner doesn't matter, cause it has it's own power transformer)
- About 4 PCI boards, from the SCSI card (don't use IDE drives at all), NIC (prob with the integrated NIC, nForce 3, and drivers in winXP, though it works fine in Linux), DVD decoder card, and probably one other PCI board
- 5 USB devices, including a scanner, that has no power adapter, so draws all power from the USB port, at the 500 mA maximum The remainder pull about 100 mA a piece for the most part...
- 8 to 10 fans case fans, a few about mid-range in terms of RPM...
Hadn't added all the power consumption up, though looking at it, I do know my old 400 watt PSU was deficient on the 12 volt rail for just the A64 alone, as it put more on the 3.3 and 5 v rails then some... I'm running about 40 processes now (just in the browser), including about 4 or 5 folding like apps, under BOINC, just to give an idea what's running here
Sazar said:But you are introducing additional resistances and therefore making the supply of power less "clean".
Actually, this does make some sense, that it could add a bit of resistence, come to think of it... How great it would be, I'm not sure off the top of my head though...
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