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| me wrote: | yes well I do turn mine off when not using it as a new harddrive motherboard and vid card are usually cheaper than the electricity bill constant running amounts to,
after a couple of years a new cpu/mobo and vid card are usually in the pipeline for me anyway,
my harddrives have lasted well,
even have some second hand ones in use in spare machines that are about 7 years old, even got one ten years old on a shelf that I might drill out for the magnets,
the gaming rig that has a 500 watt psu, now I would not like to leave that on constantly,
I use a lower powered pc with a 300 watt psu for watching films or googling, I dont mind leaving that pc on for long periods when needed but leaving it running unattended seems a waste,
if your running a dedicated game server maybe something like that but not my idea of fun, only would do that from a firms pc that was on all the time anyway 
new harddrives are getting such large capacity for low expense that old ones after a few years are not worth the expense of constant running to avoid spin up/down wear,
500 gig external drives are even not too expensive now,
but thats my preference, turn off as I update pc's every now and then,
with the money I save on electricity bills I can afford to buy new ones as well,
still...its horses for courses, everyone has their own best way and this is just my personal preference |
Just to clear it up, a system with a 500w PSU doesn't necessarily pull more power than one with a 300w, the system only pulls as much as it needs, the wattage rating is just the max.
My system has a 550w PSU and only pulls around 40w idle. Computers are efficient these days and have a lot of power saving features, no reason to shut themdown.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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yes I know that but the 500 watt psu has an 64 bit mobo with an 8600 geforce ready for another 8600 geforce to be fitted in an SLI mobo,
so that is going to pull a bit more power than the 300 watt psu just ticking over cos that is the nature of the beast,
I guarantee that 500 watt psu system with 2 geforce 8's will suck more juice than the old 300 watt psu system with a single geforce 5 card in it for googling,
otherwise why would the minimum spec for a 8600 card demand a 400 watt psu minimum
anyway I will still turn the bloody thing off lol
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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| me wrote: | yes I know that but the 500 watt psu has an 64 bit mobo with an 8600 geforce ready for another 8600 geforce to be fitted in an SLI mobo,
so that is going to pull a bit more power than the 300 watt psu just ticking over cos that is the nature of the beast,
I guarantee that 500 watt psu system with 2 geforce 8's will suck more juice than the old 300 watt psu system with a single geforce 5 card in it for googling,
otherwise why would the minimum spec for a 8600 card demand a 400 watt psu minimum
anyway I will still turn the bloody thing off lol |
Right just clearing it up for others that read, it was kind of misleading the way you first wrote it.
Considering that the clothes dryer pulls about 5600w, and the heater in my room pulls 1500w, 40w seems pretty negligible to me.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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| suck a cheetahs dick wrote: | | me wrote: | yes I know that but the 500 watt psu has an 64 bit mobo with an 8600 geforce ready for another 8600 geforce to be fitted in an SLI mobo,
so that is going to pull a bit more power than the 300 watt psu just ticking over cos that is the nature of the beast,
I guarantee that 500 watt psu system with 2 geforce 8's will suck more juice than the old 300 watt psu system with a single geforce 5 card in it for googling,
otherwise why would the minimum spec for a 8600 card demand a 400 watt psu minimum
anyway I will still turn the bloody thing off lol |
Right just clearing it up for others that read, it was kind of misleading the way you first wrote it.
Considering that the clothes dryer pulls about 5600w, and the heater in my room pulls 1500w, 40w seems pretty negligible to me. |
yes your right 40 watts idle is negligable is ok,
but every time the system kicks up for any process the higher end gear will suck more power,
even idle windows does housekeeping and the cpu usage will jump up, then you might have automatic updates, same again cpu usage will jump up,
try opening task manager,
put it on the performance tab,
leave your mouse and keyboard alone and it should stay around zero usuage, maybe jump to 1 or 2 percent now and then for background stuff,
now spin your mouse around the screen, jumps up quite a bit for something as simple as that dont it,
now open a folder or the fax picture viewer and it jumps a bit again,
even typing on the keyboard will make more cpu usage
during the course of a year how many thousands of housekeeping processes will kick in while you leave it idle and it goes way above that 40 watts,
anyway there is no problem with you keeping it on as thats the way you like it and probably need to keep it on for bussiness or personal reasons,
just saying that against the potential cost of replacement hardware its more economical for me to turn it off and where I live it aint so cheap to use electricity and its got to cost less to have stuff turned of unless you really need to leave it on,
but I was not critising as you can see from quoting myself
| me wrote: | | still...its horses for courses, everyone has their own best way and this is just my personal preference |
like I said just a personal preference that takes care of my needs and the way you use your pc's is the best way for you
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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hey if i have a 500 watt psu do you think i could handle 2 SLI 8800GTs?
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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| that's kind of pushing it.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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what about just 1 8800gt?
i'd have a 2.5ghz at about 2.8 too
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Madman340000 wrote: | what about just 1 8800gt?
i'd have a 2.5ghz at about 2.8 too |
You need 26 amps on the +12V rails for 1 8800GT, 36 amps for SLI I believe.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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so just one will probably be fine... right?
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Madman340000 wrote: | | so just one will probably be fine... right? |
It will run fine.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Madman340000 wrote: | | hey if i have a 500 watt psu do you think i could handle 2 SLI 8800GTs? |
If it's a quality PSU you should be good.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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What are the PSU specifications, just to be sure? If you don't know, what PSU you got?
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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shitty psu, came with case.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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Then I wouldn't count on running SLI, 500Watts is pushing it, NVIDIA recommends 600Watts PSU.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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| If it's a generic PSU then definitely not, I wouldn't recommend even running one off of one of those.
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