Electrical power for a 164LX ?

[Mathieu MILLET]

Thanks for your answers.

Sincerely yours, Mathieu.

Le lundi 16 mai 2005 à 15:33 +0200, Steven Moix - Axianet.ch a écrit :
> I'm using a noname 300W power supply and it works perfectly well.
> 
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> From: "Hoover, Tony" <hoover at sal.ksu.edu>
> To: "Linux on Alpha processors" <axp-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 3:24 PM
> Subject: RE: Electrical power for a 164LX ?
> 
> 
> >A Power Supply for a computer will only draw as much as the computer is
> > using.   If you add up the power requirements for each of your components,
> > that will give you the baseline power supply that you should use, a larger
> > number isn't going to raise your electric bill.  That said, I don't think
> > I'd run an LX on less than a 300 watt power supply.  I believe that I am
> > using a 480 watt on my LX at home.
> >
> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: axp-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:axp-list-bounces at redhat.com] On
> > Behalf Of Mathieu Millet
> > Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 2:54 AM
> > To: axp-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Electrical power for a 164LX ?
> >
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > My electrical power unit for my Alpha has just died (well 24/7 during 7
> > years was good enough).
> >
> > I would like to replace it and since it is always turned on, I want to
> > pruchase a not too big power unit.
> >
> > My 164LX is equipped with 384 MB of RAM, two Ethernet network card, a
> > UltraWide2 SCSI Card on PCI 64bits and 2 SCSI hard-drive (at 7200RPM).
> >
> > Is a 200Watts power unit enough (that's what I had but sometimes I think
> > I had drive failure caused by electrical "congestion") ? Should I go
> > for a 250Watts unit ? even more ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any answer.
> > Sincerely yours, Mathieu MILLET.
> >
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