Electrical power for a 164LX ?

Mon May 16 13:33:53 UTC 2005

I'm using a noname 300W power supply and it works perfectly well.

----- Original Message ----- 
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 ?
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>
> 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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> Mathieu MILLET
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