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Re: [LUG] hardware suggestions

 

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M.Blackmore wrote:
> Power factor!! My old one is a miserable .6, one of the modern ones is
> over .8, the old one is on a 14 year old Dell 400mhz used as a file
> server with a couple of sata add in cards and sata disks (fine for the
> low grade use it receives at home where speed isn't an issue).


Ok, I don't know what you mean by .6 and .6,  is this watts, volts ???
anyway I was asking as I was under the impression that as newer
computers have 400W power supplies and above i needed a new one,

So i take it I can get a p4 board (or similar) working with 250W,  as
long as i don't have a meaty graphics card,

Paul
> 
> That box consumes 90-110 watts on the killawatt meter, I really should
> replace it with a 10 watt consumption mini itx board I've got and get a
> modern psu with a high pf!
> 
> On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 12:33 +0000, Paul Sutton wrote:
>> but the PSU in
>> the case is only 250 W.
> 
> 


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