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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. > > - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org Next Linux User Group meet : March 7th : 3pm, Shoreline Cafe Paignton -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmXGe0ACgkQaggq1k2FJq0FHQCeMTyVvaP43+pAZU2ygfQswRZl iXMAn0Ozk4+dbctV7qgDCIjEXZRN2Ojt =YCI8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html