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Originally Posted by glatt
I went to the Asus site and looked up that video card. 225w
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If his computer and motherboard are consuming 600 watts, then also install a slot to toast bread.
Computer assemblers typically have no hardware knowledge. So we simplify things to keep them off technical help lines. Most all computers consume at maximum 200 watts. And often average around 100. So we tell them it consumes 300 watts. Since a power supply must be selected by amps for each DC voltage, well, that is too complicated for computer assemblers. So we make sure each DC voltage can provide enough current by doubling what the computer really needs. Now we have told them they need a 600 watt supply.
Then penis size makes a more manly system when they get a 650 or 1000 watt supply. Many computer assemblers even believe the 1000 watt supply is more reliable - because its number is bigger. They believe because they feel.
All for a computer that mostly consumes 100 watts and rarely more than 200 watts.
To keep these computer assemblers off the help lines, we tell them they need 225 watts for a video card that really only consumes typically 80 watts with short bursts that might be as much as 120 watts.
How large are power supplies in responsibly designed system by engineers? View numbers for Dell and HP. Typically around 225 watts for a system that has more than enough power for everything you might add to it. But the important number was never a supply's watts. The important number was always amps for each DC voltage (ie 3.3, 5, 12V).
When did Lite-On start making DVD drives? This was an LED manufacturer.