Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 08:17:49 10/17/02
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On October 16, 2002 at 08:23:32, Terje Vagle wrote: i have the thunderk7 motherboard. it requires a special powersupply 460 watts. It is E-ATX. Not normal ATX. Not a P4 power supply either. I advice for everyone who uses other dual K7 motherboards for example a power supply from Enermax 550 Watt. Perhaps the 430 watt works too. I wouldn't take the risk. Something 500+ Watt works for sure :) AMD advices *at least* 400+ Watts power supply. However if you have a load of devices you sure need more. A single K7 chip already eats up to like 65 watts. A single P4 chip eats up to 92 watts. So just 2 chips are already like 130 watt. Not to mention to what the rest eats. coolers, harddisks, and the dual chipsets... This additional power which the latest cpu's are eating is not so very nice IMHO. Though it is logical, it is not a good thing at all. Of course a newer generation it shortly gets less, but then i order to compete with other manufacturers they again pump more watt through the cpu and it is again eating more than the previous generation then. Some logics is there. Each new generation tends to have more transistors... ...giving more speed to the cpu... But the dual k7 i have here makes because of all that air cooling a lot more noise than the old P3 dual i have. Of course the k7 dual is 2.5 times faster faster than my dual P3-800 :) >Hi, > >What kind of powersupply ( how powerful ) do you need for running >a dual system? > >Is 200-250w power enough? > >Thanks for your response. > >Regards, > >Terje Vagle
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