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PSU Wattage

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PSU Wattage

Postby admin » Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:50 pm

ON8NO wrote:Hi there,

I have a 450 Watt PSU. I'm running idle on 50 Watts, yeah I know, crappy pc, no extra fans and no cool stuff.
When I game it goes up to 170 - 200 Watts.
I recently bought a new case, CM Storm Scout, the one with 3 fans. 1x 140 LED, 1x 140, 1x 120 LED.

Now the thing is; can my PSU handle those 3 fans, and maybe even 2 or 3 more?
And can it handle an SSD to along with those 3 fans?

Don't really know if my PSU is 80+ certified, the brand is kinda, unknown.

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Re: PSU Wattage

Postby admin » Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:51 pm

slugbug wrote:Shouldn't be a problem. Fans don't use much power at all.
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Re: PSU Wattage

Postby admin » Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:52 pm

crowTrobot wrote:Yep, very small, single digits around 1W or 3W, even large 200mm LED ones.
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Re: PSU Wattage

Postby admin » Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:52 pm

ON8NO wrote:All right, thanks guys.

Well then I'll get a lot of molex splitters because my PSU only has 3 molex connectors. And my motherboard can't handle a single case fan, fails
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Re: PSU Wattage

Postby admin » Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:53 pm

funkindrago wrote:Yep, should be good to go. At least you will have a decent case to start from when you start getting other components
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Re: PSU Wattage

Postby admin » Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:54 pm

ON8NO wrote:Haha yeah I know nice case

I'll do with this PSU for now but probably will buy another one, this one is sooo ugly, doesn't go with the case. Neither does the motherboard, RAM and graphics card actually :p
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