- Re: What PSU rating for Athlon 2400 with 6 HDDs?
- Posted by Christo on October 12th, 2004
i know very little about pwer, but from what i know a 350w will be ok, a
decent one though, i have a cheap one and i keep getting IRQL errors, im not
sure if they are related to the PSU or memory, but someone at uni has told
me a 400w PSU is reccomended with all AMD Athlon XP's
- Posted by none on October 13th, 2004
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:20:30 +0100, "Christo" <chris@juststuff.co.uk>
wrote:
I do video/film editing on Athalons and anything lower than 400 will
give you constant locks and blue screens.
The inrush and overcurrent ratings are critical too.
At least 30 on the 5v and 25 on the 12v is required.
You can NEVER have to much power.
A good trick is to split the load between multiple psu, does require a
bit of moding though.
- Posted by Matt on October 13th, 2004
none wrote:
Please provide a pointer to that recommendation on AMD's website.
- Posted by kony on October 13th, 2004
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:57:34 -0500, none
<gothika@bellsouth.net> wrote:
Not true. I also have done quite a bit of video editing and
other full loads for extended periods of time and am quite
sure that 30A on 5V is not needed if CPU doesn't use 5V for
VRM circuit, and that even if CPU uses 12V for VRM circuit,
it will not need 25A. If you had instability you either
have very atypically high load beyond what was mentioned, or
very poor power supplies.... like generics that are quite
overrated.
