120w pico psu enough?

bettz · 12 Aug 2013 at 01:11

Hi I'm planning on building a Streacom Fc8 evo and noticed a few have the 120w pico but a few have 150w psu's .I was hoping somebody could help me all I was planning on putting in was
CPU:i3 3225 (55w)
Motherboard:Gigabyte H77N-WIFI
Ssd:
Ram:
Also probably 2 usb's one or remote etc will 120w be enough?

teppic · 12 Aug 2013 at 02:49

It should be all right. The system load should stay below 100W. The 150W ones would be useful for running APUs that have a decent GPU included.

bettz · 12 Aug 2013 at 06:00

teppic said:
It should be all right. The system load should stay below 100W. The 150W ones would be useful for running APUs that have a decent GPU included.

I wasn't planning on adding a GPU I was just going to use the onboard graphics hd4000 rbh its going to be for xbmc.Was also wondering about adding a DVD drive

teppic · 12 Aug 2013 at 06:25

If it's for XBMC you might want to look at the APUs - the AMD GPUs are a bit better than Intel for video playback.

A DVD drive isn't much - 5W or so? The i3 3225 + board + RAM shouldn't be more than 75W or so, leaving a bit for drives and fans.

This is a reasonably powerful APU with a low TDP (and FM2 boards are very low power at idle):

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-356-AM

bettz · 12 Aug 2013 at 06:36

teppic said:
If it's for XBMC you might want to look at the APUs - the AMD GPUs are a bit better than Intel for video playback.

A DVD drive isn't much - 5W or so? The i3 3225 + board + RAM shouldn't be more than 75W or so, leaving a bit for drives and fans.

Thanks they'll be no fans just a ssd added to that list