Any Windows based Util that tells how much Power/Watts are being used?

farooqm · 25 Dec 2007 at 14:25

As title says, is there any windows based utils that report how much watts are being within windows.... eg. when playing games, adding in extra disks etc..

farooqm · 25 Dec 2007 at 16:13

badbob said:
A smart UPS has a VA rating, so convert that into watts. Got UPS overhead of course but shouldn't be that much more.

Lost me with the Smart UPS bit.... I thought these were hardware devices?

Is there a piece of software/utility with the same name?

farooqm · 25 Dec 2007 at 17:35

I'm using a desktop machine with XP, I have a 480W Tagan PSU and just trying to figure out if I need a bigger supply if I add the following:

More disks
or a more powerful GPU

My current Spec:

Asus A8N motherboard
Opteron 146 - running at 3Ghz
1Gb Mem - running 1:1 with CPU
Adaptec 39160 Card
1 x 146Gb Scsi 15K drive
2 x 72Gb Scsi 10K drives
Geforce 6600GT GPU
DVD Writer
DVD ROM
Floppy drive ???

Will I be able to add more drives, upgrade mem & Graphics Card with my current TAGAN 480W PSU?

farooqm · 25 Dec 2007 at 18:39

Is there anyway for me to figure how much wattage I am using. Someone mentioned a plug in device... Are these readily available?... are they expensive?

farooqm · 25 Dec 2007 at 19:05

Concorde Rules said:
If, and only if you can get everything going at once you won't be drawing more than 300W, infact getting everything loaded is actually impossible.

Normally, I'd say about 200W. Idle < 80W.

CR

Nice one, cheers, seems I am fine to go ahead and get some disk space added for starters

and then upgrade my slow GPU and mem.