In your opinions - Will my picopsu be enough

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Hi guys - simple question, do you think I can get away with running the following system on a picopsu 160xt (160w, 200w peak).

Q6600 G0 (95w tdp) - Undervolted by 0.1v (the max the mobo allows) and possibly underclocked to around 2ghz
Zotac GF9300-I-E
2 x 2GB DDR2 800mhz
Corsair H70 with 2 scythe fans
1 x low speed (1000rpm) side exhaust fan
Intel X25-m G2 80GB SSD
PCI-e 4x Esata expansion card

I will be using the integrated graphics so no dedicated GPU - hdds will be connected via separately powered esata external enclosure/s.

Do you think I will get away with it?

Thanks in advance
 
Placed your config into thermal-takes psu calculator. Here are the results.
Can't be sure as only going by your specs, but 160watt supply isn't enough according to this.

http://www.thermaltake.outervision.com/Power

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Might be of some interest as I also had no idea what a picopsu was.. Amazing.

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Thanks for that. Yeah they are amazing little things for very small builds. Shame about the PSU calculator result, I wonder if it overestimates though?

Anyone have any real world experience of a similar build?
 
PSU calculators a very conservative, especially ones attached to companies who sell PSUs :D I think you'd get away with it at stock

I ran an Athlon II quad, two hard drives (non green type), bluray and a 5450 1gb from a 150w pico
 
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d_brennen said:
PSU calculators a very conservative, especially ones attached to companies who sell PSUs :D I think you'd get away with it at stock

I ran an Athlon II quad, two hard drives (non green type), bluray and a 5450 1gb from a 150w pico
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Thanks that is very useful to know. if you managed to run all that of a 150 then I reckon I can get away with the 160. Especially considering I have no optical drive or graphics card like you had in yours. This has made me very happy - noisy psu can go bye bye :D
 
What power brick will you be using?

You should be fine, I was running an i52300 (stock) and HD 7870XT (slight undervolt) which ran games at around 215w load. This was the power draw from the wall so actual consumption was lower.

Power calculators tend to be very cautious with their ratings.
 
Sprite said:
What power brick will you be using?

You should be fine, I was running an i52300 (stock) and HD 7870XT (slight undervolt) which ran games at around 215w load. This was the power draw from the wall so actual consumption was lower.

Power calculators tend to be very cautious with their ratings.
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I will be using a modified dell da2 block which is a 12V / 18A 216w adapter
 
You will be fine, I used a 120w DC-DC board very similar to a pico to run a Sandy i3, 4 x 4gb ram modules, a pair of 60gb SSD's and a 2tb WD Green hdd and it worked fine, didn't even get that warm :)
 
Yeah - you have all done a good job of re-assuring me it will be ok. All I need to do now is wire up the power brick. If it works I will post a couple of pictures up if anyone is interested?
 
d_brennen said:
Did you kill yourself in a puff of magic smoke then, BluSky? :D
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No not yet :D. It has been a bit hectic recently and I haven't had time to put the thing together. Also trying to think of a good way of wiring up a switch so that the power brick doesn't have to always be on.
 
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Also trying to think of a good way of wiring up a switch so that the power brick doesn't have to always be on.
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what about something like one of the inline on/off switches from an old lamp.... wired up between the brick and the socket.
 
You should be OK with a Pico 160. My server box runs an i3 (low power version 35w TDP or there about) 8GB RAM, 4 WD Green HDD, 2 WD Black system HDD with JR Micron hardware RAID, 1 x 120mm FAN, 1 x Akasa low profile CPU fan and when idle it pulls 30-35W and when running prime 100% CPU still pulls < 80w from the wall. Pico runs stone cold, 16A external power brick is midly warm. Pico is a brilliant bit of kit.

Edit: I'm using onboard graphics (Asus P8H77-I mb) although generally there is no display connected, it runs headless. :D
 
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I actually bought a power meter now so that I can test things like this in future. The thing draws just over 120w at 100% load running Intel Burn Test so I am pretty happy with that. Thanks for your input all.
 
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