Spec me a low powered machine

Subliminal Aura · 29 Aug 2007 at 11:25

I want to run a low end dual core duo with 2 sata drives no vga but my PSU is rated at 200W can it be done ? :confused:

DavidB · 29 Aug 2007 at 11:34

That really depends on a multiple of things:
What your budget is
If its a branded PSU(and other details about the psu)

In honesty though, i doubt 200w will be enougth and its time to be upgrading to a newer one.

Subliminal Aura · 29 Aug 2007 at 11:38

DavidB said:
In honesty though, i doubt 200w will be enougth and its time to be upgrading to a newer one.

200w should be plenty ?

Lets assume 200W is all I have for now.

Looking at some of the calculators around I'm getting power consumption values of around 150-170W.

Wiggins · 29 Aug 2007 at 12:09

With a 200W PSU you have to remember that you will not get the full 200W thats specced. It will probably borderline 160 - 170W.

rick827 · 29 Aug 2007 at 12:13

You using a power brick off an itx pc or something? You can get away with a lot on just 150w, but if you push everything it'll defo crash on you. Could look at a undervolted/clocked be-2300 and an matx board

Subliminal Aura · 29 Aug 2007 at 12:27

rick827 said:
You using a power brick off an itx pc or something? You can get away with a lot on just 150w, but if you push everything it'll defo crash on you. Could look at a undervolted/clocked be-2300 and an matx board

Nah its a PSU ripped out of a shuttle and forced/jammed into a rackmount server. Its currently powering 2x IDEs, mobo plus 2x pentium IIIs...

I'm surprised that its stable and going strong... so that got me thinking, whilst I wait the arrival of 'proper' replacement parts why not upgrade the motherboard and cpu to c2d

Subliminal Aura · 29 Aug 2007 at 16:41

Bump this guys... all I need to know is if 200W would be enough to power a C2D

sWiZzLe · 29 Aug 2007 at 19:41

Maybe if it was a Shuttle? Mine is 300w i think but i have quite a power hungry fx card

Ooo its from a shuttle, missed that one .... build a shuttle then

Just thinking, we recently had some problems with a pc, 2 hdd's (not sata) an old Durion 1ghz running on 200W. It was very unstable and hard drives kept timing out, till about 2 weeks later when the psu blew up! Stuck a 300W psu in and its been fine ever since. After that, i can't imagine a dual core cpu working on 200w

rick827 · 30 Aug 2007 at 08:45

200W will power it fine.. will your PSU power it fine? thats another question

only way to find out will be to try it

Kanifee · 30 Aug 2007 at 09:33

buy a g33m-s2 a gig of budget ddr2 and a e2140, your looking at around £140

CaDLoN · 30 Aug 2007 at 10:26

Yea it can be done...

Are you going Core Duo Core Duo , i.e. mobile cpu T2xxx, T5xxx or T7xxx???

I run a T2500 in my main rig, run quite nicely 2 x 2.0GHz & 2MB cache

Subliminal Aura · 30 Aug 2007 at 12:55

Thanks boys for the replies... all taken on board