Will this lot work together :)

lsg1r

lsg1r

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As title really will this lot work together happily enough.


Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail
£53.99
(£63.44) £53.99
(£63.44)
Abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD ATI Micro ATX (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
£61.99
(£72.84) £61.99
(£72.84)
OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK)
£149.99
(£176.24) £149.99
(£176.24)



Plan to use it as a server (yes I know a lot will say its overkill) with upto 9 (5 in a caddy) hard drives (got the raid card etc)

Now the second question - will the above plus 2x120mm fans, dvdrw, 2x pci/pcie usb cards work on a 480W Tagan PSU or will I need something a little larger. Onboard graphics and case has .
All the onboard calculators are saying something completely ridiculous in my view, plus they dont have the 2140/2160 yet

Thanks :)
 
I think that you are quite correct to say that many will think that your have specified an overkill system for the job. I am one of these people. (Although it should all work together fine)


I also have a gut feeling that 480W would be a tad on the low side for all those disk drives.
 
I think you should be alright with a 480W PSU, but 9 HDD's might mean you need something with a bit more power.

As a guide I had a 420W PSU (but the P4D's EAT power) and had to replace it with a 600W, I only have 1 HDD 1 DVDRW.

Cheers

David
 
If you can set a staggered spin up for the hard drives in the bios that should help as that will be probably when the greatest single load will occur. A hard drive will normally take about 15-20w in operation I believe. You could try this PSU calculator if you haven't already. :)
 
Was looking a little while back on figures for power consumption from harddrives and concluded that they're around 7-9W each. So not much at all. I'd think 480W should be enough considering you won't be running a big graphics card on it and I imagine the TDP on the E2160 is pretty low...? Corrections welcomed though :D
 
well using a e4200 (closest I can get really) its saying between 467W (new psu) and 700W (50% cap aging) at peak load and 100% TDP.

I'm 50/50 on it being enough reasoning is that according to all the images Ive seen on the e2160 its using a lower vcore rating to the other 1.0x, meaning lower power consumption than the others. My opteron 175 (currently onboard graphics) with 2 hard drives takes under 300 at load and I would expect the e2160 to take less power than the opteron :) So working on the above info on drives I would need about 400W giving me 80W spare.

I suppose if I did do this (waiting till july anyways) I could check the power by plugging in another computer to monitor the ups power usage, that would tell me the rough load. I dont want to damage the hard drives if the psu isnt powerful enough though
 
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For your reference I have 5 HDDs, 1 DVD-RW, 2 120mm fans & 1 80mm plus a PCI exhaust fan, 2 PCI cards, overclocked and overvolted E4300 & 1800XT and my Tagan 530 is handles them just fine.
 
lsg1r said:
I dont want to damage the hard drives if the psu isnt powerful enough though
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That is the crux - for me the extra spent on a slightly beefier psu would be an investment for peace of mind, the few quid extra would be nothing comapred to the fear of data loss.
 
So as we pretty much saying I need a larger psu. What size would you all say is good idea or alternatively would the 580W Tagan modular work (i'm lazy only have to do a motherboard swap then as they use the same cables :)).
 
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