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Different Power Supplies?

Started by Travis1012 , Jun 08 2008 11:04 PM

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Travis1012

Posted 08 June 2008 - 11:04 PM

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Hi,

Im wondering what the difference between 300W, 350W, 410W, 500W, etc... power supplies.

How many hard drives, CD-ROMS, etc... can they run?

Many Thanks

Travis

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reconman

Posted 09 June 2008 - 12:28 AM

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The more wattage a power supply has, the more power it has. The amount of drives they can supply power to depends on how many SATA connectors (or ata depending on your systems hardware) the PSU has.

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SRX660

Posted 09 June 2008 - 05:58 AM

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A very simple check on any combo you can check on is at NewEgg. Try some different configurations to see why there are different sized Ps's.

http://educations.ne...calc/index.html

SRX660