Need low power socket A cpu - would 'laptop' cpu be best?

[The little lost angel]

Ed, it's true about the higher startup current for hard drives but the
surprising thing is that on one of my PCs I run the following components on
a basic 250W power supply made by FSP subsidiary Sparkle.

The PSU specs are at http://snipurl.com/954t and show a max 12V loading of
13 Amps.

*six* HDDs
Duron 700
Syntax SV266A mobo (Via 266A)
768 MB 133MHz SDRAM.

plus other bits & bobs like:

floppy
CD-RW
modest nVidia graphics card
PCI modem
IDE adaptor card.


It amazes me that it starts up at all but it seems just fine. Maybe the
hard drives are having to re-try furiously at startup?

Nah, looking at your config, I'll say you will start on any decent
200watter that can handle 8A to 10A on the +12V. One of my friends
measured a system similar to yours, with a 2.8Ghz P4 and not very
humbe nVidia graphics card and it barely crept pass the 200W mark no
matter what he does on it, at least according to him. pPpP

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[Jonathan Buzzard]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:35:01 +0000, Wes Newell wrote:

[SNIP]

All have to meet the same specs. And all have to have some protection
crcuitry. And there's no such thing as failsafe.

You are talking utter rubbish here. There is such thing as failsafe, and I
would point you to many medical devices which must either indicate a
warning or keep going if *any* component fails.

JAB.