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Power Supply Check ?

#1 losty77

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Posted 25 September 2008 - 05:07 PM

Hi ,

I was wonder how i can check watt power supply in my vista system ? Any idea how i know how many Watt my power supply is ?

Losty

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Posted 26 September 2008 - 10:30 AM

If you give us the make and model of your computer, we can look up the system specs. and see if it's listed. Other than that you'll have to open it up and look at the label

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#3 figgis41

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Posted 26 September 2008 - 12:46 PM

hi,,, take the side off and it will say on a little plate or sticker on the psu,,,,, make sure its powerd down and pull the power jack out aswell,,,, should only take a minuite,,, then plug it back in.

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#4 losty77

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Posted 26 September 2008 - 07:24 PM

thanks for the infos..Hehehe was expecting any software can show info about it :thumbsup:

#5 losty77

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Posted 26 September 2008 - 08:26 PM

Okay i open the side and see ALot stuff on that sticker !

I saw PURE POWER and MAX OUTPUT W

and another say TOTAL OUTPUT / 450 W

what this mean ?

losty

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Posted 27 September 2008 - 05:51 AM

450 Watts

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#7 losty77

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Posted 27 September 2008 - 05:04 PM

thanks for the answer Usasma :thumbsup:

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Posted 29 September 2008 - 06:00 PM

If you are looking at the wattage for a future Video card upgrade. The total wattage isn't as important as the individual 12v rails. Depending on the model of video card you get you need at least a combined or total of 32 watts for the 12v rail. For example a Rosewill RX630-S-B 630 watt power supply has 4 12v rails at 20 amps each totaling 80 amps. That's a pretty stout power supply.

Output document.write(neg_specification_newline('+3.3V@24A,+5V@24A,+12V1@20A,+12V2@20A,
+12V3@20A, +12V4@20A,-12V@0.5A,+5VSB@2.5A'));+3.3V@24A,+5V@24A,+12V1@20A,+12V2@20A,
+12V3@20A, +12V4@20A,-12V@0.5A,+5VSB@2.5A

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