To many devices for a thermaltake 480 power supply?
Ok, so I think I have a power supply problem, my psu only provides 11. 7x to 11. 8x on the 12v rail, and all the other rails are a little low too. Do you think this would cause stability problems? Do you think I am drawing too much power? Here are my components: p4 2.
Ok, so I think I have a power supply problem, my psu only provides 11.7x to 11.8x on the 12v rail, and all the other rails are a little low too. Do you think this would cause stability problems? Do you think I am drawing too much power? Here are my components:
p4 2.4c@3.36
Thermaltake bigwater kit
1gb ocz pc4800
PNY g800gt @ 400, 1100
2 wd 80gb in raid 0
1 seagate 250gb
1 liteon cdrw
1 liteon dvdrw
1 120mm fan
2 cathodes
floppy drive
All of this running off of a Thermaltake 480watt power supply. Does anybody now if I can turn the voltage rail up in this power supply if I'm drawing a little to much power? Please advise.
p4 2.4c@3.36
Thermaltake bigwater kit
1gb ocz pc4800
PNY g800gt @ 400, 1100
2 wd 80gb in raid 0
1 seagate 250gb
1 liteon cdrw
1 liteon dvdrw
1 120mm fan
2 cathodes
floppy drive
All of this running off of a Thermaltake 480watt power supply. Does anybody now if I can turn the voltage rail up in this power supply if I'm drawing a little to much power? Please advise.
Participate on our website and join the conversation
This topic is archived. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast.
Responses to this topic
Using our power supply calculator, I found that you only need about 300 Watts total to power your system.
Rather than trying to "turn up" the wattage on a particular rail, you may consider distributing the power requirements more evenly. For example, a fan uses a lot less wattage than a hard drive. Rather than lumping all of your hard drives together on one rail, you might try coupling a hard drive and a fan, or some other combination to distribute the load.
Hope this helps!
Rather than trying to "turn up" the wattage on a particular rail, you may consider distributing the power requirements more evenly. For example, a fan uses a lot less wattage than a hard drive. Rather than lumping all of your hard drives together on one rail, you might try coupling a hard drive and a fan, or some other combination to distribute the load.
Hope this helps!
