Morning Discussion
How is it hanging Shackers? So did you guys catch this bit about the ESA starting to lobby Washington? Could very likely have significant effect on us. Do you think there is a need for certain video game related laws, to keep doing what we are or something else entirely? In lighter news, the first images of Fallen Empires: Legions have come out, and we find out it isn't actually an expansion for a bad Magic: The Gathering expansion, instead it's the spiritual descendant of Tribes. I think we all can get behind that.
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punchdog
replydamn it, MD'd
PC Builders:y}
I'm considering building a new rig for my wife using one of those Shuttle bare bones systems from New Egg. Should be a pretty future proof system for what she needs, for under 1K. Problem is, I'm concerned about the power requirements. The Shuttle system has a 250W power supply. Would that be sufficient to handle the following build?:
Shuttle SG33G5B Intel Socket T(LGA775) Intel Core 2 Quad / Core 2 Duo / Pentium Intel G33 Barebone with HDMI/HDCP/Dolby Digital Live! DTS/Vista ready - Retail
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core
CORSAIR XMS2 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
BFG Tech 8600GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA-
STOP PISSING ALL OVER OUR NEW CHATTY! >:(
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http://educations.newegg.com/tool/psucalc/index.html
plug everything into this - I'm sure you'll need more than 250 though.-
yah this comes up with 266W Minimum for that config at Peak Usage - http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp
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You'd want a 350W Minimum to be safe... remember power supplies generally serve less power than advertised.
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Keep in mind that calculator is not ENTIRELY accurate for an itx layout such as the shuttle, but its not far off.
The shuttle PSU's are high quality and can deliver all of that 250 watts effectively, a boast that plenty of other ATX PSU makers cannot make. 250 watts is more than enough juice for that shopping list in a shuttle.
Now keeping that in mind if you ever wanted to pursue an upgrade path to a longer PCI-E graphics card, such as the 8800GT, or quad-core CPU your out of luck. The size constraints and heat generation puts shuttle out of the ballpark for any of that.
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