On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 12:27:31PM +0000, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
Its 300 Watt, which is what the old one was, and it works but is unbearably noisy. So I am thinking of replacing with a 200 Watt Xilence, which is reviewed in some german mag as being exceptionally quiet.
Question: will 200W be enough? Its an i3, one hard drive, no optical, no graphics card and a gigabyte main board in a mini-itx case. My intuition is that it will be just fine because this is such a minimalist setup, but I know nothing about power or how to measure what the draw is.
I'd say yes. My I3 with three hard drives in a full sized case uses 44 watts. I did choose the motherboard specifically for low power consumption though. However *none* of my systems consumes much over 100 watts, I think the worst is around 110 watts.