Re: [ALUG] Good energy usage/performance CPU/mobo combo

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 09:33:34AM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:

On 25 June 2014 20:57, Chris Green <[1]cl@isbd.net> wrote:

 A major factor is power supply efficieny of course. A In particular
 efficiency at the (hopefully low) power that you will be using most of
 the time.

Good point. How do I go about determining the power required so that I can source a better PSU?

You can get quite cheap and reasonably accurate power meters now. Build your system and power it from an existing PSU and use the power meter to check its consumption. Then you can buy a suitable PSU.

This is the one I have (though I didn't buy it from Maplin I don't think):- http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/15a-plug-in-energy-saving-monitor-l61aq

A Google search will bring up lots of possibles, some cheaper.

I figure that getting the right PSU will likely pay for itself pretty quickly so that should be a "no brainer".

Quite.