I vaguely recall someone posting a while ago a breakdown of how much power various PC components pull, in an effort to help work out what PSU you'd need. I can't remember where it was posted or who it was that posted it, but I could really do with that info about now :)

I blew my 350 watt power supply a couple of nights ago and my brother just opened it up and said one of the transformers in it had burnt out. He thinks there could be a chance I was overloading the psu (it was 350 watt), and that got me curious about exactly how much power my PC would pull. I've got a 430 watt psu now, so either way that should be more than enough, but I was just curious.

I've got two hard drives, 2x80mm fans, 1x120mm fan, AGP 6600gt (which has its own molex connector, so I'd assume its drawing a decent amount), dvd drive, am64 cpu + fan, Audigy sound card, wireless network card, and then I guess whatever power the motherboard itself uses to do everything else. Anyone got any idea how much power all this stuff would pull? Would it be enough to fry a 350 watt psu?

Google ftw. :)

Edit: Heres Another

last edited by 0z at 17:26:24 26/Aug/05

Ah cool, didn't even know stuff like that existed.

According to those my PC would be pulling about 340 watts, so yeah, would have been getting close with a 350 watt supply I guess.

hmm you might want to get a 400/450W just in case 6600's pull a bit of juice underload. :)

Good site that one OZ...will have to remember it next time i build....i had major power issues last time.

Yeah, I've got a Thermaltake 430 watt now, so should be all sweet.