Person running the lowest power supply with a powerful system

[pcslookout]

Who is running the lowest power supply for a powerful system and its doing just fine so far for over several months or years ? What are your specs ?

 

[gregor7777]

Well, Prescott 2.4GHz/1GB PC3200, 2 HDDs, 1 Optical, Radeon 9700PRO, SATA Card, 3 60mm fans and one 80 MM Fan

on a 200w mATX PSU was about pushing it I think for me.

Sparkle brand so it was a good one.

 

[Sinn707]

My older machine still runs a 19" LCD, an overclocked 64 bit AMD 3200+ venice paired with an arctic cooling freezer 7 pro CPU cooler @ 2.6ghz, 2 GeForces 6800GS in SLI, 4x512mb ram sticks, 2 Hard drives, one optical drive and an x-fi soundcard on a...

430W generic PSU (came with the case )
It's been running for over 2 years now.

SLI gaming rig on a generic PSU, you don't hear that too often


edit:sp

 

[HannibalX]

Back in 2004 I was running an Athlon XP 3200+, 2GB of ram, two hard drives, two optical drives, Radeon 9800 Pro 128, PCI modem, PCI nic and PCI Sound Blaster all in a no-name case with a generic 300 watt PSU from a local PC shop. The case had 1 80mm rear fan!

Man did that thing run hot! I ran that until 2006 though with no problems really.

 

[m1ldslide1]

Once more people see this thread my PSU will get spanked, but it seems I might be in the lead at the moment.

Coolermaster 450W PSU:
opteron 175 at 2.6ghz
8800GTS 640 superclock
raptor 150
x-fi xtreme music
zalman 9500
3 case fans (2x120 and 1x90), one at 110cfm
1 optical drive
keyboard, mouse
2 gigs of ram


It might be impressive if it was a Kmart PSU, but this coolermaster is supposed to run at around 80% eff. So I know I'm not very impressive. Just another guy running near the upper limits of his power supply.

 

[Viper GTS]

Antec NeoHE 550 (I know, but I think the system may make up for it):

Q6600 (currently at 3 GHz) on 680i
8 GB RAM
2 x 7900GTO @ GTX speeds (SLI)
2 x 7200.10 Seagate HD's
X-Fi
PCIe HD Tuner
Dell PERC 5/e PCIe RAID controller w/256 MB battery backed cache
2 x SATA Optical
4 x 120mm fans
1 x 200mm fan (Antec 900)

Viper GTS

 

[pcslookout]

m1ldslide1 sorry I have you beat.

Intel Duo 6420
4 gig of ram
WD Raptor 150 gig 10,000 rpm hard drive
Hitachi 500 gig 7200 rpm ide hard drive
200 gig Maxtor 7200 rpm ide hard drive
Geforce 8800 GTS
pci tv tuner card
Four 80mm case fans
dvd-burner
Enermax 400 watt Liberty power supply



Thinking of getting a GTX or Ultra soon but not sure yet may just wait for the next Nvidia cards in 6 to 10 months.

 

[HannibalX]

Pff. Those are all reasonable power supplies for the systems you are running.

Tell me you are doing it on a 400 watt no name from the computer show and I'll be impressed.

 

[m1ldslide1]

Originally posted by: pcslookout
m1ldslide1 sorry I have you beat.

Intel Duo 6420
4 gig of ram
WD Raptor 150 gig 10,000 rpm hard drive
Hitachi 500 gig 7200 rpm ide hard drive
200 gig Maxtor 7200 rpm ide hard drive
Geforce 8800 GTS
pci tv tuner card
Four 80mm case fans
dvd-burner
Enermax 400 watt Liberty power supply



Thinking of getting a GTX or Ultra soon but not sure yet may just wait for the next Nvidia cards in 6 to 10 months.

Spanked! :thumbsup:

Damn your superior storage setup! Actually both you and Viper GTS have me beat. I figure Viper's SLI setup plus extra drives put him about on the same level.

 

[m1ldslide1]

Originally posted by: Pale Rider
Pff. Those are all reasonable power supplies for the systems you are running.

Tell me you are doing it on a 400 watt no name from the computer show and I'll be impressed.

Well maybe I'll just go and buy one!

Here's my next PSU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817163013


Edit: LOL - just read the first customer review.

 

[JavaMomma]

Here is a review of the Fortron Zen 400
http://www.madshrimps.be/?acti...tpage=2537&articID=574

They run two overclocked 8800GTS in SLI and a E6600 overclocked to 3.2Ghz and claim it ran stable, not to bad for a passive 400Watt PS.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: JavaMomma
Here is a review of the Fortron Zen 400
http://www.madshrimps.be/?acti...tpage=2537&articID=574

They run two overclocked 8800GTS in SLI and a E6600 overclocked to 3.2Ghz and claim it ran stable, not to bad for a passive 400Watt PS.

So this means I should be fine running a even more powerful video card than a 8800 GTS on my power supply! Wonder if my Enermax 400 watt Liberty power supply could handle a SLI 8800 GTX or Ultra setup? I have a feeling not.

 

[NeoPTLD]

Depends on what you have, but "more total wattage" doesn't mean more power for your system.

The 700W M12-700 is no more powerful than my 320W PSU for my Athlon XP PC, which is quite a power hog of a CPU.

Athlon XP gets the CPU power from 3.3 and 5v and my PSU is rated for 180W allowance for the two combined. The aforementioned power supply, although more than twice the "total" output, the 3.3v and 5v output are still restricted to 180W and the additional power is all in 12v rails.

 

[Liberator21]

My old HTPC:

Turion MT-32 25watt @ 2.0Ghz
Biostar 754 6100
2Gb OCZ PC3200
Hitachi 100Gb 7200rpm Sata 2.5'
Slimline DVD
2x Noctua 120mm
BFG 7600GT OC...

All on the 120 watt PicoPSU!

It made a decent gaming rig also.

 

[Smartazz]

This was from a few years ago:
A 3GHZ Prescot Pentium 4
4 Sticks of DDR RAM
7800GT OC'd
2 DVD drives
1 7200RPM HDD

All on a 305watt no name PSU. I only ran it like this for a short period of time until the new Fortron arrived.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: El Liberache
My old HTPC:

Turion MT-32 25watt @ 2.0Ghz
Biostar 754 6100
2Gb OCZ PC3200
Hitachi 100Gb 7200rpm Sata 2.5'
Slimline DVD
2x Noctua 120mm
BFG 7600GT OC...

All on the 120 watt PicoPSU!

It made a decent gaming rig also.

Wow!

 

[HardWarrior]

Well, for a good while I ran 9 case fans, 2 DC pumps, 2 7800 GTX's, 3 DVD burners, 4 HD's, some serious CCFL's, the RAM listed below, my trusty Digidoc and an overclocked 4400+ on a PCP&C 510. I replaced the 510 tonight with a CM Real Power Pro 850w. TBH my box is visably snappier now and the 850 runs a LOT cooler.

 

[jonnyGURU]

I've got a 4200+, 2GB of RAM and a 7950GT OC running off of an Ultra Power Partner 325W.

 

[hiromizu]

Opt. 165 2gz, 2gb mem, 4x250gb sata, 7600gs on 240w antec. Running 2 years + without a problem.

 

[pcslookout]

Wow both of you all nice! Amazing how you really don't need that much power like we think we do.

 

[HardWarrior]

The really amazing thing is why you try to make this same point so much. Does it really matter to you THAT much what wattage PSU other people use?

 

[f1sh3r]

300W gateway PSU

Core 2 Duo e6300
3GB Ram
120GB & 250GB HDD
DVD-RW
3 Fans
7600GT
TV Tuner

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: f1sh3r
300W gateway PSU

Core 2 Duo e6300
3GB Ram
120GB & 250GB HDD
DVD-RW
3 Fans
7600GT
TV Tuner

Wow not bad but dclive (Link) is the winner with an amazing system powered on only a 300 watt power supply. The system is better than my but still able to run on only a 300 watt power supply! Amazing! :Q

 

[dclive]

Yep -- I think I have this one wrapped up. It wasn't intentional (originally it was nv 6200 video) but when I added that 32" Sharp Aquos and wanted something to drive 1900x1080 video...

It's on 24x7 and does pretty serious work - Vista MCE, plus 2 VMWare servers (Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server).

Acer E700 (965 chipset) board
Intel Quad-Core Q6600 (quad 2.4) CPU
4 x 1GB DDR2/667 chips
4 x 500GB 3.5" HDDs
1 x 5.25" DVD +/- RW
1 x EVGA 8800GTS/320
1 x Hauppauge PVR-500 PCI Dual-tuner TV card
keyboard/mouse/USB remote controller for Logitec mouse
.... all on 300 watts, the default straight from Acer PS.

 

[pcslookout]

dclive how long have you been running your system off the 300 watt power supply ?