Shuttle SFF 250 Watts Enough?!

[mnarciso]

Hello everyone,

new to the forums here and have just bought an Intel SFF from Shuttle their new G5's. However something is starting to concern me. The 250 Watts of power seems very meager unless I'm misunderstanding something. PSU has never been my thing and I fail to understand if the actual number of watts actually determines if its enough power...

Now I bought an eVGA Nvidia 6800 and an Audigy 2 ZS Gamer PCI. I think both require power from the PSU through the molex connecter (i think thats right). I also have 1 gig of Corsair 2700LL (low latency) twin x ram and a 36 gig Western Digital Raptor 10,000 RPM's.

Will I have problems with the power in this SFF? Apparently this is Shuttles best PSU and quietest. They are using this PSU in their world cyber games 2004 computers which have Geforce 6600's and Audigy 2 ZS's equipped and Intel Pentium 4 3.4Ghz 550 Prescott processors.

Can anyone care to explain how this is possible with a 250 Watt PSU? I use to use a 250 in the old days. Any help would be appreciated. This PSU thing has got me sweating making me think i made a big mistake buying an SFF.

- Mike

 

[nero2]

You should be fine. I can't give you any links right now, but several people have crammed everything you have (and more) into their Shuttles over @ the SFFtech.com forums without problems.

 

[Mik3y]

check out the reviews here at newegg. i would take a quality 250W over a generic 400W any day. reason why? because they are alot more reliable and give more juice for output. generally, a psu with good 12v rails are are wat you should be looking for, and the ones shuttle provides are excellent.

as in the review, note the dude who put in an athlon fx-53, x800 xt, 2 raptors, and sound card, and etc. the x800 xt uses about as much power as the 9800 xt, and the 9800 xt isnt much more then the 9800 pro. in fact, the 6800 gt uses more power then the x800 xt and i've heard a lot of people running the gt absolutely fine wtih their shuttle and psu.

 

[mnarciso]

Oh I see, thats great information. I guess I'll be looking at the 12v rating from now on rather then just how many watts it is. Well I'm glad this is all cleared up i don't feel bad about what I bought. I'll check out the SFFtech forums too. But I saw the shear amount of posts there are here and thought I would find the fastest answer here. Thanks a lot guys.

- Mike