aaron kulkis cmiqlkx91hotpopcom per jessen wrote really offtopic initial discussion took place figured reasonable place followup attempt track instability problem newly acquired workstation amd phenom radeon graphics etc went buy new powersupply convinced couple suggestions others powersupply 350w enough led bit discussion wrt right size powersupply well numbers ive measured much power new workstation uses different loads system comprised 1 x amd phenom quadcore cpu think supposed draw 95w 4 x 1gb memory 2 x 320gb sata drives raid1 1 x sapphire ati radeon x1650 passive cooling miscellaneous dvd crdw floppy cabinet fan current powersupply thermaltake toughpower rated 850w nice powersupply also quiet standby 30w idle 130150w peaks 165w startup 150w peaks 175w resync 280gb raid1 155160w 1 core full load 185190w settles 190w 2 core full load 205210w system rebooted point system temp50 cpu temp60 temp387 added large 40cm fan keep temps 3 core full load 220225w settles 225w 4 core full load 228w230w machine reboots stable verylarge noisy fan im looking something stresstest graphics card even add 100w extra load well go screensavers look something capability really beat 3d engineand fiddle configuration maximize beating kde rightclick desktop configure desktop screensaver opengl screen savers tue 05 aug 2008 122354 0500 opensuse ot much power pc really consume