greg freemyer tlvognmhkkorgmailcom thu feb 14 2008 856 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 per dont know measured load important measure short power surges particular im suspicious load raid1 resync could technique catch 10 msec spike etc think spikes causing trouble sata drives dont know know new power supplies major source error reports lkml last year extremely routine even new 650w supplies greg greg freemyer litigation triage solutions specialist httpwwwlinkedincomingregfreemyer first 99 days litigation white paper httpwwwnorcrossgroupcomformswhitepapers9920days20whitepaperpdf norcross group intersection evidence technology httpwwwnorcrossgroupcom tue 05 aug 2008 194112 0500 opensuse ot much power pc really consume