[GTALUG] a quick question about power supplies?

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi Mike,
Thanks for the positive wishes resolution wise.
Your  reddit link leads to a page stating my request has been blocked due 
to a network policy.
One deeply unfortunate thing about reddit is their decision to block most, 
if not all third party applications and tools for reading posts there.
Personally frustrating as I used to find great Harry Potter fanfiction 
that way!
Ahem, in any case, can you summarize the wisdom for me?
Cheers,
Karen



On Thu, 18 Jul 2024, Mike Holloway wrote:

> Hi Karen,
>
> I've never had a problem using prevailing wisdom like that which you'll find in the following Reddit link when last I built my two workhorse PCs and had to consider power supply capacity:
> https://old.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/o3bjbn/how_do_i_choose_a_psu/h2b29gx/
>
> The situation as you describe it sounds quite stressful, wishing you a swift and effective resolution.
>
> Mike
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> On Thursday, July 18th, 2024 at 4:19 PM, Karen Lewellen via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi wise souls of computing.
>> One of the creative problems going on with my recently built computer is
>> that the fan in the power supply no longer works. Nor can I use the power
>> button to actually turn off the machine anymore.
>> When it gets too warm in fact, I must flip the switch on the supply in the
>> back..its scary, but so is overheating.
>>
>> While I am still hunting for sighted help to fix the mess my prior contact
>> left behind..the cd rom is disconnected too, I want to plan properly for
>> the power supply replacement.
>> I have several, including at least one still in the box.
>> I am quite sure that the power supply capacity is too low for the several
>> things the machine is doing, I have three hard drives in the unit, several
>> internal boards in use those kinds of things.
>> Is there a guide, or rule of fun, for determine how much power capacity
>> a supply should provide based on how much work the computer processor will
>> be doing?
>> With appreciation.
>> Karen
>>
>>
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