Do I have enough power for Conroe?

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Burner27

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Current system powered by a PC Power and cooling Turbo 510 Deluxe Express PSU:

side note--I just upgraded from 2GBs of RAM to 4GBs of Ram

Asus P5WD2 Premium WiFi/TV Tuner
Pentium 4 840D 3.2 Extreme Edition
4GB OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400
BFG 7800GTX OC
2 x Plextor PX-716a DVD Burner
2 x 400GB HDDs
2 x 500GB HDD
SB X-Fi XtremeMusic
Onboard 10/100/1000 NIC

Do I have enough juice to run Conroe/Conroe MoBo when they're avaiable?

Thanks.
 
One of the biggest things that everyone is excited about Conroe is how low power is compared to a Pentium 4...
 
I dont think you understand the concept of "less power"...
the cpu you are upgrading to (conroe) will use less power than the one you are currently on. so if the one you're on works with your PSU, it will work even better with conroe.
 
Oh no. I do understand "less power". Please do not patronize me. If you read the thread again you will also see I added an additional 2 GB of ram. My concern was there mostly. I know Conroe uses less power but the boards are requiring new VRMs and I was curious as to that variable as well.
 
You have an 800 series Pentium D... the most power HUNGRY chip to date. If you can run that you'll be able to run ANY Conroe easily.
 
I believe that the 510 SLI / Express is one of the strongest PSU available. Ok, there is the 850 SSI and the 1 Kilowatt but heck, that 510 will run every system just fine for sure, even under high load and stress. You get what you pay for.

Para
 
Thanks Para. That's what I was looking for. I wanted to make sure I didn't need an 850w or 1kW PSU. My electrical bill is high enough already.
 
Burner27 said:
Thanks Para. That's what I was looking for. I wanted to make sure I didn't need an 850w or 1kW PSU. My electrical bill is high enough already.
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Actually the PSU does not determine how much electricity you are sucking up from the wall... it's the compnonents in your system. Whether you have a 510W or 1KW PSU, the AC power draw will be the same as long as it's the same system. A higher rated PSU just allows you to get more AC power.

Please correct me if I am wrong :p
 
^ that depends on the PSU's efficiency too. You suck a little more power than your system acutally uses.
 
true true... so two PSUs with equal efficiency powering the same components draw the same AC power from your wall, regardless of the rated wattage.

Sorry so off topic. I think the PSU you have now should be fine... sticks of RAM dont add a significant enough power draw for you to worry about. Now going SLI might ;)
 
You should be fine. On another note, who is curious as to when they will switch from wattage to horse power to rate PSUs? They are certainly getting powerful enough.
 
Emission said:
^ that depends on the PSU's efficiency too. You suck a little more power than your system acutally uses.
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The PCP&C 510 SLI is 99% power efficient. :D
 
krameriffic said:
You should be fine. On another note, who is curious as to when they will switch from wattage to horse power to rate PSUs? They are certainly getting powerful enough.
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When they start doing mechanical work.
 
krameriffic said:
You should be fine. On another note, who is curious as to when they will switch from wattage to horse power to rate PSUs?
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And why would one ever want to have that happen? Watts are much nicer, since they are metric, so that it's easy to say: My PSU is rated for 4 MW, instead of 5364.08836 hp. I seriously think that hp as a unit needs to die, as much as I am used to it as a measure for automobile engines. Metric ftw.

ps.: my electric bill always comes in kWH units.
 
Burner27 said:
Oh no. I do understand "less power". Please do not patronize me. If you read the thread again you will also see I added an additional 2 GB of ram. My concern was there mostly. I know Conroe uses less power but the boards are requiring new VRMs and I was curious as to that variable as well.
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You have more than plenty power..

For a side note, adding extra RAM actually does not use that much power, as all motherboards are broken in to power planes in the middle layers of the PCB. The power layers provide power to all components that are drilled far enough into the power plane.
 
Emission said:
Just so you know, 99% is theoretically impossible.
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Theoretically, if you had all superconductor materials for every piece of wire, circuit, etc... You practically lose 1% just on the wire/plug from the wall. Ok not really... but you know what I mean.
 
Only reason im saying so is because, the components used aren't superconductor materials (Hence the name, semi-conductor.) ;)
 
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