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This is probably one of my screwier ideas, but I've got an old 200W dell PSU. Between the 20pin fakeATX and 6pin aux connector I can rewire the 20pin connector into a standard pinout and have a normal PSU.
The PSU is rated for 46W@3.3V, 110W@5V, 72W@12V, and 140W combined 3.3 and 5V. Which is similar to the levels on several 230W units I looked at on newegg, with the exception that unlike those generic POSes the 200W is probably an honest rating.
MY question is if I can use it to run a stripped down system for crunching/emergency loaner. The hardware loadout would consist of a harddrive and cdr, 256mb of ram, mobo with integrated graphics, and a cheap cpu. The disk drives will be from my parts box, the remainder of the hardware would need purchased, and I'd probably hold off until newegg has a bundled special to clear obsolecent inventory.
My questions are if this is at all a viable project at all, and what levels of cpu performance would the low power limit me to on both intel and amd systems?
The PSU is rated for 46W@3.3V, 110W@5V, 72W@12V, and 140W combined 3.3 and 5V. Which is similar to the levels on several 230W units I looked at on newegg, with the exception that unlike those generic POSes the 200W is probably an honest rating.
MY question is if I can use it to run a stripped down system for crunching/emergency loaner. The hardware loadout would consist of a harddrive and cdr, 256mb of ram, mobo with integrated graphics, and a cheap cpu. The disk drives will be from my parts box, the remainder of the hardware would need purchased, and I'd probably hold off until newegg has a bundled special to clear obsolecent inventory.
My questions are if this is at all a viable project at all, and what levels of cpu performance would the low power limit me to on both intel and amd systems?