Well, I'm planning to upgrade my HTPC (want to get full speed with Dolphin) and want to maintain my current case. The issue that I'm getting is about the PSU: for this case, this must be a TFX one, and, from what I read these PSUs doesn't exist in wattages higher than 300W. In fact, a local technician here told me that the most important in a font is the total electrical current in the 12V outputs. Well, I'm planning getting the Seasonic SS-300TFX power supply, it was the best I could find, it have a constant output of 300W and a electrical current of 21A in the 12V output.
In a test that I've seen this font is capable of output 362W without any issues (with higher outputs, like 400W, it activate the over power protection and shut down). So my dilemma is finding if it'll be able of powering my system after the upgrade (using an PSU calculator it says that I need 400W at 100% workload for this):
That's all I remember now... Also, if this font isn't going to do the job, what is the possible workarounds? Remember that I'm not going to switching to a new case, I can lower the specs of some part but this case must be used...
In a test that I've seen this font is capable of output 362W without any issues (with higher outputs, like 400W, it activate the over power protection and shut down). So my dilemma is finding if it'll be able of powering my system after the upgrade (using an PSU calculator it says that I need 400W at 100% workload for this):
- Motherboard: Asus P8Z77M Pro
- Processor: Intel Core i5-3570k (I plan to overclock it to around 4.2-4.5GHz)
- RAM: around 2 or 4 DDR3-1600MHz banks
- Video Card: nVidia GeForce GT 440 (MSI N440GT-MD1GD3/LP -- it's overclockable but it'll run at stock speed)
- Fans: three 80mm fans (or 1 80mm fan plus 2 40mm fan for the small radiator of the water cooling kit)
- Small water cooling kit (already found some that may fit) or some high end air cooler that fits in my case (choosing yet)
- 1 standard SATA hard disk
- 1 standard SATA DVD±R/RW reader/writer
- 1 frontal generic card reader
That's all I remember now... Also, if this font isn't going to do the job, what is the possible workarounds? Remember that I'm not going to switching to a new case, I can lower the specs of some part but this case must be used...
Avell A70 MOB: Core i7-11800H, GeForce RTX 3060, 32 GB DDR4-3200, Windows 11 (Insider Preview)
ASRock Z97M OC Formula: Pentium G3258, GeForce GT 440, 16 GB DDR3-1600, Windows 10 (22H2)
ASRock Z97M OC Formula: Pentium G3258, GeForce GT 440, 16 GB DDR3-1600, Windows 10 (22H2)