On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 04:24:40PM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote: > I've heard that for gaming you would want a 600~800W PSU [1] > but how do I know how many W I need for my computer use? > I think the most resource-intense I do would be compiling and > watching multimedia on mpv. [2] >
That depends on the components in the computer. The reason why gaming configuration often require a more powerful power supply, because these use parts which consume in general more power (gpu mainly). > Can you use powertop(1) for this or some other tool or can it > not be measured at the software level? And if it can't, can > you estimate it somehow? just sum up the thermal max load of the parts (you need the spec sheets). and add 25% for general inefficiency. > > TIA > > [1] https://www.windowscentral.com/be-quiet-pure-power-11-fm-review > > [2] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/ebchw/COMPUTER > https://dataswamp.org/~incal/SOFTWARE > > -- > underground experts united > https://dataswamp.org/~incal > -- Henning Follmann | hfollm...@itcfollmann.com