On Friday, March 04, 2022 11:48:41 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > But again, the GPU - if I don't play games, do I still need > > the W for that, as high? > > What happens if your PSU doesn't have a high enough wattage is that > things will work fine as long as your actual consumption is below the > PSU's limit but if for some reason you push the system beyond the limit, > then funny things can/will happen, including immediate shutdown, crash,
Back in the old days, when I sometimes had something that needed a little more umpf on an intermittent basis, I would sometimes add a big capacitor on the output(s) of the power supply (for some value of big -- I don't remember mfds., but I'd get something rated at least a few volts above the nominal voltage and sometimes capacitors that were maybe 3" in diameter and 5 or 6" tall (just going by memory). In some cases I could use something much smaller, maybe 1.5" by 3" or so. (Those are all technical electrical engineering specs ;-)