Size of Power Supply for FSX

[Dan Wenz]

I was looking at Dell's offerings and users' comments over the XPS 8100,
and noticed that several mentioned that they thought that the included
power supply, 350 watts, was too low. Any of you folks using any version
of that computer and find the included power supply is sufficient, or?

[Darren]

Well that all depends on what you've got plugged into that puppy, not
what programs/games you're running on it.

Basicly, the more components (PCI-E cards, hard drives, RAM DIMMs, fans,
video cards, etc) that are conected to the mainboard, the more power
will be required.

There's a nifty power supply calculator you can use at:
http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp

Or you can simply google search for "power supply calculator" and choose
among many more.

Good luck and have fun.

[gumby]

Post by Dan Wenz
I was looking at Dell's offerings and users' comments over the XPS 8100,
and noticed that several mentioned that they thought that the included
power supply, 350 watts, was too low. Any of you folks using any version
of that computer and find the included power supply is sufficient, or?

What video card and cpu are you using? 300w would have been good enough
for circa Geforce2 days and certainly not for today's gaming PCs with a
video card like ATI 5870 and overclocked quad core CPUs. I have a
Seasonic 800w PSU but admit that is a bit of overkill because my
Seasonic 600w could run the same system fine too.