[Application] Power Supply Wattage Calculator

If you have ever upgraded your computer or built your own then I am sure you have always wondered how much power is enough. This great web based application Power Supply Calculator solves this problem.

You begin by choosing your CPU, which start with the AMD K6 166MHz and the Intel Pentium MMX 166MHz up to the latest releases for both Brands. Then you select your Graphics Card, Memory, Hard Drives, Optical drives then all your PCI cards, modems, the number of USB and Firewire Devices and then any fans and lights you might have. Then it adds up the wattage for all these components.

I did this manually when building my current PC going to all the manufacture sites looking for the details I needed, this took sometime. I will be using this for certain on my next build or major upgrade.

Since we are on the topic of power supplies I thought I would mention the power supply I have Antec’s NeoPower 480.

This power supply rocks in so many ways the apart from the beautiful silence to the high performance and stability for overclocking, its most noticeable feature is the “Advanced Cable Management System” which is a set of modular cables, allowing you to only have connected those cables you need, reducing congestion inside your case which results in better airflow.

Though more expensive than the “free” power supplies that a lot of cases come with, if you are building a machine for performance or stability then spending the extra money on power supply is definitely worth it. You can get all sorts of weird problems occurring if you dot not have enough power and cheap branded power supplies are not known for their stability and their output spikes and dips and there is nothing worse than just lining up a headshot or a perfect ganking and having your machine start to play up.