I'm looking to build a media center. Can the built in power supply handle a harddrive, the mother board and a tv turner
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No problems so far, have had it up and running about 4 months. My system consist of 95 watt processor, dvd drive, and network card. Power supply seems ok, but a little noisy.
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I just bought an android box with xbmc from matricom and works great streaming media and every thing else.
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I recommend replacing the ps first thing. The case is really nice but the ps is really poorly constructed.
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Hi Sumeet,I don't know if your pc was compatible, but I recommend you check how many connections needs your motherboard and the size of your actual power supply and compare.I used in a old HP Pavilion Media Center.
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Since you can't do any real hardcore gaming with this card, a 300-350 Watt power supply will work on a system with a single hard drive, DVD-RW and basic CPU heat sink. Anything more advanced you'd want to look at at least a 400-450 watt power supply (if you're running 3+ fans and more than one hard drive, you should already have at least a 400 watt power supply). As always, try to stay with name brands when it comes to a power supply. Antec, Corsair, EVGA and OCZ are all reliable but in a pinch Cooler Master and ThermalTake will do.
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Yes, should work fine. My Desktop had 500W in it when I was using this. It will be a VERY tight fit in that case though.
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No, it won't even power the hard drive, I tried it and didn't work, probably using the current adapter may work.
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I was able to run the TV power cable, 4 hdmi, 1 toslink, and a cat 5 e cable though it. The power cable was similar to the that goes into a computer tower. I did have pull them through in 2 groups power first and the rest second.
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Cannot answer. This power supply has a 5.5 mm female plug with a positive center receptacle. Need to identify your hard drive input requirement and/or use an adapter.
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It sounds like you are trying to build a miner, or a HTPC. If it is a miner, it should be more than enough power. I've seen specs of mining builds with as little as 250W PSUs. However, if you are building a media server, you might want to push up the wattage to at least 550, just to be safe on the power output. On the outside, if this is a gaming machine, you might be on the low side of adequate. But, it would work. This PSU was out-of-the-box compatible with a 3rd Gen Ivy Bridge Intel processor which, at the time of my build, was what was available for my price range. So, it may work well with a Haswell or later, but I am unable to guarantee it. Hope that helps!
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There are two half-size open slots, but I doubt you'd be able to install anything with decent power since there's no graphics card power cable, and the PSU on this is 90w max. The Intel Graphics card and 4 core i3 CPU has plenty of power to use this as an HTPC with the built-in graphics. If you want a gaming PC, look elsewhere.
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Hi,the right questions is, can a 300w power supply handle this motherboard?,the answer is yes,but you need to take into account,that your are going to be very limited if you want to install high consumption devices like graphic cards or 8 cores processors,i suggest to use a more powerfull PSU,at least 500 Watts for better performance.
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Its fine for a typical middle powered htpc. Most people aren't putting top of the line graphics cards and processors in an htpc enclosure. Its designed to be quiet not for massive over clocks.
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I can't say for sure since I returned mine. However I would find it doubtful. Frankly if you are looking to make a "media center" with multiple drives connected I think you will be much happier with a small inexpensive PC connected to your TV than you would with this device. The Homesync is not at all ready for prime time imo. Very clunky and severely limited at this time, compared to what a real media center pc can do (say running XBMC).
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That should work fine, as long as you don't have too many other things drawing power from the power supply. I believe the recommendation is for a 750, but that assumes you might have multiple drives, etc.
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The power supply is not in the way of hard drives. You neef a small form factor video card or onbpard to accomodate 6 drives.
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Yes you can. I hope you have a good enough PSU to suffice the power consumption of those babies. A 850w PSU will do nicely!
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It depends on how many hard drives your system has installed. That graphics card draws 372 watts at full load. The motherboard draws between 150 and 250 watts. Hard drives under full load draws around 40 watts. This power supply should work without any problems unless you have a system with a lot of components. I had an initial problem because I have 7 hard drives and one Blu-ray drive in the system that I put this power supply in. Just make sure to put only 2 hard drives per physical SATA power cable. This supply comes with 4 cables to connect peripherals. This is a great supply. It should work fine for you. Hope this helps.
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Yes you should be able too. I will warn you that you still need to have power to the HDD as well as the small four pin power connector on the adapter.