--- paul marwick  wrote:

> In article
>
,
> "Harry Travis" wrote:
> 
> > The claim of capacity from a PSU being reserved for fans is new.
> Why do
> > you think that is so? Are all fans on a unique voltage or powered
> by a
> > their own regulators?
> 
> Given that the average fan draws less than 10 watts (in most cases
> _much_ less that 10 watts) the figure is either wrong or someone was
> anticipating a _lot_ of fans in a machine :)
> 
Let's see,
one or two fans on the PSU, my midtower case has spaces for two fans in
the back, two in the front, one on the side. A fan on the CPU, video
cards have fans on them now, Add some HDD fans (two on a drive slot
adapter) and we can have pretty darn close to 120 watt draw, and I'm
sure we can find more places to put more fans. Not to mention some USB
powered fans for personal comfort!

But my question is, if we don't put that many fans on our PSU, how does
it know it needs to reserve some power for the nonexistent fans?

Franklin


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