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Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian?

From Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian?
Date 2022-03-04 16:40 +0100
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On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 04:24:40PM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> I've heard that for gaming you would want a 600~800W PSU [1]
> but how do I know how many W I need for my computer use?
> I think the most resource-intense I do would be compiling and
> watching multimedia on mpv. [2]
>

That depends on the components in the computer.
The reason why gaming configuration often require a more
powerful power supply, because these use parts which consume
in general more power (gpu mainly).
 
> Can you use powertop(1) for this or some other tool or can it
> not be measured at the software level? And if it can't, can
> you estimate it somehow?

just sum up the thermal max load of the parts (you need the spec sheets).
and add 25% for general inefficiency. 

> 
> TIA
> 
> [1] https://www.windowscentral.com/be-quiet-pure-power-11-fm-review
> 
> [2] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/ebchw/COMPUTER
>     https://dataswamp.org/~incal/SOFTWARE
> 
> -- 
> underground experts united
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal
> 

-- 
Henning Follmann           | hfollmann@itcfollmann.com

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how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-04 16:30 +0100
  Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-04 16:40 +0100
  Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2022-03-04 16:40 +0100
    Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-04 17:00 +0100
      Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-04 18:00 +0100
        Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-04 19:10 +0100
          Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2022-03-04 20:20 +0100
            Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-04 23:10 +0100
          Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2022-03-04 22:20 +0100
            Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-05 01:40 +0100
              Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Ash Joubert <ash@transient.nz> - 2022-03-05 02:10 +0100
                Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-05 02:30 +0100
                Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Ash Joubert <ash@transient.nz> - 2022-03-05 03:00 +0100
                Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-05 09:00 +0100
                Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2022-03-05 09:00 +0100
              Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-05 02:10 +0100
        Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-04 19:10 +0100
  Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-03-04 16:50 +0100
    Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-04 17:10 +0100
      Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-03-04 17:50 +0100
        Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-04 18:50 +0100
          Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-03-04 20:40 +0100
            Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-04 21:00 +0100
            Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-04 23:20 +0100
          Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-03-04 20:40 +0100
            Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-04 23:20 +0100
        Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2022-03-04 19:00 +0100
          Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-04 19:00 +0100
  Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Alexis Grigoriou <alexis@nanoid.net> - 2022-03-04 17:20 +0100
    Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-04 17:30 +0100
    Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-04 19:00 +0100
      Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-03-04 19:40 +0100
        Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2022-03-04 22:20 +0100
          Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-04 23:10 +0100
          Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2022-03-04 23:40 +0100
            Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-05 00:00 +0100
              Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2022-03-05 00:30 +0100
                Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-05 01:30 +0100
                Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2022-03-05 20:30 +0100
                Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-06 01:00 +0100
                Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-06 07:10 +0100
                Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2022-03-06 13:00 +0100
                Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2022-03-06 16:10 +0100
                Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-07 18:50 +0100
                Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2022-03-07 19:10 +0100
                Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-08 20:00 +0100
                Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2022-03-08 22:00 +0100
            Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2022-03-05 09:10 +0100
              Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-03-05 16:10 +0100
        Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-04 23:00 +0100
  Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Ash Joubert <ash@transient.nz> - 2022-03-05 00:50 +0100
    Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-03-05 01:20 +0100
      Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-05 01:40 +0100
      Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Ash Joubert <ash@transient.nz> - 2022-03-05 02:00 +0100
    Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-05 01:50 +0100
      Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Ash Joubert <ash@transient.nz> - 2022-03-05 02:10 +0100
        Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-03-05 02:30 +0100
          Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian? Ash Joubert <ash@transient.nz> - 2022-03-05 02:50 +0100

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