Re: how many W a PSU for non-gaming Debian?
On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 08:32:24PM +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 06:46:50PM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> > Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >
> > >> But again, the GPU - if I don't play games, do I still need
> > >> the W for that, as high?
> > >
> > > What happens if your PSU doesn't have a high enough wattage
> > > is that things will work fine as long as your actual
> > > consumption is below the PSU's limit but if for some reason
> > > you push the system beyond the limit, then funny things
> > > can/will happen, including immediate shutdown, crash, ...
> >
> > Yeah, understood.
> >
> > Since "how many W are needed for a gaming card if you don't
> > play games?" isn't going to answer itself anytime soon I'm
> > gonna pull it and see if I can do mail, programming and mpv
> > just fine with the CPU only ...
>
> Besides, as soon as you boot your browser, the GPU will be
> sweating like five Dooms.
Unless you're also running GNOME, in which case it started sweating
as soon as the display manager booted up, and then got worse when you
logged in.
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