ACTUAL power drawn by a PC+peripherals!

[Kumar]

see for yourself :hap2:

Cliffski’s Blog Computer stuff and power requirements

EDIT:

As the blogger says, even if an average gaming PC with a dual-core CPU+8800GTS+2GBRAM only consumes ~190W at peak, is it necessary to have all those 700W and 1KW SMPSes?

 

[kippu]

interesting ...

 

[Bluffmaster]

To be honest I haven't personally seen a blown power supply damage anything in a system but yeah it is possible and does happen, but its very very rare.

 

[Anish]

If he'd wire up all his components to that meter and then test it the results would probably have been different.

I don't know how that device works, but according to him, his kettle draws some 2kW so something somewhere is pretty messed up, I'll think it over by morning, too high on Germany's win right now!