Comment on Can anyone tell me what PC will draw more power?
peereboominc@lemm.ee 7 months agoI do not agree with that.
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A PSU is the maximum what all the components combined are allowed to use. No more power than that is possible. If a system needs more than it’s PSU can deliver, it will become unstable (data loss, random restarts, etc.)
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The 2x750 is a redundant setup that servers have. Servers need to be able to run 24/7. With redundant PSU if one PSU has a failure, the other PSU will take over. Without any restarts. You can just pull the plug out of one of the PSU and all is just fine.
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I do agree with you that the max wattage is under load. Most home servers are running idle most of the time anyway.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 months ago
that’s why there’s 2x 750’s instead of a single 1500 watt, yes. but they’re frequently capable of drawing more than the 750 watts under high demand loads. which is kinda why I put that bit in parenthesis. The OP has said they have it unplugged.
first point is literally what I said.