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The PSU in my HP laptop is rated 130W, but the brick I use whilst travelling is 90W. The peak consumption isn't anywhere near 100W at full load. It will even run and charge (very slowly) from a 65W brick. The PSU is clever enough to know what power brick it has at its disposal, and it'll ramp down various components so that it still functions. I wouldn't use a 65W long term but the 90W should be fine - it'll just get very hot. If your PSU is rated higher than your brick and at full load quite a lot then you might have a bit of trouble.
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Double-check your connector requirements, but in terms of power availability I think it's a great choice.
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This is what I could pull from the specs online of each:
Motherboard: 24-Pin ATX Power connector
Power Supply: 24-pin ATX power connector, 4-pin CPU power connector, SATA, PATA and floppy.
Looks good, right? The CPU, SATA, PATA and floppy are for the most part superfluous I'm guessing?
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Does look good. Go for it - and let us know your results!
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2012-01-17, 17:16
Thanks sparky0! I actually just put this build together and I'm EXTREMELY happy- my build is running Avatar and equivalent at full frames, the only slowdowns I experience is when I navigate through a movie (forward/back) but then resumes full frames in half a second.
However, your post prompted me to check out the temperature and it IS running a little hot, which is a concern. I'm putting a fan in tonight and I'll let you know if the temperature situation improves. But currently it's running at about 50 degrees celsius just running xbmc and nothing else. Speedfan is telling me this a bit hot.