[geeks] Little Falls 2 System Power Consumpion Question

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Fri Dec 5 13:47:16 CST 2008


On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 07:10:37PM +0000, Mark Benson wrote:
> I've got a Little Falls 2 (Atom 330 Dual Core) board with a 2GB DDR2  
> strip on, a 250GB 3.5" Barracuda 7200.11 and a Sound Blaster Audigy2  
> Platinum sound system. No DVD Drive (it works fine with a USB one).
> Do you guys think I could power all that on a Pico-PSU 80W adapter run  
> off a 60W brick?
> I'm thinking not safely, but I'm not sure.

I know the board + chipset pulls at least 45-50W (I have the Intel
single-core-Atom version of that board).  Depending on how much power the
sound card wants, *maybe*.

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
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