Fastest G4 Ever

[DesmoPilot]

It's borderline trolling. Is that a good thing to you somehow?

I post opinions and suggestions based off of my personal experience, can't help if people don't find them useful.

You can easily find a lower wattage PSU for a small home server/htpc type setup. Also, just because a PSU is rated for 400W or what have you, doesn't mean it's constantly pulling that amount of power. For example, my home server/htpc (with 4TB storage) is based around a 300W PSU. From the wall at idle, only pulls 25-30W, at load it doesn't go over 140W!

 

[zen.state]

I post opinions and suggestions based off of my personal experience, can't help if people don't find them useful.

You can easily find a lower wattage PSU for a small home server/htpc type setup. Also, just because a PSU is rated for 400W or what have you, doesn't mean it's constantly pulling that amount of power. For example, my home server/htpc (with 4TB storage) is based around a 300W PSU. From the wall at idle, only pulls 25-30W, at load it doesn't go over 140W!

Same goes for those ~200 watt PSU's in the earlier G4's. They won't always use all the current it capable of and would only go near the max if it was filled with hard drives. I have never seen any modern PSU below 350 and after just doing a google search for "home theatre psu" it found all 400+ watt.

The number you are hinting at would only come from a laptop or mac mini or shuttle type system. These all require external storage which adds to the overall wattage used in a building.

You need to understand that your thinking is a bit off the reality we all live in and it only offers your skewed view to the question at hand rather than offer assistance for what they are actually asking.

 

[DesmoPilot]

The number you are hinting at would only come from a laptop or mac mini or shuttle type system. These all require external storage which adds to the overall wattage used in a building.

Well I didn't just pull that number out of a hat, I used a meter plugged into my power bar to measure the power, at idle it pulled ~25-30W. Anyways, off topic.

You need to understand that your thinking is a bit off the reality we all live in and it only offers your skewed view to the question at hand rather than offer assistance for what they are actually asking.

I appreciate your opinion!