how to determine PSU wattage

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

shimi <linux-il at shimi.net> writes:

> Assuming you can indeed measure the consumption of ALL the components
> on your computer (which I believe you cannot) - you still need to
> account for energy being converted to plain heat inside the PSU
> itself. This can easily get to 20% or even more on lousy PSUs.

As I mentioned, I was onlyinterested in the Watts for which the PSU was
rated, nominally. I solved the problem by powering the box off, popping
it open, and looking around. I was hoping for some vendor info (a
googlable make+model?)  accessible by management software, but I guess
there isn't.

Thanks, problem solved.

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Oleg Goldshmidt | pub at goldshmidt.org