Have I been lucky?

[Lmeow]

Hello

I've been running this for five and a half years:

-AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.2GHz
-ASUS K8N Mobo
-Leadtek Winfast A400 (GeForce 6800 AGP)
-Two IDE drives, one @ 5400RPM, the other @ 7200RPM
-Two DVD Burners

On a generic brand, Hyena 300W PSU. My computer's only crashed once, many years ago probably due to driver conflict.
Am I lucky, or do people just overestimate their PSU requirements?

 

[obsidian86]

with all that luck you could've won the lotto .. twice

 

[jsc]

Two factors here:
The 300 watts - People either over estimate their power requirements or deliberately over spec their PSU's.
The generic PSU - you have been lucky.

The reason that PSU probably has survived is that it hasn't been that heavily loaded.

 

[suzhicheng07]

my computer disposition：AMD 4 CORE ATHLON 630+ATI HD4830
PSU is 400W max，rated power is 300W
In fact,included my 18.5 inch LCD,the whole consumption is lower than 100W when
I was playing 2D online games of two clients. So you see, am I over estimated the consumption of my computer?No, I tell you!

 

[JohnnyLucky]

We typically find that manufacturers of video cards and typical gamers gamers overestimate power requirements.

 

[hundredislandsboy]

That sounds like it's more common than good luck. I had a generic 350 watt PSU for 10 years on AMD 350 Mhz system that was still strong when I gave donated the computer.