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By woox
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I am planning on buying 8 gigabytes of RAM for a budget build I am making, but I am not sure whether the power supply can handle it. The model I am planning on buying is the Corsair Vengeance LP, 1.5V, 1600MHz, 2 x 4GB dual channel ddr3 kit. After some research, I found an article stating these things consume ~200W at max load, but that seems a little excessive to me. Can anyone here tell me with certainty how much power that kit might actually consume? Were the numbers at the article accurate?

 

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RAM eat 200Watts   :blink:  :blink:  :blink:

 

i think you saw the total power draw

 

they only use 1.5 volts or less

 

no way it can draw that high wattage

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Nah it won't use 200W. Nowhere near that at all.

 

RAM eat 200Watts   :blink:  :blink:  :blink:

 

i think you saw the total power draw

 

they only use 1.5 volts or less

 

no way it can draw that high wattage

A CPU runs on 0.9V-1.xV. This says nothing about power usage.

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I think RAM power consumptions are pretty much neglectable alongside harddrives and fans. Depending on the system as a whole you are building, we could make some suggestions about the total wattage needed.

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I am planning on buying 8 gigabytes of RAM for a budget build I am making, but I am not sure whether the power supply can handle it. The model I am planning on buying is the Corsair Vengeance LP, 1.5V, 1600MHz, 2 x 4GB dual channel ddr3 kit. After some research, I found an article stating these things consume ~200W at max load, but that seems a little excessive to me. Can anyone here tell me with certainty how much power that kit might actually consume? Were the numbers at the article accurate?

 

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200 watts, aha that is the funniest thing i have heard all day when i build rigs and a design them i dont even factor in wattage from the RAM, wouldn't worry dude!

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