parhelia and shuttle

[tutkija]

shuttle pc has only 200W power and according to matrox parhelia needs 300W. Anyone has experience of this combination, possible or not. Really appreciate any feedback

[a_h]

I think all you can do is to try it. The power number itself doesn't say anything about it. It really depends on your computer, which cpu you use, how many drives you have...

[K6-III]

Maybe you should ask Matrox in the support forums...

[GT98]

I had my Parhelia in my shuttle box for testing and I didn't find any problems with it, though it wasn't in the box extended period of time.

[tutkija]

Originally posted by K6-III
Maybe you should ask Matrox in the support forums...

Mayby i want actual opinion of real users and not just official status of matrox.

[bsdgeek]

I don't see why it wouldn't work, there are people using 9700s & 9800s in Shuttle boxes, and they consume around double the power Parhelia does.

[rylan]

Yeah, parhelia doesn't have a connector to draw power directly from the power supply, which means the AGP power spec is sufficient for it. So I wouldn't worry unless you're trying to overclock your motherboard and cpu.

[UtwigMU]

When I was troubleshooting, I posted BX board with either C366 or PII350, 32M of RAM and Parhelia on 200W codegen PSU.

Didn't boot into windows and run 3D stuff though, so I don't know.

Parhelia uses maximum 30W (Haig said so).

[TdB]

according to this it can use up to 36 watt under heavy load: http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/90...011358_PIC.gif

[Rigel]

I use a Parhelia in my Shuttle It works fine, but it gets pretty warm since the Suttle has no airholes close to the fan. I would recomend you to make a ventinghole close to the GPU with a fan guard and a filter.