Posts by schizo1988

1) Message boards : Number crunching : AMD or Intel dual-core (Message 15880) Posted 11 May 2006 by schizo1988 Post: I am running Rosetta on a AMD X2 4400+ and using a 350 watt power supply and I have never had any problems. It is also my main computer and I do lots of Video Encoding and have a 300GB Seagate SATA drive, a 250GB Seagate SATA drive and a 250GB Western Digital SATA drive connected to it, also 2 X 1GB Dual Channel Ram, and a BFG 6800GT OC 256MB PCIE card and I can overclock stably at 2.4 GHZ and my RAC typically runs around 1300-1400 and I can cool it using 2 60mm fans pushing air in and a 90mm pulling air out. So I suppose a huge power supply is not always necessary. My motherboard is a MSI K8n NEO4-F. I simply love the dual core AMD it can handle everything I have thrown at it so far, and I love to multi-task.