AboutKeith Expertise For home computer owners perform complete system builds, software and hardware upgrades, troubleshooting and repairs, data recovery, anti-virus, and anti-spyware across all Windows platforms on desktops and laptops. Small network set-up.
Experience 8 years experience as a self-employed PC technician with 100% customer satisfaction.
Education/Credentials Self-taught but am currently working on my CompTia Network certification
Question I'll be running two PC's in one commercial unit. The PC's will be doing basic performance monitoring, and event logging. The event logging will be stored on the Hard drive for 48hours. What sort of power output and heat dissipation would I expect from this very limited spec I've given. The two PC's will not share any item, they are totally seperate, including PSU's. I haven't chosen any motherboards, processors or memory yet, but would appreciate a very rough estimate.
Answer If you don't mind clarify what you mean by "one commercial unit". Are they going to be enclosed together in some kind of container?
I am going to assume many things and give you some general information.
I will assume that, from the tasks you listed, the PCs will be pretty simple workstations. Most office or home/office PCs have between 250-350 Watt power supplies. When building PCs I use 400 to 750 Watt power supplies.
On heat dissipation, if the PCs are out in the open and not in a hot room they will be fine. If they are in some kind of cabinet or container the cabinet or container should have some kind of fresh air intake with a fan. The fan should be at least 120mm. The PCs should not be kept on top of each other or on end together.
If there are in other questions or information you can give me, let me know.
