Yamaha Digital Sound Projector: The next big thing in home audio

Instead of having tons of speakers around your living room to get surround sound, why not just have one. This 40 inch long component has 42 individual speakers that will project sound all around you from one box. It was just released! One thing to keep in mind is that you should probably also get a subwoofer for deep bass with this system.

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How big of a power supply do I need for my computer?

Well, just add up the sum of the components. Power Supplies usually come in sizes from 300 to 500 Watts. I say 350 is plenty, anything more is overkill unless you have an SLI Dual Processor System. Ohms law is the curent in amperes times the Voltage in Volts equal the Power in watts, or IV=P

Here are some typical values for common components:

AGP video card - 20-30W
PCI video card - 20W
AMD Athlon 900MHz-1.1GHz - 50W
AMD Athlon 1.2MHz-1.4GHz - 55-65W
Intel Pentium III 800MHz-1.26GHz - 30W
Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz-1.7GHz - 65W
Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz-2.0GHz - 75W
Intel Celeron 700MHz-900MHz - 25W
Intel Celeron 1.0GHz-1.1GHz - 35W
ATX Motherboard - 30W-40W
128MB RAM - 10W
256MB RAM - 20W
12X or higher IDE CD-RW Drive - 25W
32X or higher IDE CD-ROM Drive - 20W
10x or higher IDE DVD-ROM Drive - 20W
SCSI CD-RW Drive - 17W
SCSI CD-ROM Drive - 12W
5400RPM IDE Hard Drive - 10W
7200RPM IDE Hard Drive - 13W
7200RPM SCSI Hard Drive - 24W
10000RPM SCSI Hard Drive - 30W
Floppy Drive - 5W
Network Card - 4W
Modem - 5W
Sound Card - 5W
SCSI Controller Card - 20W
Firewire/USB Controller Card - 10W
Case Fan - 3W
CPU Fan - 3W