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| Thread ID: 51593 | 2004-11-25 02:23:00 | Power Supply | noone (22) | Press F1 |
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| 296057 | 2004-11-25 21:29:00 | I'm also looking for a new psu as yesterday I put in a new 9800 pro vid card, and dv2000 tuner. My current is only 200w and the recommended is at least 300w. Is it better to get the max wattage? (to a limit of course) Does it make anything faster some how? Currently my new stuff seems to be worse than the old...eg...gone from geforce4 mx440 to radeon 9800pro (seems no better yet :-( ). Upgraded ram from 512 to 1gb. (Cant feel it!) Is psu installation easily done? Are there external ones and are they ok? P4 2.4ghz 1gb ddr ram xp home Gecube 9800pro vid card Cheers! |
Mcpisik (4924) | ||
| 296058 | 2004-11-26 01:14:00 | > 9800 pro vid card, and dv2000 tuner. My current is only 200w Is there black smoke coming out of the PSU? Does the hard drive have trouble spinning up? Seriously man, all that on a 200W is scary. Having said that: Yeah yeah, go and spend $150 on a new PSU. I buy a Leaf 400W power supply, for $27 wholesale (sell it for $59). It has never had any problems powering a system, and in the years I have used them, not one has ever failed in any way. It produces nearly double the current of the ICute one that came with my case. The only downside of it is I find it slightly noisier than some others. Only noticable in an otherwise quiet PC though. Cheers George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 296059 | 2004-11-26 01:18:00 | i just went and bought meself a EG425P-VE SFMA, Dual Fan, 420W ATX PSU ( Enermax ) , and even though it may be a bit more expensive i think that you can be sure that you got a good psu ( duel 12v rail etx ). How can you only have 200 W , ? , man i dont think the computer will even start with that one | noone (22) | ||
| 296060 | 2004-11-26 01:20:00 | >>My current is only 200w and the recommended is at least 300w Just a reminder - current is measured in amps :P lol i know what u mean, 200W??????? thats crazy |
Nighthawk (5846) | ||
| 296061 | 2004-11-26 01:23:00 | i think he was referring to his current psu | noone (22) | ||
| 296062 | 2004-11-26 01:23:00 | Hmmm, might have to have a look when I get home again. See what the full details say... | Mcpisik (4924) | ||
| 296063 | 2004-11-26 01:24:00 | > I'm also looking for a new psu as yesterday I put in > a new 9800 pro vid card, and dv2000 tuner. My current > is only 200w and the recommended is at least 300w. > Is it better to get the max wattage? (to a limit of > course) > Does it make anything faster some how? Currently my > new stuff seems to be worse than the old...eg...gone > from geforce4 mx440 to radeon 9800pro (seems no > better yet :-( ). Upgraded ram from 512 to 1gb. > (Cant feel it!) > Is psu installation easily done? > Are there external ones and are they ok? whoa...You doubled your ram and quadrupled your video and can't see any difference? What are u using your comp for?.........DOS games? Did you clean out the old drivers properly?...and raise the level of detail and resoultion to make use of all that grunt (i had someone in the other day stating the card they bought (elsewhere i might add) was no better then the onboard it replaced.....Setting the resolution in game was a foriegn concept to him,and whomever sold it to him as well) As to your PSU,the components will be thrashingf it to the edge of its life,expect it to die very soon,hopefully it won't kill any of your gear when it does. And no,there are no external PSU's,They have to reside in your case to suck out the evil spirits....uh....hot air. Are they easy to replace? Its possible to do it while blind drunk,blindfolded and strapped to the hood of a speeding car..... |
metla (154) | ||
| 296064 | 2004-11-26 01:24:00 | For the sake of interest, could you tell us what the current ratings are - that is current (measured in Amps). Cheers George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 296065 | 2004-11-26 01:47:00 | All of you people need to go do some research about PSU's (with the exception of Metla) theres far more to a PSU than the wattage. You need to take into account the quality and the current on each of the rails. Also things like the number of fans and how noisy they are can be important to some people. At the end of the day you get what you pay for. Mcpisik if i was you i wouldnt turn that PC on again untill i got a decent PSU, any 200w PSU regardless of brand would struggle, if not dies trying to power your PC. Your risking all your hardware by using that PSU. (That is unless its a shuttle PSU used in their SFF). I would reckonmend a 380w good brand PSU for your system, it will give you a lil head room to add more at a later date aswell. George your continual pimping of your own sub standard services and parts is getting annoying. Your PSU may have served you well but from what ive seen you run cellery with intergrated graphics not exactly a demanding system. Such a PSU would not be suitable as the original poster has a higher spec system, they also have a much higher budget so why not fully ultilize the budget to get the best possible. |
Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
| 296066 | 2004-11-26 03:13:00 | Pete/Metla, as usual, some quality input. Somewhere in there was a comment on 'did i change the settings to make the most of all the extras' Yep, sure did. They were all running pretty good already considering it was using a mx440 card. Have just confirmed from Compaq that it's definately a 200w psu. Doh.! What I'm thinking is, a new case with a psu built in, as my original case has a pretty small space to fit in a larger psu. Wouldn't mind a fancy gamers case while I'm at it. Any objections/ guides greatly appreciated. ( I admit I have no idea about the psu part, so feel free to rub it in!) My PC Compaq Presario 6240An Xp home sp2 now 1gb ram 9800pro vid card |
Mcpisik (4924) | ||
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