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| 569134 | 2007-07-14 23:10:00 | with 500w power. I know its a cheap one but at the moment if my old Athlon 1400 and ASUS A7A266 motherboard check out OK thats what will go in it so as you can see its not a cutting edge system. I presume tho if I have to get a new motherboard/CPU say an Athlon64x2 or Pentium 4 3GHS it would still be fine for them? What originally started out as fixing up my old computer for the net appears to be turning into just about a new system ! But I'm quite enjoying the prospect of actually putting it all together, (with shaky hands :-) | Clod (7853) | ||
| 569135 | 2007-07-14 23:29:00 | it's plenty of power as far as wattage rating, although cheap brands tend to wildy exagerate. The real point that people try to make here regarding PSU's is why spend thousands on a pc and then be a cheapskate and run the whole lot on a cheap arse psu with the potential of causing stability issues or damaging your hardware. As for what size - it depends on what you run. The old hardware you mention willl be fine with almost any PSU, for a modern system a good quality PSU around 400-450 watts will run most systems, but installing one of the latest graphics card seriously pushes this up into the realms of 600W psu's If you ever install a high end graphics card check the manufacturers PSU reccomendations and make sure your's complies, an 8800GT for example specifies how many amps need to be available on the 12V rail ( 25 I think from memory ). Usually you can get away with a cheap PSU, but with reasonable ones available under $200 is it really worth the risk??? A themaltake toughpower 600W PSU for example is about this price and will run some serious hardware. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 569136 | 2007-07-14 23:43:00 | Yes I understand that but as I said its not for a topline system. I figure I could always update the psu later if needed. | Clod (7853) | ||
| 569137 | 2007-07-15 03:14:00 | If you mean Raidmax then the ones with the 520w are fine. The less than 520w I don't entirely like. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 569138 | 2007-07-15 06:17:00 | Sorry, yes the Raidmax is the one. | Clod (7853) | ||
| 569139 | 2007-07-15 11:13:00 | I just had 2 brand new raidmax 520 units go phstttttttttttt I wouldn't buy one ! |
apsattv (7406) | ||
| 569140 | 2007-07-15 20:14:00 | I just had 2 brand new raidmax 520 units go phstttttttttttt I wouldn't buy one ! I've had one Enermax and one Silverstone do that. Doesn't mean I wouldn't but them again. Nothing is 100% perfect, you look at the percentage of failures for a particular brand. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 569141 | 2007-07-16 01:57:00 | I've had one Enermax and one Silverstone do that. Doesn't mean I wouldn't but them again. Nothing is 100% perfect, you look at the percentage of failures for a particular brand. You had a Silverstone PSU go on you?, which model? |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 569142 | 2007-07-16 02:17:00 | I've had one Enermax and one Silverstone do that. Doesn't mean I wouldn't but them again. Nothing is 100% perfect, you look at the percentage of failures for a particular brand. Enermex just recalled all there 550w unit recently, still one of the best brands available. |
Pete O'Neil (6584) | ||
| 569143 | 2007-07-16 02:24:00 | You had a Silverstone PSU go on you?, which model? OP650. Took out my graphics card too. Nasty thing. It didn't exactly blow up, it just kept shutting my PC off all the time. I sent it back and bought another Enermax instead. One thing with the quality stuff, its rare to have other components affected, things like Hyena as my brother discovered, tend to take the whole PC with it. |
pctek (84) | ||
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