On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:11:06 GMT, "Pete"
wrote:

I have just bought a Ultra Xconnect power supply 400watts to use in
conjunction with a AMD 3500+ and skt 939 board.

Here it is:
http://www.ultraproducts.com/product...roductID=3 04

It says it supports Pentium 4 and AMD CPUs and meets ATX version 2.03 and
ATX 12V version 1.2 specification.

When I bought it I thought it was the dogs ******** but now I see
motherboards with 24 pin PSU connectors and wonder what's going on.


Have I bought a lemon?

Yes, but it has nothing to do with above issue of 24 pins or
not. It's a lemon because it's a junk PSU dressed up with
frivolous things. This is also why many of them are about
$10 after rebate as recurring specials at Radio Shack,
etc... but are =500 pseudo-watts instead of 400.

If your system has integrated video, a very low powered
card, and not too many hard drives, you may find the psu
acceptible for the described system. I tend to feel Paul's
itemization of power consumption may miss a larger issue,
that we'd have to assume the PSU was capable of sustaining
that output first, and I mean sustain long term rather than
the day (if that) some website reviews try to use when
qualifying PSU.