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Power Supply for New System
I am building a new system and I'm not sure if my current 300W power
supply is adequate. The system will have a Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo, AMD 2600+ Barton core, 512 MB 2700 memory (haven't decided what kind yet), a Nvidia TI 4200 (64MB). Do I need to get a 400W supply? I don't have a ton of money, and I can't afford one of the better ($50+) power supplies. Any recomendations? |
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w_tom wrote in message ...
To include essential functions required by computers even 30 years ago and even required by Intel specifications today, that supply costs typically $80+. To sell at a ridiculously lower price, supply manufacturers dump products that are missing essential functions such a line filtering and overvoltage protection (OVP). Even PC Power & Cooling occasionally sells its power supplies for less than $80, and similar quality and capacity products are widely available for less than half that much from dealers such as Directron.com. These are not surplus specials or seconds but current models and contain every disirable feature, with the possible exception of thermal shutdown. |
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jamarno wrote:
Even PC Power & Cooling occasionally sells its power supplies for less than $80, They have a dozen or so that meet that criteria all the time, including some in their Silencer & Turbo Cool series. |
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Power supplies vary quite a bit. What brand do you have?
I used to run 8 10k drives and 2 CDs in an AMD 450 system with lots of fans, PCI cards, and such with a PC Power & Cooling 220watt PS. Don't remember if I ran the same PS when I went to a 1gig Athlon.... Couldn't do that today with all the system components upgraded and sucking power but it does show that higher quality parts perform well while crap performs like..... well...... On 24 Jun 2003 09:04:05 -0700, (Naj) wrote: I am building a new system and I'm not sure if my current 300W power supply is adequate. The system will have a Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo, AMD 2600+ Barton core, 512 MB 2700 memory (haven't decided what kind yet), a Nvidia TI 4200 (64MB). Do I need to get a 400W supply? I don't have a ton of money, and I can't afford one of the better ($50+) power supplies. Any recomendations? ~~~~~~ Bait for spammers: root@localhost postmaster@localhost admin@localhost abuse@localhost ] ~~~~~~ Remove "spamless" to email me. The spam was just getting overwhelming. I had to... |
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