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dancer
25 Jun 2004, 12:30am
Hi.
I have a 470w Topower PSU, and too many hdd's etc.
I have attatched a pic of my volts, just making sure that they are ok.
And if not, what would be the best psu for me.
Possibly looking at the
Antec 550 Truepower.

Thanks.
http://218.214.47.99/volts.jpg

mmonnin
25 Jun 2004, 12:33am
They are within tolerance but on the low side. The Antec you mentioned is a great Power Supply.

dancer
25 Jun 2004, 12:41am
Sometimes when i try to print some disks on my canon i865 printer it'l just hang the system.
So i was thinking it could be the psu.
6 Sata hdd's, 4 Optical devices, Floppy, Usb mouse, K/b, printer, card reader, couple of external usb hdd's, internally powered watercooler, Gfx5900xt, P4 2.4c @3.12
Plus i might want to add more.
The otheroption i was thinking about would be to mod a case with 2 psu's.

mmonnin
25 Jun 2004, 12:49am
All those HDDs are lowering your 12V line. Man thats a lot of stuff.

dancer
25 Jun 2004, 12:54am
592gb hdd. (2x36g Raptors, 2x120g sata maxtors, 1x 120g sata seagate, 1x 160gb sata seagate.)
2 dvdburners, 1 dvd-rom, 1 cd-rw.

dancer
10 Jul 2004, 3:23pm
well i went and got that antec 550w'er.
Much better now.
Also changed to 2x200gb seagate sata's instead of 120+160.
Thanks.
http://203.122.204.135/volts2.jpg

mmonnin
10 Jul 2004, 7:35pm
Your 3.3V Rail is much better now.

radar
13 Jul 2004, 12:22am
hey i am new to this but where are you making these graphs from?

dancer
13 Jul 2004, 12:24am
i'm using Motherboard Monitor to monitor my vols and temps, then just doing a Prt Scr and copy the clipboard to MS Paint, then edit out the rest of the desktop.

radar
13 Jul 2004, 12:38am
where can i get the mother board monitor?

mmonnin
13 Jul 2004, 12:57am
On the short-media downloads section:
http://www.short-media.com/download.php?dc=47

radar
13 Jul 2004, 1:27am
I downloaded the file and ran it but it just brings up the command prompt and then closes it... i am running windows 2000 server...