Many people here like the Antec Trupower line. Get the best one you can afford. If you're hardware says 300W is a minimum, I'd go for at least 350W-400W. There are other good brands as well. Just stay away from the cheapo no-name stuff.
Many people here like the Antec Trupower line. Get the best one you can afford. If you're hardware says 300W is a minimum, I'd go for at least 350W-400W. There are other good brands as well. Just stay away from the cheapo no-name stuff.
That, and I can tell you for sure that the $8 "580W" PSU is a complete peice of garbage.
Crap I better tell both my dual opterons, the single opteron and the other four amd 64bit systems here in my house running right now to shut their azz's down pronto as none of them are running on more then a $30 PSU MAX and they all run 24/7 without problems. I have had as many antec/enermax $100 PSU's fail as the $30 cheap 500 to 600 watt ones.
You don't need a $60 to $80 antec psu for a normal system. Of any kind.
Thanks! I better break now and start shutting all these computers down I guess.
he has a little friggin Dell and any reasonable 350 to 400 watt psu will hold that sucker up fine if his Dell MB supports non dell PSU's.
A $8 ebay psu may very well of meant to be sold for $30 to $40 new.
I just paid $107 for a amd 64 cpu that sells on newegg for $170. Is that a POS also? Or $200 for a pair of opterons that sell at newegg for $350. ebay prices don't tell a lot about quality of the unit. And he doesnt need much to power that rig. He has a 250 watt so even if the 580 watt doesnt really reach that advertised spec it is probably running at a fraction of its real power output.
I just bought a very NICE 350 watt TTGI psu for 10 bucks on eBay and ttgi is one of the best names in PSU's. Not a PC Power & Cooling equal but just as good as Antec or Enermax.
If you don't get a dell psu you better make sure you have a dremel or some sort of cutting tool. I can send nasty pics from school if you like! Not in my lab of course. :shakehead
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NEW 580-Watt Dual Fan PC ATX Power Supply 4 P4/AMD-XP
Its going for 8 bucks on ebay. And the seller has good feed back.
Crap I better tell both my dual opterons, the single opteron and the other four amd 64bit systems here in my house running right now to shut their azz's down pronto as none of them are running on more then a $30 PSU MAX and they all run 24/7 without problems. I have had as many antec/enermax $100 PSU's fail as the $30 cheap 500 to 600 watt ones.
You don't need a $60 to $80 antec psu for a normal system. Of any kind.
Thanks! I better break now and start shutting all these computers down I guess.
he has a little friggin Dell and any reasonable 350 to 400 watt psu will hold that sucker up fine if his Dell MB supports non dell PSU's.
A $8 ebay psu may very well of meant to be sold for $30 to $40 new.
I just paid $107 for a amd 64 cpu that sells on newegg for $170. Is that a POS also? Or $200 for a pair of opterons that sell at newegg for $350. ebay prices don't tell a lot about quality of the unit. And he doesnt need much to power that rig. He has a 250 watt so even if the 580 watt doesnt really reach that advertised spec it is probably running at a fraction of its real power output.
I just bought a very NICE 350 watt TTGI psu for 10 bucks on eBay and ttgi is one of the best names in PSU's. Not a PC Power & Cooling equal but just as good as Antec or Enermax.
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