- Joined
- Sep 2, 2002
- Location
- Haiku, Maui
set up a new system about 18 months ago with a gigabyte p35 mobo and a dual core intel cpu 2 gb of memory, 3 hard drives etc
i figured to by a kick-*** psu, so i went 100 dollars for a corsair 520hx which has about a million amps on the 12 volt line.
at the moment this psu has gone south, being that i am in europe it will cost me about 30 euros ship for replacement to Holland. that's another story.
but in the meantime I decided to mount my old psu on the system just to see if i could get up and running. it's a raidmax 400w with 18a on the 12volt line. well, that's for starters, also it only has a 20 socket atx connection uinstead of the 24 on the corsair. i am figuring "no way".
but my comp is up and running real fine now for a couple of days.
the bios voltage readouts are almost exactly the same as what i got on the corsair.
so, what is it with all the hype about psu's? folks are buying 1000 watt psu's these days. what do i really need?
i figured to by a kick-*** psu, so i went 100 dollars for a corsair 520hx which has about a million amps on the 12 volt line.
at the moment this psu has gone south, being that i am in europe it will cost me about 30 euros ship for replacement to Holland. that's another story.
but in the meantime I decided to mount my old psu on the system just to see if i could get up and running. it's a raidmax 400w with 18a on the 12volt line. well, that's for starters, also it only has a 20 socket atx connection uinstead of the 24 on the corsair. i am figuring "no way".
but my comp is up and running real fine now for a couple of days.
the bios voltage readouts are almost exactly the same as what i got on the corsair.
so, what is it with all the hype about psu's? folks are buying 1000 watt psu's these days. what do i really need?
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