2 Questions?

[rick106]

Hi people,
I have two problems that i would like help with,thanks

1) I only have a 230 Watt power supply and have just bought a ton of fans(2x120mm and 3x80mm). I only have one molex left as i have a CDRW and a CD-rom and 2 hard drives. Will all these fans be ok connected to one molex, or is it new power supply time? If so where can I pick up a cheap PSU in the UK.

2) i have also just bought a Globalwin Fop38. This comes with a 60mm fan but im going to replace it with a 80mm fan. Should this 80mm fan be connected to the motherboard or to the PSU?

Thanks

Richard

 

[Mr B]

Most definitely time for a new PSU. 230 just won't cut it, if you plan on running an adaquate number of cooling fans. I'd get at least a 300W Enermax, maybe a 400W.

I'd connec that to the PSU, instead of the mb. Connecting to the mb will draw voltage away from the expansion cards, and might induce stability issues.

Mr B

 

[rick106]

Cheers, do u know where a cheap place to get one is over the internet or in the UK,

Rich

 

[donnie]

Go to pricewatch.com you should find one there

 

[Phil]

depends how good a quality the psu is, I have a 235W psu on which I run 2x47cfm 80mm, 5x31 cfm 80mm, and 1x26cfm 60mm fan, this is a celeron 1.01ghz system as well and for all those fans I needed to create a fan bus becasue there would just be too many wires every where otherwise

 

[sims]

If you replace the fan with the 80mm look into adding some cowling around the fan to direct the air onto the HS and not waste it. I tried swapping the fans and didn't add cowling. The idle temps were cooler but under load it got too hot fast. So, I went back to the Delta and added a blowhole in the side of the case. That was a tremendous help.

I have a 300w PSU and had the fan attatched to the MB. No problems with it.