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Programmer Holic
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Posted: 19th Sep 2004 19:32
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I'm after a new PSU as the fan on my old one stalls sometimes, or makes loud vibrating sounds. It's only 300W, and that probably wont be enough when I upgrade big time in December. I've been looking at these two:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=1852692334&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=61310


http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=1852709292&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X3Jldmlld3M=&product_uid=61308

What do you think to these? Another question, my current PSU uses a 2x2 power connector as well as the standard 2x10 one. The mobo book says it's to power the CPU. For a start, will the new PSU have one of these connector's and if not, will the PC just not work?
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Emperor Baal
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Posted: 19th Sep 2004 19:46
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If the psu is:

P4 Ready
Intel P4 Recommended
AMD Recommended

the 2x2 connector is included. Most of the time, the psu also has a weird 1x6? (not sure) connector.


I know it sounds weird, but you better get a good brand psu. No-brand ones like these don't supply (most of the time) the right voltages on rails (12V rail gets 11.5V - 12.5V). Expensive brand ones keep hovering between 11.9V - 12.1V
Also, cheap psu's like Q-TEC and such cannot handle power-hungry hardware like radeon 9600+ / geforce 5700+. They say the psu is capable of delivering 500W for 20$... yeah right.

If you need a cheap solution, just take cheap one (non-silver).

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Programmer Holic
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Posted: 19th Sep 2004 19:55
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My current voltages on ths PSU are
1.76
3.29
5.13
11.70

And I haven't had a problem yet. So do you think it's ok to go for the second (cheaper) one from ebuyer, or should I look for a dearer one?
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Teh Go0rfmeister
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Posted: 19th Sep 2004 20:01
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[href]www.aria.co.uk[/href] and search for "460W X-Pro Super SIlent PSU" i ordered this but im still waiting for it to arrive in teh post

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Programmer Holic
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Posted: 19th Sep 2004 23:18
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How does this one look?

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=35881
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Teh Go0rfmeister
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Posted: 20th Sep 2004 00:30
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330w, are you serius?

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Programmer Holic
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Posted: 20th Sep 2004 00:53
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Yes... why not? Other ones rated at 300 don't actually work at 300. A 500 may only go at 280ish. This actually goes at 300...
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