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Power Supplies
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AMD's site has the best info you can get on the subject...and they seem to be very picky about power supplies
No problem! with a basic one CDrom, one harddrive setup with a couple of PCI cards.
BUT! add a writer and a geforce 4 4600Ti and you will be sailing very close to the wind.
There are 250watt units recommended on the AMD website but these are quality units not cheap Generic
$10 items.
You get what you pay for and you should not skimp on power supplies.
Our shop had the misfortune of building it's low end Durons in a particular case (autumn 2001)
These cases were fitted with Generic 300watt PSU's
A couple of months went by before the first systems started returning. The power supplies were failing but also taking out the 40gig Maxtor hard drives, some even had burnt out motherboards.
To date we have had to foot the bill for over 20 rebuilds, the wholesaler will only replace the PSU's and the HD supplier is wise to the returning harddrives so won't replace or refund them.
One last note* P4 ready power supplies, even generic! have to be made to delliver a certain output amperage, so if you have to go non branded generic choose P4 ready units. Martin
Please let members know if there advice has helped any.
BUT! add a writer and a geforce 4 4600Ti and you will be sailing very close to the wind.
There are 250watt units recommended on the AMD website but these are quality units not cheap Generic
$10 items.
You get what you pay for and you should not skimp on power supplies.
Our shop had the misfortune of building it's low end Durons in a particular case (autumn 2001)
These cases were fitted with Generic 300watt PSU's
A couple of months went by before the first systems started returning. The power supplies were failing but also taking out the 40gig Maxtor hard drives, some even had burnt out motherboards.
To date we have had to foot the bill for over 20 rebuilds, the wholesaler will only replace the PSU's and the HD supplier is wise to the returning harddrives so won't replace or refund them.
One last note* P4 ready power supplies, even generic! have to be made to delliver a certain output amperage, so if you have to go non branded generic choose P4 ready units. Martin
Please let members know if there advice has helped any.
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