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franks_geckos Rated PG
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I am doing fine, thank you. Turned out to just be the PSU. I did remove the old 360W PSU and tested it on an older PII board that the kids use and it worked fine, however, after swapping an Abit AN7 motherboard into my desktop I found that it (the ABit board)too would not even get past the POST. After much grumbling I went out and bought a 30 dollar 430W PSU and it worked, even with my original Asus board which I put back in. Now I have to return the Abit board, but at least I am up and running inside of 2 days with paying someone a bundle to fix it for me. |
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Posted: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:42:13 Post Subject: |
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franks_geckos wrote: | I am doing fine, thank you. Turned out to just be the PSU. I did remove the old 360W PSU and tested it on an older PII board that the kids use and it worked fine, however, after swapping an Abit AN7 motherboard into my desktop I found that it (the ABit board)too would not even get past the POST. After much grumbling I went out and bought a 30 dollar 430W PSU and it worked, even with my original Asus board which I put back in. Now I have to return the Abit board, but at least I am up and running inside of 2 days with paying someone a bundle to fix it for me. |
I hope your not keeping a 430W PSU you bought for $30 or you'll be likely to have the same problem(s) again. Do yourself a favor and buy something name brand, I prefer Enermax or Asus (I opt for the lower cost of these usually).
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Posted: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:40:53 Post Subject: |
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It's not much more money for a name-brand unit Frank and the slightly increased costs outweigh any benefits of the "cheapies."
Most importantly, you'll get a warranty. Major manufacturers guarantee their units for a minimum of one year, usually more. Antec for example gives no hassles if you have any issues with the PSU.... they'll take a damaged unit back no questions asked.
Your system will have guaranteed stability, you won't have to worry about poor power regulation and you'll have more piece of mind. Random reboots etc. should be minimized with the name brand units.
Finally, consider the efficiency of the "cheapies" vs. the name-brand units. You can be assured the Antec and Enermax units will be much more efficient than the non-brand units.
The costs associated with running a non-efficient PSU could far exeed the $40 your saving vs. going to the name-brand units in less than a year.
(You'll be wasting energy and on top of that the wasted energy [heat] will make it more difficult to cool your computer room in the summer, further increasing operating costs...).
Newegg has the Antec Truepower 430W for $70.00
http://www.newegg.com/app/manufact.asp?catalog=58&DEPA=1 _________________ - Jim |
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