So you want power supply Info - Tech Support Forums

dafanman · October 17th, 2003, 02:08 AM

Dont know how many of you are familiar with this site, but they have tons of amd related info.

Here is all the power supply related information you could possibly use in one place.

Take the time to look thur, it has everything from roundups, to individual brand reviews.

Enjoy

http://www.amdboard.com/psu.html

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum

ArcticFox · October 17th, 2003, 05:16 PM

That's a good link, thanks for the info.

Tomteriffic · October 17th, 2003, 05:37 PM

Schweet! Thanks!

poopeyhed2 · October 17th, 2003, 08:37 PM

Excellent link

A nice comprehensive list on most of the PSU's out there.

Gait_Keeper · October 17th, 2003, 08:49 PM

superb linkie

dafanman · October 17th, 2003, 09:08 PM

Im glad that youre finding it usefull

With the number of users who are facing power issues with todays motherboard, and assorted power hungry components, I thought It would be helpful to have this resource available for users to view

John Prophet · October 17th, 2003, 09:14 PM

Nice looking stuff....yeah, I like it....and..as a matter of fact....I wrote those articles...its my site....yeah, thats the ticket....

Seriously though..they should "benchmark" a bunch of gay off brand psu's like the one I had to swap out today...a "tigerpro" and a bunch of stuff like that..the kind of supplies that come in all the $25 cases we buy.

Heck, we KNOW a 550watt antec is gonna work, show us what a 350 watt "shingshing" will do!

JP

dafanman · October 17th, 2003, 09:38 PM

All of us hardware guys should know better than to use most psu's that come with generic cases if it is for current intel or amd systems.

For the novice, they should be doing their legwork before purchasing enthusiast hardware.

Every fourm I go to, power supply is a constant and growing issue, was just at a forum where the question was
"can I use my 235 watt psu, with my xxxxx nforce2 board, multiple drives, xp3200, I gb ram, and ati 9800 vid card?

What can you say

John Prophet · October 17th, 2003, 09:46 PM

Well, it is interesting to see the power supplies in the sff stuff then, lol...arent they in the sub 300watt range..and running all kinds of athlons and P4's.

My interest in the generic type supplies is because....there are a lot of steps in between a Duron system with one hard drive and onboard video....and a full blown Barton with Raid this and 8x that. A seller cant really afford to put a seperate $85 for psu into the budget type builds.
JP

sfw1960 · October 31st, 2003, 09:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by dafanman
All of us hardware guys should know better than to use most psu's that come with generic cases if it is for current intel or amd systems.

For the novice, they should be doing their legwork before purchasing enthusiast hardware.

Every fourm I go to, power supply is a constant and growing issue, was just at a forum where the question was
"can I use my 235 watt psu, with my xxxxx nforce2 board, multiple drives, xp3200, I gb ram, and ati 9800 vid card?

What can you say

Um....
NO!!!

I loooooooooooooooooove my VanteC520A.......