"Wilbure" said:
My power supply went bad, will this PS work for my MB. These are all the
Specs. I can find on it. Thanks in advance , its cheap but all I can afford
right now.
POWMAX 480 Watt Power Supply
Support Intel P4 and AMD Systems
-Complies with ATX Ver.2.03, 12V Ver. 1.1
-Low Acoustic Noise
-Short Circuit Protection
-Over Voltage Protection
-Thermal Overload Cut-Off Protection
$26
Max Load: +3.3@28A, +5@38A, +12@17A,
[email protected],
[email protected], +5vsb@2A
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-163-017&depa=0
The 17 amps on +12V looks to be sufficient.
I'd recommend a brand to you, but it is a lot like standing in
a used car lot and identifying the non-lemon cars by looking
at the paint color :-( A quick scan through the products on
the Newegg site, didn't turn up any cheap wonder supplies -
anything with a decent name had a price to match.
There is so much OEMing in the PSU industry, it is hard to
tell who makes which supplies. Antec, for example, doesn't make
their own supplies - they are made by ChannelWell and Heroichi.
It is possible the Powmax supply is made by someone else as well.
That makes it really hard to tell what you are buying.
There was a web site, that found a correlation between the physical
weight of a supply and its quality. I think that is why the
weight of the power supply is seldom mentioned in the advert copy,
for fear that customers could put that info to good use.
Good luck,
Paul
