Power Supply Unit

[Richard Dower]

Yeah, but he thinks a Sempron 2400+ is very old and obsolete

It's not an FX-55 @ 3.0Ghz is it?

 

[Brooks Moses]

They don't, but most guys here are builders and techno nerds, or is it just
me?

Occasionally you get a weird sort of techno-nerd builder who likes to
try for the minimum hardware necessary to get good performance, rather
than all-out for best performance. Like me. It's an interesting
challenge, and often a lot cheaper.

- Brooks

 

[IsaacKuo]

Occasionally you get a weird sort of techno-nerd builder who likes to
try for the minimum hardware necessary to get good performance, rather
than all-out for best performance. Like me. It's an interesting
challenge, and often a lot cheaper.

And then there are us techno-nerd builders who are going after
a different idea of "best performance", like building toward
system quietness. I'll take a quiet quality 300w over a
quality 500w PSU any day! If I'm consuming more power than that,
then I'm already doing something seriously wrong toward my
quietness goals...

Isaac Kuo

 

[Youra nama]

I would like to describe my recent experience with a power supply and
ask your opinion about it.
I bought Powmax LP-6100D, 400W power supply unit in December of 2004.
I chose this one because I had had used a Powmax 300W LP-6100C happily
for longer than one year.
As soon as I installed it, I noticed a high-pitched noise through the
speakers when I booted the computer. I also noticed its 3.3V line was
erratic according to the Asus Probe monitor. The voltage fluctuates
more than 10% and often up to 15%. Another missing item was the 3-pin
Fan monitor connector which was prsent in the 300W one and still
described to be present as a feature.
[http://www.svc.com/pow-400uc-75.html]

I wanted to return it but I had already discarded the box and other
packaging material that were used to ship it. I ended up buying anther
one so that I could use its box to return the first one in it.
The second one behaved exactly in the same way as the first one. The
first one was not "defective" after all. The quality of the product
was bad. I decided to keep both because the vendor would say they were
not defective and charge me 20% re-stocking fee. I did not think it is
not worth the hassle and return shipping charges and re-stocking fees.
I installed the first unit into two different computers with the
identical results, which indicated the problems were not specific for
a particular setup. I tend to think that the unstable 3.3V line and
the high-pitched noise. What do you think? You can have a look at the
voltage monitor chart and hear the noise for yourself at
http://www.yoon.bz/pub/Power.html.

powmax are unadulterated crap and you are real lucky to get 1 "good" one..
which i am still finding hard to believe
try a TTGI you will pay for it but quality often cost money but i thought
it was reasonable @ 80

 

[Matt]

Why would my parents-in-law need all that for surfing the net, word
processing and reading e-mail?

Barry, you don't seem to be getting the idea that the goal of this group
and homebuilding in general is to build a system that would make Richard
Dower proud.

 

[Richard Dower]

Barry, you don't seem to be getting the idea that the goal of this group
and homebuilding in general is to build a system that would make Richard
Dower proud.

No, it's getting with the times. I'll be going Dual Core as soon as they
drop.

 

[Matt]

No, it's getting with the times. I'll be going Dual Core as soon as they
drop.

I see. Then I propose that we change the name of the group to
alt.get-with-the-times.

Dual Core---hey you know you are really with it.

 

[Gary Newman]

No, it's getting with the times. I'll be going Dual Core as soon as

they drop.

compensating?

 

[Richard Dower]

I see. Then I propose that we change the name of the group to
alt.get-with-the-times.

Might be a good idea.

Dual Core---hey you know you are really with it.

Yup, being a nerd is costing me a fortune!

 

[Richard Dower]

compensating?

Psycho babble 101, just because you're into a hobby don't mean you live in
your moms basement and only see light of day once a year.

 

[BarryNL]

They don't, but most guys here are builders and techno nerds, or is it just
me?

Dunno, I build to requirements. For my parents-in-law, that means
building them a cheap PC that can handle basic office apps and web
surfing. For me, it means a fast processor and big chunks of memory so I
can run Java IDEs & J2EEs and VMWare. Neither of these setups needs over
300W of power though.

 

[BarryNL]

No, it's getting with the times. I'll be going Dual Core as soon as they
drop.

Why? What real world requirement do you have that needs a dual-core?

 

[Richard Dower]

Why? What real world requirement do you have that needs a dual-core?

Because it's the latest and greatest, why do companies keeping making new PC
products every few months?....money, they prey on geeks like us who must
have all the latest gear.

It's supply and demand, real world is whatever company pushes the market
toward, thus Intel and AMD are going Dual Core. And consumers will follow.