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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: brozozo on August 29, 2007, 08:25:14 pm

Title: Power supply woes
Post by: brozozo on August 29, 2007, 08:25:14 pm

Dear HLP,

My power supply died. I guess I forgot to ground myself when I was cleaning out some dust. Oh, well. I need a new one. I'm clueless about power supplies, and I'm looking for some advice. Keep in mind, I'm a poor college student again.

Also, does anyone know of any cheap (or free) and reliable backup solutions?

Title: Re: Power supply woes
Post by: jr2 on August 29, 2007, 08:52:23 pm

As for backup,

1. burn DVDs
2. buy an external hard disk.

As for power supplies, IDK; I'd be interested to know myself.  I know you don't want the cheap ones; but I'm not too familiar with the brand names TBH.

Title: Re: Power supply woes
Post by: Excalibur on August 29, 2007, 11:51:44 pm

Take some of Goober's 5000 ;)

*runs, but is too late*

 :beamz:

Title: Re: Power supply woes
Post by: Ashrak on August 30, 2007, 01:37:49 am

buy an enermax darkpower

Title: Re: Power supply woes
Post by: Cyker on August 30, 2007, 02:36:51 am

The Seasonic S12+ and S12II are good PSUs. Not very flashy, but they work solidly and stably.

Cheapest way to backup is still to buy a big-enough USB HD and dump everything on that. Or DVD's if you have the patience...

Title: Re: Power supply woes
Post by: CP5670 on August 30, 2007, 02:57:07 am

The Corsair HX520 (rebadged Seasonic) seems to be the best overall option right now. You can get it for $80 at Buy.com if you do the rebate and use Google Checkout. The Enhance ENP-5150GH at ewiz is another good one, but it has gone up in price recently.

Title: Re: Power supply woes
Post by: Bob-san on August 30, 2007, 02:13:48 pm

I'd say a Seasonic S12 or a Thermaltake Purepower. The Seasonic S12 is a better quality PSU, though the Thermaltake Purepower isn't so shabby and costs a bit less for similar wattage.

Title: Re: Power supply woes
Post by: Scuddie on August 30, 2007, 06:10:01 pm

It would be nice to have a PSU embedded into a UPS device.  That way it could receive a direct +12V supply and not have to worry about rails.  Imagine a system running a quad SLI'd 8800GTX without stressing the PSU :D.

Title: Re: Power supply woes
Post by: Ashrak on August 31, 2007, 06:04:45 am

yeah all the dozens of cables are gonna be So easy to manage.

Title: Re: Power supply woes
Post by: Nuke on August 31, 2007, 06:53:48 am

i just blew up a psu yesterday. bought it to replace the dying psu in my old rig (and i mean old, a p4 2.4ghz chip one of the early ones, a gutter-level geforce 4, and 256 megs of bad ram). it was used and i bought it at state surplus for about 5 bucks. i hooked it up right and booted. sence it worked i started taking apart the old psu. opened it up, discharged the caps and disconnected the fan. i soldered the fan to an old molex i wasnt using so i could hook it up for a quick test. now sanity dictates that i turn off the machine *before* plugging in the fan. now we all know nuke is not a man of sanity, so i lazily hook the thing up to my new cheap psu. that was a hell of a light show, fortunately i didnt die. unfortunately the psu and possibly the computer were dead. and sence i jad just dismanteled the other psu (had destructively de-soldered some useful components), i didnt have a spare i could use to test. oh well, i still got 3 computers left. i just hope i didnt fry my laptop drives (adapted for tower with hot clue gun + adapter)/wireless network card. i have uses for those.