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indianatone, to be sure. Are you speaking of this one? http://www.amazon.com/Replacement-DP...s+power+supply
indianatone, to be sure. Are you speaking of this one? http://www.amazon.com/Replacement-DP...s+power+supply
This thread made me realize that it's been well over a year since I even turned on my desktop computer. I do everything on my work laptop (windows 8.1) and my personal laptop (13" MacBook Pro).
Want to sell it, Parks?
I left here using my daughter's Dell Inspiron laptop with 7. Not exactly a thrilling experience for me.![]()
The thing is ancient history now. Core 2 Quad Q9550, 8GB of RAM, 80GB Intel SSD, 1TB WD Caviar Black, Nvidia GTX570, Antec P180 Case, Corsair HX630 modular power supply.
Helluva lot better machine than I have! I guess I'm going to have to get serious about building one.
Had even worse experience with a brand new but probably lowest low end PSU "Zito" A friend bought it for me to modify it into security camera PSU, I just plugged it into mains, not connected to anything else and poooof, up went cloud of smoke from it accompanied with some fireworks. As it was super cheap and was not worth gasoline to take it back, I opened and thanked my lucky star it was not connected to anything in output, that whole section (output) was burned and at least 220v would have gone thru a computer. Playing with cheap, no name PSUs just doesn't pay, could end up paying for much more than just PSU.
Thanks, Count. I'm going to try one of the 20 pin PSUs I have laying around just to get it up and running although I don't understand how that works, but you guys know more than I do. What happens to the other extra empty pins on the MoBo then?
Ok. I see. Thanks again, Count. :)
I'm not really sure why those extra 4 pins on a motherboard do. I do believe that they weren't put there just because the manufacture had spare time on their hands.
I do recommend using a proper quality power supply. If your motherboard has a 24 pin connector then use a power supply of quality with a 24 pin connector.