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My power supplies have never let me down. That’s probably because I disassemble them before putting up for job, throw away all junk manufacturers put inside and install real parts. I don’t care if it’s an overkill like to put eight 40A 100V Schottky diodes instead of four 20A 45V ones. I know it’s better to be safe than sorry and the result is worth the effort. My background in electrical engineering says never trust a consumer PSU no matter how wonderful it looks on the outside. Don’t trust the reviews either because they’re written by noobs usually who make no difference between buck, push-pull, half and full bridge.
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I like that idea. I might have to see if there are any guides around on what’s needed, though.
Tho nothing I had should have pulled more than 750watts anyway, I think it was a fan I had connected. either way, the new case/psu is a lot cooler and with a new cpu heatsink is a hell of a lot better too, so I should be sorted…
I did work out that a 350watt psu is quite happy to run a hd5850 in 3d games like cod4, with 1 ssd drive and 1 ide 80gb. I had to use 2 molex to pcie power connectors to power it, but no probs. I didn’t try mining with it, just in case I did pop something lol
good to know as I just had it spare as a bit of junk…
whew… back to mining :)