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400 watt power supply enough for my system ?
This is the Power Supply iam thinking about getting becuase its quiet , reviews says it good. Zalman ZM400B-APS 400W Noiseless ATX12V Power Supply, supporting Intel Pentium 4 and AMD CPUs (now with SATA connectors) I can plug the power to my SATA drives cooooool or not :-0 1 Mobile 2500, at 2.6ghz prob at 1.7volts or so. 1 gig OCZ dual channel memory. 1 Radeon 9800 Pro Extream 128 Megs. 1 120 Gig SATA Hard Drive. 1 CD Rewritter. 1 DVD Rom. 1 DVD Burner, not yet though. And a few USB devices nothing toooo bad, Sterring wheel, Mouse, Modem, Speakers ect, the usual stuff. Thanks. |
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 07:38:57 +1000, OCZ Guy
wrote: This is the Power Supply iam thinking about getting becuase its quiet , reviews says it good. Zalman ZM400B-APS 400W Noiseless ATX12V Power Supply, supporting Intel Pentium 4 and AMD CPUs (now with SATA connectors) I can plug the power to my SATA drives cooooool or not :-0 1 Mobile 2500, at 2.6ghz prob at 1.7volts or so. 1 gig OCZ dual channel memory. 1 Radeon 9800 Pro Extream 128 Megs. 1 120 Gig SATA Hard Drive. 1 CD Rewritter. 1 DVD Rom. 1 DVD Burner, not yet though. And a few USB devices nothing toooo bad, Sterring wheel, Mouse, Modem, Speakers ect, the usual stuff. Without a motherboard the above parts won't be very demanding. Motherboard was very important to mention since some use 5V but others 12V for CPU. Either way that PSU should be sufficient but keep in mind that low noise psu means it won't move as much air, requiring more effort on your part to compensate with other air movement, active fan intake to create positive case pressure (excluding PSU flow from consideration) if you dont' want PSU running hot. The traditional arrangement of one PSU exhaust fan plus one or two exhaust fans below PSU is not a good arrangement for a low-noise PSU... it'll keep components cool enough if front intake is good but PSU itself reaches higher temp. PSU is more heat sensative than many other parts like CPU, and has longer useful life than CPU for many people too. |
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I KNOW I MISSED SOMTHING, Abit NF7-S 2.0 Ok thats my Mobo, working now but without the new cpu and ram !!! On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 22:09:14 GMT, kony wrote: On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 07:38:57 +1000, OCZ Guy wrote: This is the Power Supply iam thinking about getting becuase its quiet , reviews says it good. Zalman ZM400B-APS 400W Noiseless ATX12V Power Supply, supporting Intel Pentium 4 and AMD CPUs (now with SATA connectors) I can plug the power to my SATA drives cooooool or not :-0 1 Mobile 2500, at 2.6ghz prob at 1.7volts or so. 1 gig OCZ dual channel memory. 1 Radeon 9800 Pro Extream 128 Megs. 1 120 Gig SATA Hard Drive. 1 CD Rewritter. 1 DVD Rom. 1 DVD Burner, not yet though. And a few USB devices nothing toooo bad, Sterring wheel, Mouse, Modem, Speakers ect, the usual stuff. Without a motherboard the above parts won't be very demanding. Motherboard was very important to mention since some use 5V but others 12V for CPU. Either way that PSU should be sufficient but keep in mind that low noise psu means it won't move as much air, requiring more effort on your part to compensate with other air movement, active fan intake to create positive case pressure (excluding PSU flow from consideration) if you dont' want PSU running hot. The traditional arrangement of one PSU exhaust fan plus one or two exhaust fans below PSU is not a good arrangement for a low-noise PSU... it'll keep components cool enough if front intake is good but PSU itself reaches higher temp. PSU is more heat sensative than many other parts like CPU, and has longer useful life than CPU for many people too. |
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Well iam getting a new Case Antec Sonata seems the one iam leaning towards, ill put one front 120mm fan and a rear 120 mm fan, also a Side 120mm fan to blow extra air to the cpu and maybe another one at the top and if iam botthered another at the top of the case :0 Enough fans or what would you recommend ? Thanks. Also qll of these would be connected to my Vantex Fan Controler prob run at 7volts all the time , well in winter anyway. On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 22:09:14 GMT, kony wrote: On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 07:38:57 +1000, OCZ Guy wrote: This is the Power Supply iam thinking about getting becuase its quiet , reviews says it good. Zalman ZM400B-APS 400W Noiseless ATX12V Power Supply, supporting Intel Pentium 4 and AMD CPUs (now with SATA connectors) I can plug the power to my SATA drives cooooool or not :-0 1 Mobile 2500, at 2.6ghz prob at 1.7volts or so. 1 gig OCZ dual channel memory. 1 Radeon 9800 Pro Extream 128 Megs. 1 120 Gig SATA Hard Drive. 1 CD Rewritter. 1 DVD Rom. 1 DVD Burner, not yet though. And a few USB devices nothing toooo bad, Sterring wheel, Mouse, Modem, Speakers ect, the usual stuff. Without a motherboard the above parts won't be very demanding. Motherboard was very important to mention since some use 5V but others 12V for CPU. Either way that PSU should be sufficient but keep in mind that low noise psu means it won't move as much air, requiring more effort on your part to compensate with other air movement, active fan intake to create positive case pressure (excluding PSU flow from consideration) if you dont' want PSU running hot. The traditional arrangement of one PSU exhaust fan plus one or two exhaust fans below PSU is not a good arrangement for a low-noise PSU... it'll keep components cool enough if front intake is good but PSU itself reaches higher temp. PSU is more heat sensative than many other parts like CPU, and has longer useful life than CPU for many people too. |
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OCZ Guy wrote:
Well iam getting a new Case Antec Sonata seems the one iam leaning towards, ill put one front 120mm fan and a rear 120 mm fan, also a Side 120mm fan to blow extra air to the cpu and maybe another one at the top and if iam botthered another at the top of the case :0 Enough fans or what would you recommend ? That mobile CPU really requires liquid nitrogen cooling---like you find in most laptops nowadays. |
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:30:09 +1000, OCZ Guy
wrote: Well iam getting a new Case Antec Sonata seems the one iam leaning towards, ill put one front 120mm fan and a rear 120 mm fan, also a Side 120mm fan to blow extra air to the cpu and maybe another one at the top and if iam botthered another at the top of the case :0 Enough fans or what would you recommend ? That should be plenty of fans. With that case I'd be concerned about the restrictions to intake on the front fan as it effects case pressurization (to force more air out the power supply exhaust) except that adding a second intake on the side should rectify that, with a top-mounted fan being unnecessary, possibly even detrimental. |
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I know what you mean about the case, nothing a hole saw and removing the bottom two hard disk holders wont fix Time for some SPARKS :-0 On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 07:17:58 GMT, kony wrote: On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:30:09 +1000, OCZ Guy wrote: Well iam getting a new Case Antec Sonata seems the one iam leaning towards, ill put one front 120mm fan and a rear 120 mm fan, also a Side 120mm fan to blow extra air to the cpu and maybe another one at the top and if iam botthered another at the top of the case :0 Enough fans or what would you recommend ? That should be plenty of fans. With that case I'd be concerned about the restrictions to intake on the front fan as it effects case pressurization (to force more air out the power supply exhaust) except that adding a second intake on the side should rectify that, with a top-mounted fan being unnecessary, possibly even detrimental. |
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