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What? AMD Approved and P4 Ready??
Okay, first time I've had to buy a power supply. Have an AMD K7-950, the
250W PSU it came with is fried. Someone recomended I go with a Sparkle brand PSU. I looked around and found one that looks good and would fit in my case, the "Sparkle Power (SPI) ATX-300GT 300Watt ATX Switching Power Supply." Did some research and found that all SPI's 300W and above can support AMD K7's. Yet in the description it says "AMD Approved and P4 Ready" My question is, what exactly does that mean, "Approved" why not "Ready" like for P4's? Thanks, Smith |
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"Smith" wrote in message news:c5SPa.3221$AD3.359@lakeread04... Okay, first time I've had to buy a power supply. Have an AMD K7-950, the 250W PSU it came with is fried. Someone recomended I go with a Sparkle brand PSU. I looked around and found one that looks good and would fit in my case, the "Sparkle Power (SPI) ATX-300GT 300Watt ATX Switching Power Supply." Did some research and found that all SPI's 300W and above can support AMD K7's. Yet in the description it says "AMD Approved and P4 Ready" My question is, what exactly does that mean, "Approved" why not "Ready" like for P4's? Thanks, Smith "AMD approved" means that the company is on AMD's list of approved manufacturers and the design meats AMD's specifications. "P4 ready" means that it has an extra 4 pin 12volt plug that is required on most P4 motherboards. __________________________________________________ ____________________ Posted Via Uncensored-News.Com - Still Only $9.95 - http://www.uncensored-news.com The Worlds Uncensored News Source |
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AMD recommends a minimum power wattage capacity for its processors.
Different processors may have different recommended wattages. This is to [help] guarantee that you use a power supply that can feed 2 hard drives, 2 floppies, several sticks of memory, video card, sound card, and other hardware, plus still have enough current to juice up the power demands of the CPU. Flaky behavior can result if your power supply cannot supply enough juice. The P4-ready spec means that there is output from the power supply. It is another tap to provide 12V and looks like a 4-pin square Molex connector and allows more current to get to the motherboard for the 12V (each wire has a max amperage rating, and the one wire used before isn't sufficient for these later higher wattage processors). ATX style motherboards that are P4 ready are also noted as ATX12V. See http://www.directron.com/directron/p...l.html#p4power. -- __________________________________________________ _____ ** Share with others. Post replies in the newsgroup. ** If present, remove "-NIX" from my email address. __________________________________________________ _____ |
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Gotcha, thanks.
Smith "Dave" wrote in message ... "Smith" wrote in message news:c5SPa.3221$AD3.359@lakeread04... Okay, first time I've had to buy a power supply. Have an AMD K7-950, the 250W PSU it came with is fried. Someone recomended I go with a Sparkle brand PSU. I looked around and found one that looks good and would fit in my case, the "Sparkle Power (SPI) ATX-300GT 300Watt ATX Switching Power Supply." Did some research and found that all SPI's 300W and above can support AMD K7's. Yet in the description it says "AMD Approved and P4 Ready" My question is, what exactly does that mean, "Approved" why not "Ready" like for P4's? Thanks, Smith "AMD approved" means that the company is on AMD's list of approved manufacturers and the design meats AMD's specifications. "P4 ready" means that it has an extra 4 pin 12volt plug that is required on most P4 motherboards. __________________________________________________ ____________________ Posted Via Uncensored-News.Com - Still Only $9.95 - http://www.uncensored-news.com The Worlds Uncensored News Source |
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Okay, thanks.
Smith "Vanguard" wrote in message news:HnUPa.43319$ye4.33928@sccrnsc01... AMD recommends a minimum power wattage capacity for its processors. Different processors may have different recommended wattages. This is to [help] guarantee that you use a power supply that can feed 2 hard drives, 2 floppies, several sticks of memory, video card, sound card, and other hardware, plus still have enough current to juice up the power demands of the CPU. Flaky behavior can result if your power supply cannot supply enough juice. The P4-ready spec means that there is output from the power supply. It is another tap to provide 12V and looks like a 4-pin square Molex connector and allows more current to get to the motherboard for the 12V (each wire has a max amperage rating, and the one wire used before isn't sufficient for these later higher wattage processors). ATX style motherboards that are P4 ready are also noted as ATX12V. See http://www.directron.com/directron/p...l.html#p4power. -- __________________________________________________ _____ ** Share with others. Post replies in the newsgroup. ** If present, remove "-NIX" from my email address. __________________________________________________ _____ |
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