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Do NOT buy this power supply. I'm running one right now, it's a piece of crap. I didn't know what I was doing when I picked it out. It gives dirty power on the 12V rails, my WD hard drives keep crapping out because of it.
Well I appreciate your desire to help, neither of those posts help me very much. What is a hot swap caddy, and why would the lack of that cause a hard drive to spontaneously stop working? And why would a 500W power supply, which seems to have no trouble handling a 7950 GX2 + Opteron 170 maxed...
I don't know what that is, so the answer is probably no.
Ultra X-Finity 500W.
I used this guide to calculate how much power I needed in a PSU, if I recall correctly. There are two 12V rails, one is 16 amps and the other is 18. That should be more than sufficient, right?
Okay, so over the summer I built my first computer in 4 years (yay) and in addition to a Western Digital Raptor for an OS drive, I decided to throw in three 320gig WD Caviars for storage. Within a few weeks, I started having problems with them. Upon booting up the computer, when the Windows XP...