I spent all my money the last few years on materials for cases and use a $2 WalMart set (just too damn embarrassing at Lan Parties)
It would be cool to have a bad ass set of cans to match my case...
lol, they are for over 600 different builds.
The Kill a watt isant perfect but it is MUCH better than online calqs. and if you cant see that well, sorry.
LOL,
Are you seriously trying to compare Kill A Watt to all the $$ equip in that post????
the Kill A watt is fine, close enough for its cost (under $20) Its MUCH better than online voltage calqs that are WAY off.
in the last year I went through 621 Power supplies (I am so pissed I had to go...
I say stay away from all the 500 watt PSs...(had aweful luck with all of the ones I had, OCZ died within a few min, 2 Seasonics died, 1 in a day and 2nd in a couple weeks and I had a bunch of Ultra 500 ones (bought about 10 of them) that were mostly 75% DOA(but that was a few years ago and Ultra...
I dont get the big deal here, Who the hell cares what companies say/do about other companies?
The strong survive and the weak get their asses kicked, Its worked fine for thousands of years...
I used bits of shrink tubing in the beginning to make sure,
as you do more and more it gets easier, but you definitely want to double and triple check before plugging anything in.
Here is a excellent place to get the minifit pns
http://www.digikey.com/
Cheap in 100 packs and very fast...
Thanks ekuest for guiding him to my thread at Craigs place.
Hey Mach well done and a really cool idea so far.
As to the de-soldering I find simpler is better, I dont use fancy tools just a simple $5 35watt iron.
To remove all 24 pins at once is impossible (without damaging surrounding...