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    Enermax Failures

    I hope it's not a sign of QC. I don't know why the thing failed. Worked like a charm for a day and then wouldn't come back on after I had powered it down while I was away at work. The PSU smelled faintly, like something was burned, but I don't think there were any power surges, lightning...
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    Enermax Failures

    I've just returned my second dead 420 W Enermax. The first had a fan fail, the second ran for a day then failed to come on at all after I turned it off for the night. Since it's baseball season, I'm going to try a third, before I call it quits. Fortunately, Newegg does returns, but I'm...
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    Enermax Question

    Again, thanks for the tips. I think I'll just RMA it since it's been less than 30 days from purchase at NewEgg. Call me a wimp, but my wife will be pissed if I electrocute myself!
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    Enermax Question

    Thanks for the advice. I tried turning the 9 cm fan with and it is definitely sluggish compared to the 8 cm output fan. It moves, but not freely like the other fan. Should I try to RMA the sucker, or is their a simple fix that I can do?
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    Enermax Question

    I have an EG425P-VE SFMA power supply and I noticed last night that the 9 cm fan (the fan that pulls air into the psu) was not turning. The 8 cm fan does spin and the psu is delivering power to the system. Is this normal? The case temperature was about 37C. I know the fans are temperature...
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    First AMD build in a long time, need some feedback

    I have the ECS KN1 board. The first one I ordered from Newegg was DOA, but the second one works fine. The package is decent, includes all the cables including SATA you'd ever need. There are also a bunch of USB and IEEE 1394 connections on board. I haven't been able to get the Nvidia gigabyte...
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    What things do I need handy before I start assembling a new computer?

    I second the beer, although you may want to use this tool at the end of the project. As another link noted a flashlight is handy. Here are two illustrated guides that I found very helpful: http://www.hardwarezone.com/guides/amd-socket939/index.php?pg=1 http://www.buildyourown.org.uk
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    Thinking of building for the first time,should i?

    Building isn't too hard, here is a good site with nice pictures on building a comparable AMD 939 PC. http://www.hardwarezone.com/guides/amd-socket939/?pg=1
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    help! My new Athlon 64 system wont boot!

    I had a basically the exact same problem with an ECS KN1 board. Fans and lights came on but no video signal. I tried a PCI-e card and a PCI card. Finally I took it to a computer shop and they tested the board and the cpu, it turned out the mb was DOA. So you might have to get a new one. I was...
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    Should I upgrade Antec 350

    Spectre -- by blue storm do you mean this one: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-104-934&depa=0 The specs seem output, in terms of amps, similar to the 400w Fortron. http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-104-935&depa=0 Is there a...
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    Should I upgrade Antec 350

    My price point is under $100, each of the 3 I'm considering are between 70 and 80 bucks at newegg.com.
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    Should I upgrade Antec 350

    I just built an new PC powered by an Antec 350 (it came with the Antec 3700AMB case) with the following specs: AMD64 3000+ ECS KN1 Extreme motherboard 1 GB Kingmax Ram WD 250 GB SATA hard drive Leadtek nvidia 6600 video card Liteon DVD-RW 16X Liteon DVD Floppy USB mouse and Keyboard 1...
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