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Dedicated pump power supply?

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Zildjian26

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I was just wondering if anyone here is using a dedicated power supply for their water cooling pump? I think I'm going to have to with my setup. I have a Prescott 3.0 running at 3.75, P4C800-E Deluxe (with droop mod), 1GB RAM, one 10k RPM and two 7.2k RPM SATA drives, two optical drives, floppy, dual CCL tubes, BFG 6800GT, and three LED fans. Plus I have the MCP650 pump, and two 120mm rad fans. I started out with an Antec Neo 480, and running at 3.75 it would reset itself under heavy load (SETI@home and DVD Architect render, simultaneously). So I put the pump and rad fans on a separate little 200W PSU, and it still reset itself. Then I unplugged the LED fans and CCL from the main power supply, and it appears to be stable at 3.75. So, I've now upgraded the 480W to a TruePower 550, and still have the pump and rad fans on the separate PSU, and I'm in the process of testing.

I used to let my PC run 24x7, but I think now I'll be shutting it down at night to save on the electric bill.
 
I thought about using a dedicated power supply for my external water cooling system. But I tested my system running everything off of my Antec 480 and it works fine, I'm running a Athlon XP Barton OC'd to 11x220, 9800 Pro, 1 7200 SATA HD, 1 PATA 7200 HD, 2 Optical drives, 1 gig ram, 6 LED 80mm case fans, DD D4 12v pump and 2 Panaflo 120 mm radiator fans. I've been running it 24/7 from the day I built the system running folding @ Home, I've never had a system reset so far.
 
You've got a 24w, 2 amp fan.................... :eek: Your computer must hover by its self................. :D
 
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