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Power supply poll

Stiletto One

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Since this seems to be coming up a lot, post your system's relevant specs and power supplies.

Relevant specs:
Motherboard
CPU
RAM, including whether the RAM is single- or double-sided
PCI cards
Graphics card
#Hard drives w/ platter counts and speeds
#Optical drives
#Fans and types

My system:
A7N8X Deluxe
AMD AthlonXP 2000+
2x double-sided 256MB PC2100
1x ATi Rage Pro 3d PCI
1x ATA/133 controller card
4x 80mm case fan, slow
2x 80mm case fan, medium
1x 7200rpm 1-platter
1x 7200rpm 3-platter
2x optical
GeForce4Ti

I'm running on a 300W Fortron.

How about the rest of you?
 
....sig:

The system passes extended burn in / "torture" tests without a whimper.

Regards - B.B.S.
 
My system:
ASUS A7N8X
AMD AthlonXP 2500+ at 3200+ speeds (207x12)
1GB of Mushkin lvl2 PC3200 (double sided)
Hercules GTXP
Promise IDE (non RAID) card
ATi Radeon 9600Pro
2 80GB WD SE drives (7200RPM) 3 platters each
3 optical drives (DVD-ROM, CD-ROM, CD-RW)
4 120mm LED fans (on a rheobus)
6 80mm thermal fans
all this on a 520watt Vantec Stealth PSU
 
sig sparkle 400watts psu
The system passes extended burn in / "torture" tests without a sweat.
drew
 
MSI K7D Master-L
2x Applebred Duron 1.8 oc'ed to 2ghz
1gig Kingston ECC Reg'd PC2700 DDR
2x 80gb WD SE
Sony 48x CD-RW
*8* ~0.20a 80mm Fans
Gainward GFFX 5600 Ultra 256mb
SB Live Platinum
Intel Pro 1000T 64bit Gigabit Adapter
All on a Vantec Stealth 520

Epox 8rda3+
Barton 2500+
120gb WD SE
Sony 48x CD-RW
Sony 16x DVD-ROM
SB Audigy 2
Gainward GFFX 5600 Ultra 256 (yeah I've only got 1 good video card, so I switched it out but for the sake of this thread both systems have run with it at various times)
On an Enermax 300w PSU
 
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2, 120mm LED fans
4, 80mm LED fans
2 HD cooler w/ 3 fans each.
the ps is a dual LED vertiglow

all of this runs without a hitch
 
Asus A7N8X Deluxe rev 1.04, 1007 Uber Bios
AthlonXP 2800+ @ 2219.5 (193x11.5)
Stock HSF for now
1 Gb Corsair CMX PC3200C2 (2-2-2-5)
MSI Ti4200 128 Mb (Oc'ed to Ti4400 speeds)
SB Audigy 2 ZS
Lite-On 52x32x52 CDRW
Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM
Hitatchi 7k250 SATA 80 Gb HDD
6x80mm Case fans (4 with blue leds, the other 2 clear)
6 port dual voltage baybus
Dual 12" Blue Cold Cathodes
All cables are sleeved and heatshrinked with silver and black respectively (except the PSU which is all black)

This is installed on a Lian-Li PC-65, with a custom made window for dual 80mm blow holes.

The system is powered by a PC Power and Cooling TurboCool 510 Deluxe

I'm waiting on getting the following once I can afford it:

Matrix Orbital MX222 USB LCD Display
Swiftech MCX159-R for the Northbridge
Swiftech MCX-V 462
Blue LED Acrylic feet (gotta love those things)
9800 Pro

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Those are high up on my next to get list.. I might scrap the A7N8X and get a DFI NF2 Infinity, and try to OC it some more..
 
Specs in my signature, plus:

Two Thermaltake 80mm case fans ("TT8025A-2B"). Soon to be replaced by a pair of Vantec Stealths
Three Laser Leds
One 6" CCFL
Glowing PC foot
USB-powered Canon flatbed scanner

I guess that's it. :cool:
 
Asus A7N8X-E Dlx
XP2800+
SLK-947U with 92mm 47cfm Panaflo
Sapphire Radeon 9800Pro
4x 80mm 32cfm Panaflo case fans
Seagate 7200.7 120GB SATA
Plexwriter 48x CDRW
Plextor 16x DVD

All running off a Antec True430, which is by far a overkill as the system is only sucking about 230 watts AC, meaning about 175 watts out of the power supply.
 
Althlon XP 2100+
Asus A7N266-VM
9800 Pro
256MB PC2100 ::
10 gig WD
40 Gig WD
LiteOn 48x
Nec 12x dvd
nic
modem
2 CCFL, 3 fans, 2 more in psu, webcam, smartmedia reader, mouse, KB

all on Antec True380

14 hours x 2 prime 95 (2 over-nighters)
 
Asus P4P800 DLX
2.4C
Kingstong HyperX 2x 256MB PC3500
No PCI Cards
Powercolor 9200se
WD 60GB 8mb Cache 7200RPM 30GB Maxtor 5400RPM
Samsung CD-RW/DVD Combo Panasonic 12x DVD ROM
5 80mm case fans(2 are LED) 2 UV cold cathode tubes
Exitigy
350W Antec True Blue
 
Extra stuff that isn't in sig:

Samsung CD-RW/DVD CD-ROM
ASUS CD-ROM

It was on an Antec SL350 that recently crapped out :( . One of the fans failed and the other barely spinned, plus the rails were sagging like a bitch. Sent an e-mail to Antec but haven't gotten around to calling the guy who replied yet for a RMA. At least they have a 3 year warranty.
 
Mobo: Abit NF7-S
CPU: Athlon 2500+
AGP: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti (Chaintech Ti4400)
PCI (sorta): Onboard audio/Onboard S-ATA RAID
2 RAM modules: single-sided PC2700, 256MB
2 Hard Drives (WD Raptor 36.7GB, 10k RPM, RAID 0)
2 Optical drives (NEC 4x DVD±RW, NEC 16x DVD-ROM)
1 Exhaust fan (120mm, automatic 1500-2000 RPM)
1 Intake fan (120mm, 1500 RPM)

Antec 380W

...all packed inside the Antec Sonata case, with no heat or power issues.
 
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