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Powmax?

Powmax is quite literal; They have a tendancy to go *pow*

If you're on a budget OC'ing, well even if you're not on a budget a Fortron power supply would do quite nicely
 
Well im not going to have water cooling or anything. I plan on OC'ing the cpu, mobo, and gfx but nothing that needs anything too extreme. Im pretty sure I'll be alright with that PSU... I hpe so at least. I'll have standard fans and whatnot.
 
Storytime...

- Bought an Antec Minuet case, for a HTPC. The Minuet has a 220W power supply.
- The computer's guts include a nforce2 IGP motherboard, a Palomino XP2000+, a DVD drive and a single hard drive. Not much of a load.
- Got pissed off with the cheap low profile TV tuner I had, and bought a PVR350.
- Needed a big case, so I bought a $40 POWMAX case from a local store. Inside? a 400 watt POWMAX supply.
- Worked fine for about a month. Then the computer started to squeal whenever it went under high CPU load.
- Didn't trust power supply anymore, replaced it with a *145 watt!!* Compaq supply.
- Works fine now.
- Part of my day job is switching power supply design. I took the supply apart out of curiosity, and I don't think I've laughed harder in my life. I brought it into work, and everyone got a chuckle out of it... we calculated that the E core used inside for the main transformer could only do about 200 watts.

Moral: don't buy POWMAX.
 
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