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I am considering helping a friend out whose PSU might have gone bad... this is just a temporary situation..., but he's using a Core 2 Quad (non-native quad core) and a gigabyte ga-ep35-ds3r motherboard...

if i strip it down to just the CPU/RAM/MOBO/PCI video card

do you think the following PSU could last him for at least a month or two?

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PCI, ATI Rage XL 8MB

4x DDR2
2x HDDs
1x DVD
2x fans
 
No more than 2-3 weeks at most with that really really old PSU.
 
Was it really necessary to use such a large image? Anyway, I wouldn't risk it.
 
That seems like a 250W PSU. Dell used high quality 250W PSUs to run Pentium 4 power hogs.

Is that masking tape covering splices in the fan wiring? I wouldn't want splices like that near any high voltage, as seems to be the case for the black wire. Who would route low voltage wiring near high voltage stuff anyway?
 
Now that I'm looking at it again, that PSU has practically no transient filter, hardly any output filtering, and cheap components all around. It's a piece of junk.
 
Please use a thumbnail, I should not have to side scroll at 1680x1050
 
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