Re: What PSU rating for Athlon 2400 with 6 HDDs?

From: Tom MacIntyre (tom__macintyre_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/12/04


Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 19:15:55 GMT

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:46:20 GMT, "rstlne" <.@text.news.virgin.net>
wrote:

>>
>> You really can't have too much, but you can have too little.
>>
>> When it comes to power supplies, I would just get a good name - like Antec
>> True Power, around 430 watt to be safe.
>>
>>
>
>
>Heh..
>I dunno
>Climb a highline pole and put a 5v light across the 15kv lines ;P
>

That's too much voltage. The extra power is a secondary result, of
course.

Tom



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