Stupid question about fans.....

I suppose you might be able to shave a couple of pennies off somewhere else, but it won't be much and I guarantee you'll never deal with a better supplier in the UK (with the possible exception of Crucial). Their service is outstanding .

I question if you need the 460, though, I'm using the 350Watt Enermax (bought from Overclockers!) with a 2.4 P4, 4 hard drives, 3 optical drives, 3 case fans 1Gb PC2100 RAM and a Ti4200 128Mb graphics card with no strain at all on the PSU. My 450Watt output UPS is showing 70-75% output and that's with it supplying 2 CRT monitors as well.

Let's see, the 460W for 65 pounds comes out to about $105 in US. That's not too bad, the 350W for 42.5 pounds comes out to about $69 US doallars. I've got a 350W powering my system detailed below in my signature. It also has an extra case fan and the CPU fan has 3 speeds (and the fastest one zooms, and eats up the power). Even with this my power supply has performed excellent! These aren't bad prices. You may be able to find a better one on Pricewatch.com, but most of the companies that advertise on there are located in the US and so your shipping would probably be quite a bit more (those things are heavy, you know).

Let us know how it works out.

Ok so you rekon a 350 watt Enermax PSU would be perfectly upto the job? That would be pretty sweet as every penny counts.
Have to agree with you on Crucial, thats where I got my Radeon from, next day delievery, no bullcrap and dirt cheap prices for top quality stuff! (Do you think I could get a job at the PR division?)

You should be able to work out the power you need from this:

http://www.aapspower.com/abpowsup.html

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Does anyone know of a newer version of this chart? Showing today's P4's and XP's, AGP that run 1.5V line etc. ?

Yeah, it was a bit out of date, try these:

http://www11.brinkster.com/bayup/doarticles.asp?a=27

http://www.distortionwave.com/power.html

1 suggestion for you...if you want to run that many fans...you might look into a digital doc 5 temp monitor and fan controller...it will control up to 7 fans for you off one power header....myself and bistro both use these and they work great for controlling the fans...

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Yeah, it was a bit out of date, try these:

http://www11.brinkster.com/bayup/doarticles.asp?a=27

http://www.distortionwave.com/power.html

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:) Thank you SuperSparks :)

You are most welcome K G G :)

Hey Sarrkazztic I've never heard of those before, but they sound interesting. I was wondering if you knew of a web site that showed a picture or two of them, and maybe went into a little detail.

Thanks.

Sorry, I just searched for "Digital Doc 5" and found this page along with several others. I guess I have seen those before, I just wasn't thinking that's what you called them. Yeah, if he's worried about heat that would be a great add-on.

Ok heres the deal. I have brought my new case, some new fans and that sweet Enermax 460watt PSU I was talking about. I have fitted all the new and old components together, fine, so I go to switch it on....nothing. After alot of fiddling about I have found out that its my new PSU causing the trouble as when I fit my old one everything comes to life.

So heres my question-

Is my brand new PSU dead?
Or is there some seetings that I could turn off in my BIOS that may make it work again? My BIOS is a phoenix BIOS, are there any known issues between this BIOS and this PSU?

Please help as soon as poss , im at a loss.

P.S. excuse the spelling and grammer of this post as I am craning over a half open PC thats on my floor as I type this!!

There's nothing in the BIOS that could affect a PSU. I'm sure you had the switch on the back of the PSU turned on didn't you? Other than that it's probably a dead'un - I suppose even with Enermax it happens from time to time.

Here's a good article for testing power supplies:

Testing PSU voltages

Dang looks like I got a dead PSU then....hmmm time to test overclockers customer service.....


Oh yeah second question, the fans I bought didn’t come with any screws to connect them to the case, where on earth can I buy these screws separately? I’ve tried several hardware stores and independent computer stores but to no avail, will PCWORLD supply these screws?

May sound silly,,but is the voltage selector switch set properly?

Good and inexpensive source for this type of stuff:

www.cyberguys.com