<div dir="ltr"><div>Personally, again this is personal experence, I lean toward Antec and Corasir. Both sell gold seal brands with a range of wattages. That having been said if your computer is old and or your on a budget, these powersupplies may be worth more than the rest of your computer. After I had to beg a professor for an extention because I belw a power supply sophmore year and it took my graphics card with it, I've been buying the "good stuff" ever since. Plus garbage in, garbage out, clean power means better operating equiptment.<br>
<br></div>Will<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Lennart Sorensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:11:21PM -0500, Colin McGregor wrote:<br>
> The @#$% annoying problem with so many "name" brand PCs (Dell, HP,<br>
> etc.) is that they use just slightly non-standard power supplies. So,<br>
> I have seen power supplies where the mounting holes were is the<br>
> "wrong" position so that you could only use a replacement power supply<br>
> for that model from the name brand supplier.<br>
<br>
</div>I have only ever heard of Dell doing that. Some of the micro sized PCs<br>
are non standard too, but only Dell has put non standard in full size<br>
desktop machines.<br>
<br>
That HP looks like a standard ATX power supply.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> All this is to wish you well on your quest for a non-HP power supply<br>
> to replace an HP power supply, but... if I were forced to bet (and I<br>
> am not big on betting) I would expect that there will be some sort of<br>
> hick-up that will stop a generic PC power supply from being used with<br>
> your current HP (read it means you will either have to go to HP or<br>
> junk the machine :-( ).<br>
><br>
> This does explain why I have been just going with more-or-less generic<br>
> PCs (laptop being an exception). If the power supply in one of my<br>
> desktop PCs fails I know I can go to any of dozens of PC shops in the<br>
> GTA and get something that will work okay...<br>
<br>
</div>And you could even get something good too.<br>
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