Found a replacement power supply ?
Kevin Cozens
kevin-4dS5u2o1hCn3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org
Sun Feb 10 20:39:04 UTC 2013
Greetings, all.
For those that remember, my desktop power supply seems to have died and
I am looking for a replacement with a higher wattage than the original.
I can't turn on my desktop any more so I am unable to reply directly to
those who had commented and/or provided info regarding my search.
Thank you for those that replied. I want to get the supply from Best Buy
as I can easily walk over there to return a supply if it turns out it
isn't suitable or goes bad. Other suppliers would mean getting someone
to drive me back to a store or pay to have item mailed back.
I eliminated the supplies for which I could find no detailed
specifications, that were less than 80% efficient, or did not have at
least 19A on the +12V rail (as recommended by the video card I'm using).
Detailed reviews on some of the remaining choices has also not been
easy, if any were found.
I was down to two power supplies: Antec EarthWatts 650 Green (EA650), or
the Corsair TX650 (CMPSU-650TXV2). They are close in price and each near
the limit of what I wanted to spend. I just discovered Best Buy now has
the Corsair CX600M (CP-9020060-NA) available for a few dollars less.
Some reviews mentioning short life of the Antec pushed me towards the
Corsair TX650, despite a common issue it has with fan noise, but now I'm
thinking of going with the CX600M.
The CX600M is 50W less but that won't make a difference as the original
supply was only 300W and being modular solves the issue of trying to
stuff all the power supply cables in to a mid-size tower box. There are
only has 3 SATA connectors which I will use for the pair of HD's and I
can use adapters (possibly from the original supply) to convert Molex
(peripheral) connectors to SATA for the two DVD drives.
The only nagging concern is the video I saw of a CX600 (non-modular)
that let out copious amounts of "magic smoke" when it died while idling.
The CX600M likely to have the same basic guts as the CX600. Videos of
supplies tested to failure have not died in such a fashion.
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