[mythtv-users] Re: Quiet Power Supplies/Quiet PC's
hayward at slothmud.org
hayward at slothmud.org
Wed Jul 9 21:12:23 EDT 2003
>The original poster was claiming that cheap power supplies don't last 5
>years ... the ones I have that have lasted that long are necessarily 5
>years old, so either AT or ATX, not suited for today's motherboards. And
>many are low power (65W or so) suited for light uses like routers but not
>heavy uses like video capture and encoding.
Yea, the bad ones have only started appearing in the last couple years
years. While I've lost 6 power supplies this last year, I probably only
lost one in the 5 years before that. So the bad ones have only recently
started cropping up.
>Typically, what causes me to abandon a P/S is no longer having any
>motherboards that can use it (that's why I only have one really old P/S
>running today ... it's on my AT-mobo router).
Agreed, Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be working out that way anymore.
(On my fourth and hopefully last power supply in this computer - It's an
Antec).
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Brian Hayward
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