Critique My Future Comp

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  • elitebearelitebear Join Date: 2002-05-29 Member: 696Members
    edited January 2005
    <!--QuoteBegin-Talesin+Jan 30 2005, 08:44 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Talesin @ Jan 30 2005, 08:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Elitebear, the one I'm talking about is the Aspire ATX-AS500W 12V.  It has a 34A max, 37A peak +12V rail. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    aspires are known for being the suck. the high 12v rails mean nothing. lets put things into perspective. the powmax demon 600w has a 12v very similar to that but is still a terrible psu. the rails will drop before you know it

    edit: the x800xl is out of the question on his rig, unless he gets pci-express mobo
  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    edited January 2005
    Er... elitebear? The +12V rail is what feeds the most power-hungry components of your machine. Hard drives, fans, graphics card (if it has a power header). My +12V is currently running at 12.096V, and varies to 12.16V... never dipping below 12.09V. And this is with a RAID array, a Radeon 9500 Pro, five case fans, and effect lighting; in an Ath64 3200+, on an ASUS K8V Deluxe.

    It appears to be pretty sturdy, for the time being.. regardless of if they're colloquially 'known' to be bad.

    Especially given that:<ul><li><a href='http://www.subzerotech.com/index/module/sz_reviews_display/id/168/page/4' target='_blank'>SubZeroTech</a> (…I don’t know if power supplies get better than this.)</li><li><a href='http://www.atruereview.com/aspirepsu/powersupply.php' target='_blank'>A True Review</a> (I am sticking with this supply in my case.)</li><li><a href='http://www.systemcooling.com/aspire_550w_psu-03.html' target='_blank'>System Cooling</a> (We couldn't make this PSU give in)</li></ul>...these sites seem to all agree that it's a solid unit, with only a couple of minor problems. The first one, complaining that all the wires weren't sheathed, has been addressed. All of them come fully sheathed/bundled in green UV reactive mesh. The fan speed dial can still conflict with some cases, but not many, so long as they have a standard PSU plane. And it can be a little noisy at top speed. Which is why there's a fan speed dial on it. :b

    Also, the UV-reactive stuff inside it, as well as the cables, meshed quite nicely with my UV cold cathodes. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> A minor perk, but it looks nifty. And the UV LEDs are enough to at least get the sheathing to somewhat glow, if you don't want to pay for the full tubes.
  • Soylent_greenSoylent_green Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11220Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--QuoteBegin-BulletHead+Jan 30 2005, 01:13 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BulletHead @ Jan 30 2005, 01:13 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> try to get DDR 2 ram, mucho better than standard DDR 1, also make sure it's low latency <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    WTH kind of advice is that? No AMD processors or boards support DDR2 currently because it is more expensive and would perform quite a lot worse.
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