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veneficus

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8. May 2006 @ 13:27

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Well my PSU decided to kick the bucket the other day along with both of my hard drives ... yeah, majorly depressing. While I am waiting for a replacment hard drive from the 'egg', I figured I'd start looking for a new PSU also from there. Here is where I get smothered what with all the different brands and wattages etc.

Basicly, the PSU has to be able to power the following:

AMD XP1900+
3Gb's PC2100 RAM
2x Seagate 250Gb EIDE hdd's
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
DVD/CDRW combo drive
DVDRW drive
Floppy
5x80mm case fans
Soyo KT400 Dragon Lite mobo (I'll be using the onboard sound and LAN ports)

The dead PSU was a Power Magic EP500 - which I assumed was a 500W PSU and was what I could afford at the time. Now I want something more reliable, with enough power for all the above, plus be able to cope with a water cooling unit which I will be adding in a few months. But when I pass the PC to my son, I will be taking out the water cooling unit to go in my one (I'll be building that next year). Budget is $150.00 max. PC is used for gaming and also involves a lot of graphical design work as well as DVD authoring. Not to bothered about SATA or SLI either, so something with a large number of molex's would be cool; saving me from having to use too many splitters.

I think that's all the info needed, if not just ask and I'll be more than happy to answer. Thanks for the help and advice!

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Main PC specs: AMD-XP 1900+; SOYO KT400 Dragon Lite mobo; 1.5Gb PC2100 RAM; ATI Radeon 9500 Pro; 80Gb Seagate HDD; 60Gb Maxtor HDD; Lite-On COMBO SOHC-5236K; Lite-On DVDRW SOHW-1673S