-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/22/07 09:02, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:50:31AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:36:47AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >>> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 10:31:30PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> ON a side note, have you noticed that its hard to actually find useful >> replacement PSU's? My local shops carry all kinds of 5&600 watt PSU's, >> but none of them put out enough power on the right combinations of >> rails to support my stuff. I've had to replace a couple of them with >> generic OEM style psu's. An example would be doing the math on my >> hard-drive/peripheral load on one of my boxes, I determined that I >> needed X watts on the 12 volt rail. > > Check out the CoolerMaster iGreen 600. 85% efficient, ATX 12V V 2.2, > RoHS compliant. MTBF > 400,000 Hrs, dual ball bearing 120 mm fan. 600 > W continuous, 700 W max. > > Continuous ratings: > > 3.3V 20 A > 5V 20 A > total 166 W > > 12V 1 16 A > 12V 2 14 A > 12V 3 8 A > total 456 W > > -12V 0.5 A > 5Vsb 3 A > > > All the drives are powered by 12V 1. Two PCI-E 6-pin connectors, one > from 12V 1, the other from 12V 3. 12V 2 goes to the 4 and 8 pin 12V MB > connectors. So if you only have one GPU that needs a PCI-e connector, > use the one that is powered by 12V 3 and save 12V 1 for the drives.
I know that 12V means 12 volts, but what does the "3" in "12V 3" mean? > If one PSU doesn't do it for your drives, add a second PSU. My > CM-Stacker case has two bays and comes with the harness that connects > the two. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGUw52S9HxQb37XmcRAplUAJ4onPIqXeKsxcDu/xeM78S4r0873gCgmXDz 6NzDzpjLodJ9Z7mhZcID5kw= =ryHm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
