Brandon High wrote: > Inexpensive cases have inexpensive power supplies. > > Most of the Antec cases come with good power supplies. I have a > Thermaltake Matrix case that came with a PSU and it's been reliable > for 2 years. I believe the case and PSU was about $100. >
I just picked up an Antec Earthwatts EA-650 power supply from NewEgg. It doesn't come in a case as far as I know, but it's very quiet and runs my AMD AM2 dual-core CPU very nicely. I'm now a fan. I've thinking about replacing a perfectly-useful Asus power supply that I have in another case with one of the Earthwatts series power supplies, due to the noise. Most of the weirdnesses that I associate with the power supply problems are hard to truly pin on the power supply. But a sub-par power-supply really can affect the stability of the system. Historically AMD CPUs have historically worked, but been unstable when paired with a sub-par power supply (I was able to pin one of these 100% on the power supply). This goes back as far as the original Athlons. Intel CPUs started being finicky around the time the Prescott was released. There are a lot of crappy power supplies out there for sale... I'd advise against skimping on the power supply. I've ordered new cases and/or power supplies for the last three of my home-builds -- and putting a good power supply in there really does correlate (but correlation != causation) with having a stable system. -Luke P.S. Anyone in Southwest Virginia want an Inwin Micro-ATX half-height case with a questionable 350-watt power supply? _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
