I thought that the PSU that I used before the one from BFG was from them; I do remember that it started acting weird after a while. It may have just been overloaded, but whenever I would start up anything that taxed my GPU (Unreal, RtCW, but especially Doom 3), the whole machine would power off after a variable amount of time. The PSU claimed to be either a 500W or 550W, too, so I'm not sure how much bigger it would have needed to be. (And of course, it didn't do the power-off thing when I first got it and ran Unreal/RtCW.)
Although the more I think about it, the more I think it was bought from Newegg instead of PCP&C. I can't remember for sure. Oh, hang on -- if it was Newegg, it would be in my order history; I bet I can figure out a way to check that from Lynx (I'm posting this from my server, which doesn't have X installed, let alone a browser). Let me see...
Ah yes, it was Newegg. OK, so PCP&C sounds like a decent idea.
Looking at their PSUs (with no regard to price at the moment ;-) ), I see the Turbo-Cool 860 looks nice. The issue might be the 24-pin connector; my motherboard still uses a 20-pin. I know the extra four pins (generally) don't need to be plugged into anything, because there are "20+4" connectors that have the extra four pins on a breakaway setup where you don't need to plug them in. (My current PSU has one of those.) I'm wondering, though, whether they have anything that's still a 20+4 (or 20) setup. I'll have to do more looking, probably from a non-Lynx browser. :-P
But thanks for the pointers! :-) |
