Another pc problem and its power related.

ElectroBlaster · 23 Nov 2007 at 15:07

Im cursed lol

I have a pc in a lian li case based around this lot:

msi neo platinum s478 board
1gig of twinmos pc3200
radeon 9800pro aiw
audigy1
2 x hitachi 160gig pata
nec 16x dvd writer
400watt 12cm fan psu (x-power I think?)

All the case fans are powered by an akasa fan control pro. cpu fan is on a rheostat hooked into its own molex lead. the northbridge is passivley cooled.

Now what happens is all the fans will suddenly act as if they are loosing power for a second or two and return to normal. The hard drives will click loudly and very rarely the pc will hard lock. Ive also noticed the psu smells bad... ive been able to shine a powerfull torch in the back and all the visible capacitors look ok. At the moment I havent got the time to tear this whole thing down but it looks like another bloomin psu problem, ive already got an antec that could possibly be dodgy aswell.

sammie377 · 23 Nov 2007 at 17:48

I would recommend either a Corsair, Seasonic if your into quiet and if not Tagen or Enermax a 400Watt would be oodles of power but if you spend more it can be used in future builds, personally I buy the Corsair 620 HX for almost every PC I build ( I build quite a few as part of my income) I have never had a problem and should in the future you want 2 graphics cards and a quad CPU it will power it.

PS even if you buy a 600watt PSU provided it's a quality make it will only consume what it needs so your electricity bill will be reduced as well.

fobose · 23 Nov 2007 at 17:53

600W is was OTT. CPU's are using less and less power (take the dual cores from the P4 prescotts/northwoods for example), the 45nm should use less wattage than the current CPU's too. You could prob Sli on a decent 400-450w PSU.

sammie377 · 23 Nov 2007 at 19:06

fobose said:
600W is was OTT. CPU's are using less and less power (take the dual cores from the P4 prescotts/northwoods for example), the 45nm should use less wattage than the current CPU's too. You could prob Sli on a decent 400-450w PSU.

As I said with a 600 he could use 2 graphics and a quad core cpu, just gives the option to do so, if he's not into gaming the a 400 watt should be ample for just about anything.