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Simple question regarding two of the same PSU's I bought from a competitor. They were £15 each and appear to be unbranded. They're rated at 400W with a suitable amount of amps on the 12V rail. The systems that they're running are my BOINC boxes.
System 1: single core AMD 1620LE or something like that and 3 hard drives.
System 2: Dual core AMD AM2 X2 4000, 1 hard drive and an AGP graphics card.
Firstly, I'm right in thinking that the PSU's aren't being put under any sort of load? I've got one of those watt meter plug thingies and both systems draw about 90W continious.
In relation to the above, is it then safe to say that the PSU's shouldn't be blowing up and taking anything out? I've had the systems running for a few months now and I've not had any problems so far although I don't really want one to blow up and take out some hardware either.
Simple question regarding two of the same PSU's I bought from a competitor. They were £15 each and appear to be unbranded. They're rated at 400W with a suitable amount of amps on the 12V rail. The systems that they're running are my BOINC boxes.
System 1: single core AMD 1620LE or something like that and 3 hard drives.
System 2: Dual core AMD AM2 X2 4000, 1 hard drive and an AGP graphics card.
Firstly, I'm right in thinking that the PSU's aren't being put under any sort of load? I've got one of those watt meter plug thingies and both systems draw about 90W continious.
In relation to the above, is it then safe to say that the PSU's shouldn't be blowing up and taking anything out? I've had the systems running for a few months now and I've not had any problems so far although I don't really want one to blow up and take out some hardware either.
