kain

the reason why i got them is because my brother works in a corportae center for whole foods and they cycle all their old ---- from the past year, including servers and hard drives. i simply picked them up. the sparc server is old though. that ---- has 4 motherboards in it. i harsdly even use it simply because the damn plug is one of those plugs where you hook up a welder or your washer and dryer to. so at the moment its sitting at my brothers house. but its still mine negros.

Fulcrum

My bang for the buck system. I built it about a year ago. Cars eat up too much money to build me an uber gaming rig. Bought just about everything from newegg.com

Old Antec case.(It's got 4 80mm fans and I paid 10 bucks for it so stfu).
P4 2.8HT Prescott core w/ Aerocool Hightower heatsink
ABIT IS7 Mobo 800mhz FSB
600 watt power supply
2 gigs of Corsair pc3200
ATI Radeon 9800XT w/ upgraded fan/heatsink
Seagate 80gb HDD
DVD-Rom
CD-burner
Midiland MX-5 5.1 speakers
Saitek Gamer keyboard
Saitek X45 stick and throttle
Belkin Nostromo NS2
Viewsonic 19" CRT
WinTV tuner card.

built the whole thing for a little under 1000 bucks.

88crxSi

600 watts!!! MAN who needs a furnice!! lol

R-MAK

my PS is only 350, and im gonna upgrade to a 450 soon :\

Fulcrum

I originally had a 450 watt PS. I kept having trouble with my fan rpm's droppin. I've got 4 80mm's, 4 60mm's, and a 3.5" drive bay fan, plus the 9800XT and Prescott chips are power hogs. The problem was fixed after I put in the 600 watt PS.

kain

lol. theres no point. your power suply will power a buncha ----. im runing a 300 in my dual p3, its got the scsi hard drives, the dual cd roms, the single ide har drive, and a couple case fans. works out just fine. just read into what your components need. suprisingly you dont need much at all. like a single case fan takes up like what? 5 watts? thats nothing. a hard drive takes what? 20 watts? 30 watts?

thats nothing.

Fulcrum

I think power supply ratings are peak power not sustained. Going to the bigger power supply cured my fluctuating fan rpm's. I think the wattage requirements manufacturers put on their components are bogus anyway.

jinxy

my geforce 6800 ultra wont even run on a 350 watt. so i have a 500w because it didint run to well on a 400 still needed juice. now if you had pci express 6800 ultras in sli you would probebly need a 600w. my sata's are hard on power too

msi k8n neo 2 platnium nforce 250gb
2 80 gig 10k rpm sata drives in raid
2 gigs corsair 400
3700+ socket 754 bling blow chip
geforce 6800 ultra frying pan

88crxSi

... are you sure?

1. no such thing as a 10k rpm 80 gb hard drive.
2. the NEO2 is a s939. and if say u meant neo s754 there's only 3 ram slots and 2g of ram is not possible.



and if you say you "dont know much about PC's and was wrong" then you shouldnt even have that kinda hardware.

leed

pffft, My Duron 900 desktop will destroy you all lol
And if I need back up, Ill call in my P2-400 laptop