Joined: 22 Jun 2004
Posts: 595
Location: Kurrajong, NSW
quote:Originally posted by Glen:
and is it my imagination or is that same company selling an ATX power supply for $99
Yeah, they are, but they are 550W . . . 20A on the 12V rail . . . not a great price, but not too bad either . . .
And is it just me, or does there company name sound like a plastic ?. . . DHYPE . . . _________________ Jeff Ferrara
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Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:15 pm
Valen Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 07 Jul 2004
Posts: 4436
Location: Sydney
the 550W PSU in my PC cost $200
thats brand name though
antech "true power"
30A on 12v
40a on 5v
my comp used to have a habit of blowing 400W psu's about every 3 months. _________________ Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets
Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:03 pm
ffej Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 22 Jun 2004
Posts: 595
Location: Kurrajong, NSW
quote:
my comp used to have a habit of blowing 400W psu's about every 3 months.
Ouch! . . . What exactly are you running that sucks all that juice ? Im running 3X 200GB SATA HDD's drives, DVD burner and CD burner, a 3.2Ghz prescott P4, an ATI Radeon X600 and a few usb devices (ipod, thumb drive, etc . . .) and my 350W hasn't skipped a beat. _________________ Jeff Ferrara
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used to fail on boot when the SCSI started thrashing and when we ran some biq queires, (100% on 4 (hyper threaded) cpus) and the disk thrashing, mmm gotta love that 3.6ms seek ;-> _________________ Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets
Sat Feb 12, 2005 11:09 pm
timmeh Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 20 Jul 2004
Posts: 2523
Location: Victoria
im running 1gb of ram
A 120gb hard disc and a 80gb one too
radion 9800pro xd or xe whichever
tv tuner card
soundblaster pro audigy 2
p4 3.2gs hyperthread
modem dvd burner cd drive
and about 4 fans
400watt power supply
If thats any help? _________________ Tim Team Reaper.
Sun Feb 13, 2005 8:06 am
Knightrous Site Admin
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
Posts: 8511
Location: NSW
Stats WAR!
Desktop:
P4 1.6Ghz
Intel Shuttle Mobo
512mb 333 DDR RAM
40Gb HDD
DVD Burner
52 CD-ROM
Modem
300w Power Supply
Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 128mb with modified Iceberg 4 fan bolted on
Sound Blaster Audigy 1
that was just my desktop
electronics PC something like a celery 600
laptop P1 233 (running wondows 2000 server (on 48mb of ram))
dads Athlon 1700+
TV P4 1.4ghz (which i wish was about 2Ghz because then we could watch HD)
Router K6-2 500
*nix router test box 386 6mhz i think
but then revenge of the 386 will pwonzor j00 all
with the addition of the rest of the crap floating about here thats a fairly even 10 Ghz worth of processing power. _________________ Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets
Mon Feb 14, 2005 10:12 pm
timmeh Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 20 Jul 2004
Posts: 2523
Location: Victoria
I love the old 486 and 386erss
I have about 4 of them in the back room.
Used to have them at school in a spare room all networked and we used to play doom and duke nukem on them.lol it was soo entertaining _________________ Tim Team Reaper.
Tue Feb 15, 2005 1:33 pm
Glen Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 16 Jun 2004
Posts: 9481
Location: Where you least expect
Joined: 16 Oct 2004
Posts: 436
Location: roleystone perth. WA
no don't ..let him suffer _________________ For West ausies interested in robotics email me at: theoneshrug@hotmail.com
OR
dragoonarie@gmail.com
best quote ever:: "Those Gas-Turbine style warehouse heaters arent illegal, and neither is remote controlling one as far as I know."
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