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Very few cases come with a 24pin power source.
BAR wrote:
| You may find that it is a whole lot simpler just to buy a new case
| with the PSU included. Leave the old case and Mobo together and put
| the new Mobo in a new case.
|
| You really get the feeling of a new computer as well.
|
| "peter" wrote:
|
|| Any good reputable 24pin power supply will run your system.
|| But there are other things to consider.Every component in your
|| system needs power and each draws it from a certain
|| line..+3.3,+5.00,+12.0 line.Your job is to make sure that the power
|| supplied by those lines meet the requirement of the device attached
|| to that line plus add for future expansion.Nowadays the req. are
|| :the 3.3 line should be able to output 28amps,the +5.00 line 28amps
|| and the +12.0 line no less than 22amps.
|| Good PSU are never cheap and cheap PSU are never good.
|| Your whole system depends upon this power.A few Good names are
|| ANTEC,Enermax,OCZ,Seasonic.There are more and as you research your
|| requirements remember the famous words of "Tim the Tool Man"....you
|| can never have enough power.
|| peter
|| "John" <John@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
|| news
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||| Hi:
||| I need to buy ATX power supply with a 24 pin motherboard connection
||| and SATA
||| ready, I do not wish to use the 20/24 adapter cable.
||| I am installing a Intel motherboard (D925XECV2) hopefully someone
||| can give me some good information because I do not want to fry the
||| motherboard before
||| I get started.