Replace pc power supply on old pentium 4

[lanstrad]

Not too sure here : should I understand that on an old Pentium 4, on ASUS P4B533 motherboard, some old IDE drives but would add one or two SATA (through a PCI card that has SATA connectors) - as I intend to use that machine as a file server on Linux now... : thus, would any modern PSU do the job safely? (Mine is 350 or 380 volts....) I would go for around the same or 400 watts more or less.

Reason for replacing: fan on the other became extremely noisy with time. Tried to oil it, but to no success.

Thanks,
Rob

 

[Gate9er]

Hi

Yeap I think you should be fine. All the new PSU's can support older mobo's in terms of power and plug-in.

Cheers

 

[cylemmulo]

a really just take a look at the specs and make sure it has all the right connections that you need for it and there shouldn't be a problem, you can probably get away with something pretty cheap too.

 

[lanstrad]

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[lanstrad]

Thanks to both of you. Indeed replaced the psu and work like a charm , now with sata power cabling (although would have been ok to just use other means. But also to discover the noise did not come from old psu fan (my main reason for replacing... as i had eliminated the cpu fan as possible source ...) but discovered the ATI graphic card to be the noise problem!!...

Well... $50 i could have put on a bigger drive but....