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Gavin78 · 24-01-2011, 01:21

Thought I would pop in and say I am running a 850watt psu £25 from my local market stall selling computer parts. I've never had a problem with them over the years.

Its powering a dualcore cpu 7850 BE, geforce 260gtx, 8 gig of ram, 4 HDD's (5 when external is on) 1 DVD drive (2 when external is on) laser printer when on and a creative sound card.

So far so good for 2 years now no problems with it (apart from the 3 pin socket is a little loose)

Just bought another from Ebuyer though a better branded one for my new build 900watt.

Thought I might add that when I first got into building pc's 1999 I didn't have a clue, first time round I screwed the mainboard onto the back plate without the brass pins in place to mount it and totally fried everything (myself included if I would have touched the case when I turned it on) its a shame really I took the tower unit to the guy in the shop and he just looked at me like an idiot when he saw what I had done. I was lucky he gave me a new board (cpu was fine)

2nd time I did it right only months later I tried to plug a cd writer in while the pc was switched on and the power cable sparked at the back of the cd rom and the pc shut down, it wouldn't start for about 10 minutes, after that it never worked right and it killed the graphics card as it never work 100% after that.

Lesson learnt over the years.

24-01-2011, 01:21	#25
Gavin78 Ice Cold Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: West Yorkshire Age: 47 Services: XL TV M Phone 1000MB BB Posts: 1,566	Re: Power Supply Units Thought I would pop in and say I am running a 850watt psu £25 from my local market stall selling computer parts. I've never had a problem with them over the years. Its powering a dualcore cpu 7850 BE, geforce 260gtx, 8 gig of ram, 4 HDD's (5 when external is on) 1 DVD drive (2 when external is on) laser printer when on and a creative sound card. So far so good for 2 years now no problems with it (apart from the 3 pin socket is a little loose) Just bought another from Ebuyer though a better branded one for my new build 900watt. Thought I might add that when I first got into building pc's 1999 I didn't have a clue, first time round I screwed the mainboard onto the back plate without the brass pins in place to mount it and totally fried everything (myself included if I would have touched the case when I turned it on) its a shame really I took the tower unit to the guy in the shop and he just looked at me like an idiot when he saw what I had done. I was lucky he gave me a new board (cpu was fine) 2nd time I did it right only months later I tried to plug a cd writer in while the pc was switched on and the power cable sparked at the back of the cd rom and the pc shut down, it wouldn't start for about 10 minutes, after that it never worked right and it killed the graphics card as it never work 100% after that. Lesson learnt over the years.