OT: New PC!

Phoenix-D · #1 December 18th, 2005, 03:36 AM

Definitely second Fyron's comment about cheap PSUs. The same thing goes for fans. If a RAM chip dies, no big deal, toss in another.

If a PSU goes, it can either A. do nothing B. take out a couple components C. nuke your whole system or D. (doesn't happen often) catch fire.

Fans, if they die without you noticing, will do any number of things. Case fan..not a big deal, you'll have time to notice. CPU fan? Modern CPUs will overheat more or less instantly without a fan.

AgentZero · #2 December 18th, 2005, 01:13 PM

/me is afraid now

It's been a good few years since I was last building PCs (to give you an idea the last one I built was a Pentium 200MHz, and it was state-of-the-art at the time), but I recall that power supplies used to have a little switch at the back for flipping betweent 220v and 110v. Is this not the case anymore?

And I've no intention of buying a 'cheap' PSU, or fans, or anything vital. I just want to get the best price that I can for good equipment.