Hi.
I've got most of the bits of a new PC kicking about, so I thought I'd stick them together and see what happened. I think the only thing I'm missing is a case - don't suppose anyone's got one spare, or knows where I could pick one up dirt cheap?
Ta.
On Friday 21 May 2004 12:28, Joe Button wrote:
Hi.
I've got most of the bits of a new PC kicking about, so I thought I'd stick them together and see what happened. I think the only thing I'm missing is a case - don't suppose anyone's got one spare, or knows where I could pick one up dirt cheap?
Ta.
Ebuyer (www.ebuyer.com) have a JNC 5JA 60 at £14.99+VAT. Fairly lightweight - who'd be surprised at that price - but with a very quiet 400W PSU. I'm pleased enough with mine. There are several other similar models.
-- GT
On 21 May 2004, at 16:26, Graham Trott wrote:
Ebuyer (www.ebuyer.com) have a JNC 5JA 60 at £14.99+VAT. Fairly lightweight - who'd be surprised at that price - but with a very quiet 400W PSU. I'm pleased enough with mine. There are several other similar models.
Be aware of those PSU. Some of them are so horrid which most of the time get blown up (with smoke pouring out the back) or die the next day for no reasons.
C
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:05:04AM +0100, Craig wrote:
On 21 May 2004, at 16:26, Graham Trott wrote:
Ebuyer (www.ebuyer.com) have a JNC 5JA 60 at £14.99+VAT. Fairly lightweight - who'd be surprised at that price - but with a very quiet 400W PSU. I'm pleased enough with mine. There are several other similar models.
Be aware of those PSU. Some of them are so horrid which most of the time get blown up (with smoke pouring out the back) or die the next day for no reasons.
I have posted this here before I think and it is perhaps worth a mention again as to what can happen with some cheap PSUs. Unfortunately they don't seem to get reviewed very often compared to motherboards, cpus, and graphics cards etc. so it can be hard to tell what is good and bad.
http://www4.tomshardware.com/howto/20021021/
Adam
On 24 May 2004, at 10:06, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
Ebuyer (www.ebuyer.com) have a JNC 5JA 60 at £14.99+VAT. Fairly lightweight - who'd be surprised at that price - but with a very quiet 400W PSU. I'm pleased enough with mine. There are several other similar models.
Be aware of those PSU. Some of them are so horrid which most of the time get blown up (with smoke pouring out the back) or die the next day for no reasons.
I have posted this here before I think and it is perhaps worth a mention again as to what can happen with some cheap PSUs. Unfortunately they don't seem to get reviewed very often compared to motherboards, cpus, and graphics cards etc. so it can be hard to tell what is good and bad.
Excellent URL there. I will be bookmarking this to show anyone else in the future :)
C
On Monday 24 May 2004 09:05, Craig wrote:
On 21 May 2004, at 16:26, Graham Trott wrote:
Ebuyer (www.ebuyer.com) have a JNC 5JA 60 at £14.99+VAT. Fairly lightweight - who'd be surprised at that price - but with a very quiet 400W PSU. I'm pleased enough with mine. There are several other similar models.
Be aware of those PSU. Some of them are so horrid which most of the time get blown up (with smoke pouring out the back) or die the next day for no reasons.
C
Fair enough, but Joe did ask for a cheap case. The customer reviews of this one are very good, though I haven't been through them all the see if anyone had one blow up. And the article at tomshardware didn't confine its criticisms to cheap models, so it seems we can't win either way.
-- GT
Thanks for all suggestions for cases - I now have a fine looking case courtesy of the lovely Jonathan.
Next time I want anything I'm just going to ask here and wait for someone who lives just down the road to donate it to me again. Hm, I could really do with a new 21" TFT monitor...
Joe
On Monday 24 May 2004 16:28, Graham Trott wrote:
On Monday 24 May 2004 09:05, Craig wrote:
On 21 May 2004, at 16:26, Graham Trott wrote:
Ebuyer (www.ebuyer.com) have a JNC 5JA 60 at £14.99+VAT. Fairly lightweight - who'd be surprised at that price - but with a very quiet 400W PSU. I'm pleased enough with mine. There are several other similar models.
Be aware of those PSU. Some of them are so horrid which most of the time get blown up (with smoke pouring out the back) or die the next day for no reasons.
C
Fair enough, but Joe did ask for a cheap case. The customer reviews of this one are very good, though I haven't been through them all the see if anyone had one blow up. And the article at tomshardware didn't confine its criticisms to cheap models, so it seems we can't win either way.
-- GT
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On Monday 24 May 2004 08:05, Craig wrote:
Be aware of those PSU. Some of them are so horrid which most of the time get blown up (with smoke pouring out the back) or die the next day for no reasons.
Good advice, Reminds me of an incident at my previous post of employment.
We had artists sitting on (what were then) extremely high specification machines. Twin PIII 500, 512MB, twin SCSI 9GB drives and £1700 worth of 3DLabs graphics card. All in all these workstations ran to about £4000 plus.
Strange then (I hasten to add a decision made before my time) that the PSU spec on these machines was a standard (and very cheap and nasty) desktop PSU, it struggled to run such a configuration at the best of times, once I had discovered this flaw we set about replacing them as quickly as we could....unfortunately not quick enough as one day a rather bemused user came to me to say that upon boot his machine had emmited black smoke from the rear fan.
Further investigation showed that before committing suicide the PSU had managed to spike one of the rails, to such a point that almost everything on that machine was toast, MainBoard, RAM, Processors, that expensive 3D card, Drives EVEN THE KEYBOARD ! Chips had actually blown their tops.
Decent PSU's have effective crowbar overvoltage protection, and should never do this. Cheap ones can. In this case for the want of a few quid spent on a better powersupply a £4000 machine was a total loss and we had an (equally expensive) artist twiddling his thumbs for a day while I built him a new machine.
Not so relevant to building a cheap machine out of scrap parts, but I thought I'd share neverless.
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