Understood, but the PSU's of 1998 wasted a serious amount of power as
heat ( ok, the PC's back then didn't need as much power I admit).
Nowadays, you'll find PSU's that are above 85 % efficiency at 20, 50 and
100% loads. Only losing 15% electricity as waste heat may seem severe to
some but fantastic to me considering the difficulty making a near
perfect conversion of AC to DC power. Hey, wasn't there a rock band that
sang about that?
DSinc wrote:
Seasonic may be near-best now; but in 1998, I doubt that any of us
knew who Seasonic was (at retail). Greg indicates that Seasonic did
make some of the pcp&c units. Fine. Perhaps my autopsy of this
Turbo-Cool 300 ATX will uncover just "who" really made it!
Best,
Duncan
swzaske wrote:
Seasonic is consistently rated as near best in the world.
Naushad Zulfiqar wrote:
Replace it with another of the same brand.
On Oct 17, 2009 9:44 PM, "DSinc" <[email protected]> wrote:
Last night I suffered an odd psu failure. I do so hate when old
stuff dies;
even though I expect it.
The pc would turn on, spin up the HD, complete POST, and continue (I
assume). But I had no mouse, kbd, or video. Suspected severe psu
sag or
some huge m/b failure (asus cubx)! Swapped the psu out and the pc is
fine
again.
The old psu was the very first PCP&C psu I ever bought back in 1998.
This
old psu has been run 24/7 since install. It was days shy of its' 11th
complete year! I consider this good service for its' $200 cost back
in 1998.
It is a Turbo-Cool 300 ATX. I am doing an autopsy ATM....... :)
The fan still works!
Best,
Duncan
