I am writing to ask the members here about upgrading to another power supply. I'm looking at the OCZ Modstream (either 520W or 450W but I'm leaning toward the 450W) and some of the issues buyers are commenting on seems to be that the PSU has a very short power cable and a fan that blows out the top of the unit.
Now I have an Antec case with no opening in the top and I'm wondering if this will be an issue for me as well. Would I have to cut a hole in the top of my case to accomodate this PSU? I'm not sure about the short power cable. Since they don't give a length for the cable I'm not sure if that would be a problem or not.
Another guy mentioned, "Just so you know this PSU has oly one 4-pin connector which means if you have a PCI-e motherboard that requires four different power plugs and a 3.5" floppy drive. You are going to need a floppy power adaptor because there is only one 4-pin connector that comes with this PSU."
I'm not sure what this means for me with my ASUS P4P800. Do you think it would present a problem? When I get home (I'm at work now) I'm going to get into the case and check the power connector on my current PSU to the MB.
I am not a expert in any of this, so I'm posting here to get some ideas from those who know their stuff. As for computer specs I ran a report using Everest Home:
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Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 5.1.2600 (WinXP Retail)
Date 2005-09-15
Time 21:35
[ Summary ]
Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4, 2400 MHz (12 x 200)
Motherboard Name Asus P4P800 (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 WiFi, 4 DDR DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)
Motherboard Chipset Intel Springdale i865PE
System Memory 512 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Asus AMI (04/22/03)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM2)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (128 MB)
Video Adapter RADEON 7000 / RADEON VE Family (Microsoft Corporation) (64 MB)
Video Adapter RADEON 7000 / RADEON VE Family (Microsoft Corporation) (64 MB)
3D Accelerator ATI RV100 DDR
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Monitor Dell D825HT [15" CRT] (94051CAAEX97)
Monitor Jean JD155/JD166 (93213396)
Multimedia:
Audio Adapter C-Media CMI8738/C3DX Audio Device
Audio Adapter Intel 82801EB ICH5 - AC'97 Audio Controller [A-2/A-3]
Storage:
IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive Maxtor 6Y060L0 (60 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Optical Drive LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1673S
SMART Hard Disks Status OK
Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 58635 MB (49090 MB free)
Input:
Keyboard Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse Logitech USB TrackMan Wheel
Network:
Network Adapter 3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940) (24.247.1.224)
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Thank you.
- dc
Now I have an Antec case with no opening in the top and I'm wondering if this will be an issue for me as well. Would I have to cut a hole in the top of my case to accomodate this PSU? I'm not sure about the short power cable. Since they don't give a length for the cable I'm not sure if that would be a problem or not.
Another guy mentioned, "Just so you know this PSU has oly one 4-pin connector which means if you have a PCI-e motherboard that requires four different power plugs and a 3.5" floppy drive. You are going to need a floppy power adaptor because there is only one 4-pin connector that comes with this PSU."
I'm not sure what this means for me with my ASUS P4P800. Do you think it would present a problem? When I get home (I'm at work now) I'm going to get into the case and check the power connector on my current PSU to the MB.
I am not a expert in any of this, so I'm posting here to get some ideas from those who know their stuff. As for computer specs I ran a report using Everest Home:
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Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 5.1.2600 (WinXP Retail)
Date 2005-09-15
Time 21:35
[ Summary ]
Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4, 2400 MHz (12 x 200)
Motherboard Name Asus P4P800 (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 WiFi, 4 DDR DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)
Motherboard Chipset Intel Springdale i865PE
System Memory 512 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Asus AMI (04/22/03)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM2)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (128 MB)
Video Adapter RADEON 7000 / RADEON VE Family (Microsoft Corporation) (64 MB)
Video Adapter RADEON 7000 / RADEON VE Family (Microsoft Corporation) (64 MB)
3D Accelerator ATI RV100 DDR
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Monitor Dell D825HT [15" CRT] (94051CAAEX97)
Monitor Jean JD155/JD166 (93213396)
Multimedia:
Audio Adapter C-Media CMI8738/C3DX Audio Device
Audio Adapter Intel 82801EB ICH5 - AC'97 Audio Controller [A-2/A-3]
Storage:
IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive Maxtor 6Y060L0 (60 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Optical Drive LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1673S
SMART Hard Disks Status OK
Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 58635 MB (49090 MB free)
Input:
Keyboard Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse Logitech USB TrackMan Wheel
Network:
Network Adapter 3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940) (24.247.1.224)
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Thank you.
- dc
