mybearbrick
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Hi,
my little story goes like this...
One day, I was gifted with a Gigabyte Titan P4 mobo, with good o' out-dated 512 RD Ram and an Abit Geforce 4 Ti4200 by a kind relative who has been using it until he just upgraded.
Since I had been working on my essential notebook for general purposes, I have always wanted good station to run some 3D-based titles.
However, my 'mother base' was an AMD Athlon 700 on GeForce 2 MX, hence I would love to get my hands on a Processor to run on my gifted mobo.
After months of contemplating, I decided to buy an Intel P4 2.4AGhz 1MB Prescott. Then... the tragedy...
I set up all devices on the Gigabyte mobo with my new P4-2.4Ghz processor, Abit GeForce Ti4200, 10GB HDD, 3GB HDD, 1 CDRW and 1 FDD into an old decent tower and a generic 350W PSU. With much effort, I got it done up. Just after I hit the soft power button, the LEDs came on the then went off. Same thing with the processor fan. Puzzled , I consulted a friend. He said that my tower and PSU probably needs a change to support the power hungry mobo and graphics card. Heeding that advice, I went downtown and bought a relatively budget tower and a generic 400W. However, it couldnt work either. Feeling puzzled, I brought my tower to the dealer, they diagnosed it as a faulty mobo with 4 burst capacitors . Trying to sell me a new mobo at an expensive price, I refused and decided to hunt down a good price in the city.
Now that I had to get a new mobo, means a new RAM too. I bought an MSI 865PE Neo2 PLS mobo and a Kingston 512MB DDR400 RAM. After heading back to fix it all up, I powered it up and was testing my system with DOOM 3. I worked fine until 5 mins into the game, the power tripped and rebooted my system. I run the game again and this time it never rebooted again. The same thing had happened again on this new mobo. I was devastated. What can be wrong? Did I get a faulty mobo? Or did my tower cause a short circuit? Or my PSU is not powerful enough? I had given up.
I left for city the next day with my tower, seeking answers from the dealer who sold me my MSI mobo. But they decided to close for the day. Ouch!
Walking down the lane, I found myself standing outside a PC clinc. I was greeted by a friendly, cheerful and decent looking man (unlike the 2 dealers I've met the day before, who seem out to earn my $). He asked me if I needed help and will charge only after he diagnosed and that I have decided to let him repair it. Sounds fair! His first diagnosis is that a mobo doesn't spoil that easily and that it got to be the PSU. He grabbed a generic 400W PSU from his sale rack and proofed to me by powering my system up. He said that I was duped and got a poor grade generic PSU. He told me to hold the 2 PSUs and compare the weight. The one which I bought was less than half the weight of his. He commented that a PSU so light can explain why it doesn't work. He recommended that I can either buy his better 400W generic PSU and warrant for 30 days, or a much better 330W Tagan PSU which warrants for 3 years. However, that Tagan PSU costs double the price. The price of the Tagan is quite steep, for something lesser than that, I could get an AcBel 400W (which I think should be better??) or for 1.5 of the price, I could get an Antec 450W (which is even better). He managed to convince me that his generic PSU is good but cannot beat the benefit of a branded reliable PSU. I know nothing about PSUs. So I asked if that 300W Tagan can support my configuration. He replied yes, if I have no intentions to overclock. So I decided that better to play safe than be sorry with another generic PSU. I got the Tagan 330W PSU. We tried the Tagan on my system and it works well. Next he pinpointed that my graphics card had a faulty fan which doesnt turn. He changed a fan for me. In the end, I bought an 80GB HDD and an additional system fan to make it complete.
Now, I just hope nothing goes wrong. Though I regretted pay so much for that 330W which I worry might not suffice.
Now I just need to know,
can my 330W Tagan support this configuration?
Intel P4 2.4AGhz 1MB Prescott
MSI 865PE Neo2 PLS mobo
Abit Siluro GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB 8X AGP
512MB DDR400 RAM Kingston
80GB ATA100 2MB HDD
10GB ATA100 HDD
FDD
CDRW
I intend to add a DVD-RW drive in the near future.
To think I have started out with an intention to get one processor...
now I have paid so much that I could have gotten a customized bundle system.
Please let there be no more problems...
my little story goes like this...
One day, I was gifted with a Gigabyte Titan P4 mobo, with good o' out-dated 512 RD Ram and an Abit Geforce 4 Ti4200 by a kind relative who has been using it until he just upgraded.
Since I had been working on my essential notebook for general purposes, I have always wanted good station to run some 3D-based titles.
However, my 'mother base' was an AMD Athlon 700 on GeForce 2 MX, hence I would love to get my hands on a Processor to run on my gifted mobo.
After months of contemplating, I decided to buy an Intel P4 2.4AGhz 1MB Prescott. Then... the tragedy...
I set up all devices on the Gigabyte mobo with my new P4-2.4Ghz processor, Abit GeForce Ti4200, 10GB HDD, 3GB HDD, 1 CDRW and 1 FDD into an old decent tower and a generic 350W PSU. With much effort, I got it done up. Just after I hit the soft power button, the LEDs came on the then went off. Same thing with the processor fan. Puzzled , I consulted a friend. He said that my tower and PSU probably needs a change to support the power hungry mobo and graphics card. Heeding that advice, I went downtown and bought a relatively budget tower and a generic 400W. However, it couldnt work either. Feeling puzzled, I brought my tower to the dealer, they diagnosed it as a faulty mobo with 4 burst capacitors . Trying to sell me a new mobo at an expensive price, I refused and decided to hunt down a good price in the city.
Now that I had to get a new mobo, means a new RAM too. I bought an MSI 865PE Neo2 PLS mobo and a Kingston 512MB DDR400 RAM. After heading back to fix it all up, I powered it up and was testing my system with DOOM 3. I worked fine until 5 mins into the game, the power tripped and rebooted my system. I run the game again and this time it never rebooted again. The same thing had happened again on this new mobo. I was devastated. What can be wrong? Did I get a faulty mobo? Or did my tower cause a short circuit? Or my PSU is not powerful enough? I had given up.
I left for city the next day with my tower, seeking answers from the dealer who sold me my MSI mobo. But they decided to close for the day. Ouch!
Walking down the lane, I found myself standing outside a PC clinc. I was greeted by a friendly, cheerful and decent looking man (unlike the 2 dealers I've met the day before, who seem out to earn my $). He asked me if I needed help and will charge only after he diagnosed and that I have decided to let him repair it. Sounds fair! His first diagnosis is that a mobo doesn't spoil that easily and that it got to be the PSU. He grabbed a generic 400W PSU from his sale rack and proofed to me by powering my system up. He said that I was duped and got a poor grade generic PSU. He told me to hold the 2 PSUs and compare the weight. The one which I bought was less than half the weight of his. He commented that a PSU so light can explain why it doesn't work. He recommended that I can either buy his better 400W generic PSU and warrant for 30 days, or a much better 330W Tagan PSU which warrants for 3 years. However, that Tagan PSU costs double the price. The price of the Tagan is quite steep, for something lesser than that, I could get an AcBel 400W (which I think should be better??) or for 1.5 of the price, I could get an Antec 450W (which is even better). He managed to convince me that his generic PSU is good but cannot beat the benefit of a branded reliable PSU. I know nothing about PSUs. So I asked if that 300W Tagan can support my configuration. He replied yes, if I have no intentions to overclock. So I decided that better to play safe than be sorry with another generic PSU. I got the Tagan 330W PSU. We tried the Tagan on my system and it works well. Next he pinpointed that my graphics card had a faulty fan which doesnt turn. He changed a fan for me. In the end, I bought an 80GB HDD and an additional system fan to make it complete.Now, I just hope nothing goes wrong. Though I regretted pay so much for that 330W which I worry might not suffice.
Now I just need to know,
can my 330W Tagan support this configuration?
Intel P4 2.4AGhz 1MB Prescott
MSI 865PE Neo2 PLS mobo
Abit Siluro GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB 8X AGP
512MB DDR400 RAM Kingston
80GB ATA100 2MB HDD
10GB ATA100 HDD
FDD
CDRW
I intend to add a DVD-RW drive in the near future.
To think I have started out with an intention to get one processor...
now I have paid so much that I could have gotten a customized bundle system.
Please let there be no more problems...
and by solid i dont mean more watts (but that would go towards adding some buffer).