Weird Dell...... It's actually normal.... sort of....

[bumblebee_tuna]

Ok, this is pretty weird but my friend wanted me to look at his Dell and it actually has a normal ATX PSU.... I've always heard they were different.....

 

[The_Other_One]

I think early ones had non-standard ATX PSU's, but current ones are quite standard.

 

[SirKenin]

It all depends on the model. As far as I know all of their current Mid-ATX models are standard ATX form factor.

 

[Cromewell]

In the last year and a half or so Dell started using standard pinouts on all their machines.

 

[bumblebee_tuna]

In the last year and a half or so Dell started using standard pinouts on all their machines.

But he said it was like two or three years old.....

 

[The_Other_One]

Oh it's been much longer than just a year and a half... I had to work on some old GX150's(pentium 3's) and they used standard pinouts.

 

[Sacrinyellow5]

I had a dell-p2 in a custom ATX case a while back, so not all of them were different.

 

[Cromewell]

More than a year and a half for all Dell Machines? Maybe 2 years but I'm fairly certain that some of their models used nonstandard pinouts before that.

 

[The_Other_One]

I remember some 486 models I had used what appeared to be an ATX power supply, but I never tried to see if it'd fix/work in other motherboards, or visversa.

 

[bumblebee_tuna]

I gotta tell you though, Dells are definitely made weird..... The case sort of rolls out when you open it, the CPU has a passive heatsink that has tube-thingy that leads towards the rear exhaust fan and the case has absolutely no ventilation at all so I don't know where the air come from that cools the heatsink....

 

[The_Other_One]

Sounds just like an Optiplex GX280 I had to work on some of those over the summer.