kony wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:06:56 -0500, Analabha Roy
> <daneelNOSPAM@physics.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> OK, I've been sufficiently frightened to buy a ridiculously expensive $80
>>PSU which I got this morning at FRY's. This one:
>>
>>http://www.antec.com/us/productDetai...?ProdID=26500#
>>
>>
>>
>> Hope it was worth it.
>
>
> How can you argue that $80 is ridiculously expensive when
> most motherboards, CPUs, SCSI HDDs and decent video cards
> cost far more?


Well my 128 Mb Radeon 9250 cost me only $50....




> Not sure what it is with people these days
> thinking a PSU is supposed to be cheap... if you want cheap
> then buy all small/old/slow system components too, which
> will use less power. If you reallly need > 400W PSU, $80 is
> a reasonable price point.


It's just that you can get good OEM/Clearence deals on SCSI HDD's, high
flop CPUs, mobos with 10 PCI/5 AGP/4 DIMM slots etc but nobody seems to
want to give deals on Antec PSU's ( I checked all the usual haunts: newegg,
ecost, techbargains etc). Vendor lock in?