On 26 Sep 2005 08:37:23 -0700, "cyber0ne"
<cyber0ne1@gmail.com> wrote:

>Awesome, thanks. Actually, by the time I'd come back and read your
>reply, pricewatch.com had changed up their order of power supplies and
>now I found a low-priced one (I'd love a higher quality one, but
>money's too tight right now) that matches the amp ratings on all
>voltages except allows higher values on the +/-12V values. So, by what
>you've said, that's likely a better power supply than what I was going
>to buy and better than what's in the machine.

Absolutely not!

You cannot use amperage ratings as a guide to purchase of a
cheap power supply. It should be (maybe is) fraudulent how
most cheap power supplies are rated. Sadly there is usually
a closer correspondance between price and actual, true
amperage capacity, than the amperage rating and true
capacity.

>
>Now I just have to cross my fingers and hope that the power supply is,
>in fact, what's wrong with the machine...


If you choose a quality name-brand PSU you can have more
confidence in the amperage rating. It's quite common for
so-called 500W PSU to be closer to 300W in a good name-brand
PSU, regardless of what's printed on the generic's label or
a website.