Antec Neo 500?

Discussion in 'Power Supplies and UPS's' started by rimmer, Sep 11, 2006.

  1. rimmer

    rimmer Geek

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    Insufficient Power?

    is it worth me thinkin about a antec neo 500watt, it has 3 12V RAILS and is heavy i think and costs £70
     
    rimmer, Sep 11, 2006
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  2. Willz

    Willz MiCrO$oFt $uK$ :D

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    Yes, it's a brill PSU :good:
     
    Willz, Sep 13, 2006
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  3. izzy007

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    Insufficient Power?

    ive gots an antec neo he 500. it is really quiet annd it proppa stable. get it as there arent that many psus that have 51amps and 38amps combined 12v rails with 456watt and a 500watt model. it cud easily be rated at 600watts but the 3.3 and 5v rails let it down a bit. not to worry becoz future hardware only mostly takes advantage of 12v rails.
     
    izzy007, Sep 13, 2006
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  4. rimmer

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    and what do the 3.3 and 5 rails do? control older hardware likme floppy drives? all i want is a PSu that will run my PC which will have 4 optical drives and 4-6 hard drives, and the rest is in my sig, thanks
     
    rimmer, Sep 23, 2006
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  5. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    IDE drives run on the 5V, but SATA drives run off the 12V. I'm not sure if this applies to SATA optical drives or not.

    RAM still runs of the 3.3V, and I believe the PCI slots do as well. Early PCI revisions called for 5V, but you'd have to go back to at least 2000 if not earlier to find that. Most things are moving toward 12V.
     
    Big B, Sep 24, 2006
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