- the PSU can probably be whatever generic crap NewEgg sells this
week without making much difference
Ha! See my other post. The PS boils down to "I want the gamut between weird hard-to-pin-down problems through to no-POST and actual fires with my system sooner rather than later" vs "I want to never have problems". Been selling hardware / custom systems since 1997 and learned my PS lessons the hard way... YMMV of course. Funny, the #1 hardest thing to research and source are good PS's.
As an ex-hardware seller myself (who should have always stayed in software development and consulting instead), I have to resoundingly agree with Trevor's comments on the importance of a quality power supply, where quality means clean, reliable, long-term output, not watts.
As for fires and explosions (big capacitors make spectacular noise and white smoke), yes, those events are for real - both I and some customers long ago experienced those, and one cat almost got a heart attack.
Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331
On 11 May 2017 at 02:21, Trevor Cordes trevor@tecnopolis.ca wrote: [.....]