I bought this power supply and installed it yesterday in my case. As you can see in the pictures there is a ground wire that is supposed to be attached to the case. My case is acrylic though, so I really can't use it as a ground. I attached it to one of the screws that holds my DVD Rom drive, I'm not sure if the case of the DVD Rom can be used as a ground or not... being an acrylic case I imagine any grounding still goes through the molex connector anyway.
I did search, I read in another thread that this is an 'EMI' ground... I don't know what that is.
Can someone explain? How important is it? Is there a better place for me to mount it? Seeing as my case is not conductive my options are fairly limited.
By the way, so far I like the power supply. I didn't spend the $240 it costs, Newegg had it for $170 either on special or by mistake (it was cheaper than the 700 and 800 watt units at the time) so I bought it for a decent price for a 900 watt power supply. It looks nice in my opinion, and my meager system doesn't come close to stressing it. Maybe I should get another 4870 and see how things go. Just got to convince the wife that I need a 24+ inch monitor first.
I did search, I read in another thread that this is an 'EMI' ground... I don't know what that is.
Can someone explain? How important is it? Is there a better place for me to mount it? Seeing as my case is not conductive my options are fairly limited.By the way, so far I like the power supply. I didn't spend the $240 it costs, Newegg had it for $170 either on special or by mistake (it was cheaper than the 700 and 800 watt units at the time) so I bought it for a decent price for a 900 watt power supply. It looks nice in my opinion, and my meager system doesn't come close to stressing it. Maybe I should get another 4870 and see how things go.
Just got to convince the wife that I need a 24+ inch monitor first. 
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