COMP GEEKS RANDOM GREEN light specia sale ! going on now!!

[GprophetB]

I DONT know what the details of this "random" sale is

but i caught it with over 50 minutes to go

anyone care to say whats the best PSU on sale right now (they all look like poo)


www.compgeeks.com

 

[RaDragon]

Yah, I'm not so sure about those PSUs... TY for the heads-up, though!

 

[GprophetB]

np, you never know who may want one of these special PSUs,

even if not i got a kick out of the 680 watt echostar LOL

 

[Diz2K2]

thanks

 

[osiris3mc]

Link for the lazy.

 

[gshock888]

good cheap price to get in case the cheap ones i already have craps out so i can have another cheap one to replace immediately

 

[GprophetB]

Originally posted by: gshock888
good cheap price to get in case the cheap ones i already have craps out so i can have another cheap one to replace immediately

...??


YEAH!!!


jk man i decoded your messege. I guess its not a bad idea to keep a spare around.

 

[JohnDoh]

Originally posted by: osiris3mc
Link for the lazy.

<-lazy, ty


how are these speakers? http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=YT-805

I see them everywhere in black and beige for under $10, anyone happened to purchase these before?

 

[VirtualLarry]

I wouldn't buy any PSUs from Compgeeks, most of the ones that they sell aren't even UL listed/FCC approved. In fact, due to lack of FCC approval, they may not even be technically legal to sell in the US for residential use. Buying any non-UL-approved/tested PSU is like playing with fire though - literally.

Directron.com has really good prices on much better PSUs, for not much more money. (Fortron, HighPower/Chieftec/ThermalTake, SuperFlower/TTGI, etc.) They currently have a 360W Chieftec, which is the same model as the 360W ThermalTake (made by HighPower), for only $20. No SATA connectors though, but otherwise looks solid to me. Ordered one of those and one of the colored 520W SuperFlower/TTGI models yesterday.

Edit: Btw, it's really a bad idea to keep a "spare cheapo" PSU around in case your current one dies. You never know when the death of some el-cheapo $10 non-approved PSU will burst into flame or take out your entire mobo/system, HDs, data, etc., with it. Why not just spend a little more up-front, for something that's halfway decent?

 

[realdeals]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
I wouldn't buy any PSUs from Compgeeks, most of the ones that they sell aren't even UL listed/FCC approved. In fact, due to lack of FCC approval, they may not even be technically legal to sell in the US for residential use. Buying any non-UL-approved/tested PSU is like playing with fire though - literally.

Directron.com has really good prices on much better PSUs, for not much more money. (Fortron, HighPower/Chieftec/ThermalTake, SuperFlower/TTGI, etc.) They currently have a 360W Chieftec, which is the same model as the 360W ThermalTake (made by HighPower), for only $20. No SATA connectors though, but otherwise looks solid to me. Ordered one of those and one of the colored 520W SuperFlower/TTGI models yesterday.

Edit: Btw, it's really a bad idea to keep a "spare cheapo" PSU around in case your current one dies. You never know when the death of some el-cheapo $10 non-approved PSU will burst into flame or take out your entire mobo/system, HDs, data, etc., with it. Why not just spend a little more up-front, for something that's halfway decent?

Agreed!! Safe yourselft some grieve and stay away from cheap PSUs

 

[unclebud]

thanks for the link
also mentioning i was at a computer show and this guy was selling hp 325 cases with 400w powersupply for $30
i see next to them on the table, powersupply is selling by itself for $18, some purple box with a big letter A and a lightining bolt
so i ask him, "hey, what'll you'll sell the case without the ps?"
"can't sell it without the ps"
whaaaat?
gotta be some junk then... know what that lighting bolt for... be some sparks plugging that raggedy joka up...
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[Kevin]

Cheap power supplies seem to be hit or miss. I picked up a 400watt Powmax from a local computer show a few years back for $18. I used it in a test machine with no problems for a month or so straight. Now it just sits as a backup. I probably wouldn't use it for anything other than a web browser machine...

 

[GprophetB]

yeah i agree, my little brothers system is running on a 450 watt powmax (i just sleeved a similar powmax) for a while now. no problems

 

[VirtualLarry]

I'm currently running my rig in a Codegen mid-tower with factory 350W PSU, 4 opticals, 3 HDs, R9200 AGP, 3 x 256MB DDR, so far it's been "ok", but I've been having more problem lately, and I wonder if perhaps the PSU isn't getting a bit old, or the mobo caps, or something. Had some "infinite loop" errors with the video driver, sometimes hitting the reset switch after XP says it's ok to power-down, causes the monitor to go to sleep, and the system doesn't reset/reboot, and holding in the rest button, I can hear the case fans slow down too. I have to hold the power button in to shutdown. I've also had cold-boot issues. Most of them started with the addition of the ATI R9200 AGP though, and this KT400 chipset is known for some AGP 8x "wierdness", so I dunno. I flashed to the most recent BIOS, and with any versions more recent than the "fix R9600 compatibility issue" engineering change documented, I don't seem to have infinite-loop problems. (Although I do have not-resetting problems.) But those BIOS version also involved changes in LAN BIOS/boot support, which hoses the ability of any of my HDs on my Promise Ultra100 TX2 from being seen under DOS/BIOS, save for the very first one. Strange stuff indeed. I assume that the BIOS possibly changed AGP drive strength settings, or tweaked some chipset regs as a workaround, but that doesn't explain the malfunction of the hard reset button, or the case fans slowing down, so I figure I'll try a better/bigger PSU. I'm right on the edge, as some online PSU calculators put my system at around "360W". Also noticed that my 3-year-old Tripp-Lite 450/500VA / "300/350W" UPS only has a runtime of about a minute and a half, when powering both my system, my 17" NEC CRT, and some aux devices, instead of five, so either I'm sucking up more juice, or the battery is shot (probably likely).

This same CPU/mobo killed the 300W infamous "Deer" brand PSU that I had in my old case within a week of hooking it up. So I figure that the Codegen PSU must be at least a step above the bottom, as far as "generic" PSUs go. It's no Fortron though. It's a tiny bit on the lightweight side, and gets a bit warm while running.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
I'm currently running my rig in a Codegen mid-tower with factory 350W PSU, 4 opticals, 3 HDs, R9200 AGP, 3 x 256MB DDR, so far it's been "ok", but I've been having more problem lately, and I wonder if perhaps the PSU isn't getting a bit old, or the mobo caps, or something. Had some "infinite loop" errors with the video driver, sometimes hitting the reset switch after XP says it's ok to power-down, causes the monitor to go to sleep, and the system doesn't reset/reboot, and holding in the rest button, I can hear the case fans slow down too. I have to hold the power button in to shutdown. I've also had cold-boot issues. Most of them started with the addition of the ATI R9200 AGP though, and this KT400 chipset is known for some AGP 8x "wierdness", so I dunno. I flashed to the most recent BIOS, and with any versions more recent than the "fix R9600 compatibility issue" engineering change documented, I don't seem to have infinite-loop problems. (Although I do have not-resetting problems.) But those BIOS version also involved changes in LAN BIOS/boot support, which hoses the ability of any of my HDs on my Promise Ultra100 TX2 from being seen under DOS/BIOS, save for the very first one. Strange stuff indeed. I assume that the BIOS possibly changed AGP drive strength settings, or tweaked some chipset regs as a workaround, but that doesn't explain the malfunction of the hard reset button, or the case fans slowing down, so I figure I'll try a better/bigger PSU. I'm right on the edge, as some online PSU calculators put my system at around "360W". Also noticed that my 3-year-old Tripp-Lite 450/500VA / "300/350W" UPS only has a runtime of about a minute and a half, when powering both my system, my 17" NEC CRT, and some aux devices, instead of five, so either I'm sucking up more juice, or the battery is shot (probably likely).

This same CPU/mobo killed the 300W infamous "Deer" brand PSU that I had in my old case within a week of hooking it up. So I figure that the Codegen PSU must be at least a step above the bottom, as far as "generic" PSUs go. It's no Fortron though. It's a tiny bit on the lightweight side, and gets a bit warm while running.

get a better psu and put the crt on its own ups already

 

[mscdex0]

Looks like most of the stuff on sale is the stuff left over from the midnight sale they had the other night.

 

[oslama]

its even cheaper than mm sale.

i paid 17 for proview 52x cdrw no its on sale for 15.50

good deal on the sony 530a dvd burner

 

[oslama]

another sale , hour and and half left

 

[oslama]

midnight madness is on again

2/14/05

 

[EF9]

Is this worth getting?

 

[GreyMulkin]

Originally posted by: EF9
Is this worth getting?

I have one. Tried hooking it up to my router with no signal improvement, then tried hooking it up to my desktop card and I lost my signal alot less often. I didn't do any benchmarks.