--- Daniel Lee Kruse  wrote:

> --- In
> 
> > Nevertheless, I still don't see why on Earth I should replace a
> working 
> > power supply just like that.
> > 
> > Dunno about bucks, but my euro resources are limited. :-)
> > 
> > -- 
> > Groeten uit Gent,
> > 
> >    Kris
> 
> Why is it electronics are getting lower and lower in quality?  Wait,
> those companies want your purchasing dollars sooner than what good
> quality electronics would allow.
> 
> Still...
> I'd rather purchase a high quality (is there such? where does Antec
> fall?) power supply at $100  and have it last 20 years whereas buying
> these $35 - $40 power supplies lasting 5 years tops.  Wait a minute,
> those "cheap" power supplies are actually more expensive.  The $35
> power supplies at five years end up costing $140 over 20 years.
> 
> As an aside, my Enermax lasted almost four years to the day.  Not a
> cheap brand from the start.

Are we overtaxing our power supplies nowadays? It seems the old XTs and
ATs had big heavy power supplies rated at about 100 to 200 watts. Now
we have light ATX 450 watt power supplies running faster hotter
processors, a lot more memory, bunches of peripherals, including any
USB attachments directly to the motherboard power, and all those LED
lights that make computer cases bright enough to read by now. So if we
are running 80 to 90 or more percent rated capacity, these little power
supplies just cannot keep it up forever, eh? Oh, and there's that
problem of the large world supply of electrolytic capacitors that are
drying out in a couple years?

So how much power do we expect to use with an average gaming computer
today?

Franklin


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