Don't bother spending big bucks on a power supply that will last 20 
years unless you intend to stick with the same computer for 20 years: 
every few years they adopt new "standards" for either voltages or 
physical format so that a new motherboard will need a new power supply, 
case and graphics card.

I don't think any of my power supplies here is newer than 5 years old. I 
think that every one of them is whatever no-name came with the case, 
except for the one Antec case that of course came with an Antec p/s.

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Alan


On 07/11/05 09:42 am Daniel Lee Kruse tossed the following ingredients 
into the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

> 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.


 
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