Power supply recommendations

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 03:38:48PM -0800, Bill Campbell took 31 lines to write:
> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004, Alan Jackson wrote:
> > >Well, I'm not much of a hardware guy, but I know some of you are.
> > >
> > >The fan on my power supply has failed, so I need to get another. It is
> > >a SKY HAWK SH250ATX, 250 watt. Should I just replace it with an identical
> > >one, or are there recommendations for something different? (The system was
> > >first booted up in May, 2001). Or maybe all power supplies are created equal?
> > >I doubt that!
> >
> > We have had excellent results with ``PC Power and Cooling'' power
> > supplies.  They're not the least expensive, but have proven very
> > robust and reliable.
>
> On a similar note, if a PC has a 250 watt power supply, is it acceptable to
> replace it with a quieter, say, 300 watt power supply?

Definitely.  There's no down side to having extra available power.

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