Power supply recommendations

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Nov 23, 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?

PC Power and Cooling has power supplies designed to be quiet.  We installed
one of these on a new computer that I installed recently where the buyer
was very sensitive to the noise level (btw, she's a 60+ psychologist who
has been using Linux as her only OS now since Caldera eDesktop 2.4, and
always tells her friends how much she likes it :-).

Bill
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