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First post, by melbar

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Have got a new, old stock AT desktop case. It is delivered with a 60W PSU. I was surprised that these low power units exists.

I have also a relatively rare colani big tower which has a 200W PSU inside. The sticker on the front shows: Highscreen Pentium.
This tower is similar to the middle colani tower on this VOBIS advertising:

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The advertising describes a Pentium P60 (socket 4).
The system in my colani tower, have bought it on ebay : P75 (socket 5). Don't know if it's the original setup.

Originally my plan was to build a Pentium 150/166 or 200 in the desktop, and let the colani at it's 75MHz.
But when i see the PSU data, and consider that the P75 has ~ 8W , the P166/200 has ~ 14W to 16W , i think to swap them is may better.

What do you think?

Reply 1 of 1, by DAVE86

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I've had a 486 system with a native 82 Watt psu. Aside from the standard AT motherboard connectors it could support 2 FDD and 2 HDD (Two small and two big peripheral molex connectors). It could run Pentium boards no problem too since those aren't too power hungry. It really depends on how many disk drives and extra stuff are you planning to use. If the psu has any over current fail-safe it shouldn't be risky though.

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