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Help with PSU and fan choice

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First post, by Oink The Pentium

Posted on 2025-12-06, 11:17

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I'm currently building a win98 SE build and need some help figuring out how powerful the PSU and case should be

-PC specs
- Pentium III 1ghz
- ASUS CUV4X
- Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 128mb
- Soundblaster live
- Seagate 80gb HDD
- a DVD/CD multi drive
- fans (requires knowing of case)

anyone got recommendations?

Reply 1 of 4, by Oink The Pentium

Posted on 2025-12-09, 17:10

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Just so you know I'm still actively waiting.

Reply 2 of 4, by cyclone3d

Posted on 2025-12-09, 19:33

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Seasonic 350w 80+ bronze rated or better.

Season nic is my go-to brand but other high-end brands are ok as well as long as you can verify that there have been actual reviews with load and jitter (power quality) testing done on them to verify that they are good quality and meet the specs they claim.

Reason being is that the older stuff relies more on 5v power and this you need to get a more powerful PSU than you would have back in the day due to newer PSUs being heavily 12v oriented.

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