First post, by atariangamer
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Hello all,
I'm slowly getting parts together for my build, and I am now only missing some capacitors and a CPU cooler in order to complete it! However, I thought I had found a good PSU, but then I started to wondering about everyone's advisement to find PSUs with heavy 5v rails. I have a PIII-S for the Intel side, and I know it should be okay with any decent ATX PSU, but what keeps worrying me is the AMD Athlon that I'm wanting to run.
I currently have a 1GHz, but would really like a 1.4GHz chip, or perhaps to overclock my 1GHz chip. To the best of my knowledge, these are Thunderbird processors. I don't really want an Athlon XP because of... Well, reasons. I know Palomino runs much cooler and on less power, but I really like the idea of running a classic Athlon. However, I've looked all over the place, and cannot find a 5v rail greater than 25a. I even have a 400W "Athlon/P4 Ready" power supply, and it supplies only 18a.
I know there's a lot of arbitrary figures around, but is there a definitive strength that is required? And the natural follow up question, what power supplies fulfill these requirements?
I work on computers all day, just to come home and play with computers all night.