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What to put this PSU in?

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First post, by brostenen

Posted on 2015-10-02, 09:06

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I have this Acer Atx-PSU, that are low noise and is working 100%. The bad news is the low rating's 🙁
Another bad news, is that is has only one molex for HDD's and one for FDD's, the rest is SATA-Power.

The question is now. What sort of system, can this be put in. It does not have -5volt.
Translated to, a 286/386/486 (with converter) being out of the question.

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Reply 1 of 9, by Tetrium

Posted on 2015-10-02, 11:05

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The SATA connectors are easy to convert to molex (I got a small bag of SATA2Molex adapters in my attic somewhere) and your PSU is good enough for a Pentium III (especially if it makes no use of ISA cards, then the -5v shouldn't be an issue, kinda like you already mentioned).
I don't know if Acer-branded PSU's are any good though, the printing kinda reminds me of FSP but it's better to do some research about who made it.

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Reply 2 of 9, by brostenen

Posted on 2015-10-02, 13:35

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Ahhh.... Think I will have to do some soldering then.
I have a couple of bad PSU's that can be butchered for the molex connectors.
By the way. It is a Liteon PSU.

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Reply 3 of 9, by ODwilly

Posted on 2015-10-02, 19:59

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Liteon power supplies are great in my experience 😀 them and Hi-pro are my favorite OEM power supplies to find in garbage office machines. Never have found one of either with bad caps yet, they always use big aluminum heatsinks and are ALWAYS good for their rated wattage.

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Reply 4 of 9, by brostenen

Posted on 2015-10-02, 21:15

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Thanks for the info. 😀

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Reply 5 of 9, by Logistics

Posted on 2015-10-03, 14:06

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ODwilly wrote:
Liteon power supplies are great in my experience 😀 them and Hi-pro are my favorite OEM power supplies to find in garbage office machines. Never have found one of either with bad caps yet, they always use big aluminum heatsinks and are ALWAYS good for their rated wattage.

I've had the opposite experience with both brands.

Reply 6 of 9, by brostenen

Posted on 2015-10-03, 18:32

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Speaking of minus 5 volt. Are there any ISA sound cards that do not require minus 5 volt?

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Reply 7 of 9, by alexanrs

Posted on 2015-10-03, 19:18

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Almost all of them, really.
AFAIK SBPro/16/AWE32/AWE64 do not need it. Nor do most SBPro+WSS clones.

Reply 8 of 9, by brostenen

Posted on 2015-10-03, 19:43

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Ahh... So I could actually use this PSU with an K6-2, Voodoo1 and AWE64-Gold.
Besides a PCI-Only machine.

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Reply 9 of 9, by ODwilly

Posted on 2015-10-03, 23:54

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Logistics wrote:
ODwilly wrote:
Liteon power supplies are great in my experience 😀 them and Hi-pro are my favorite OEM power supplies to find in garbage office machines. Never have found one of either with bad caps yet, they always use big aluminum heatsinks and are ALWAYS good for their rated wattage.

I've had the opposite experience with both brands.

Hey, most likely depends on the models. Mine all came out of enterprise class P4 machines which might explain my luck. Regardless of brand the safe thing to do is pop any power supply open and check it out before using it.

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