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**Brian R.** · 2 March 2000, 11:40

My opinion - The 400 W PS is necessary for you taking into account future expandability and your location not being at the Mecca of computerdom.

Make sure any case you buy has adequate ventilation or at least space for additional fans to increase ventilation as needed. V2s make a lot of heat when active. Also, the next generation cards will add that much more heat to the system. If you really like your Glide games, better hang on to the V2s. I have.

If you want these two systems available, and if there is no way for them to be installed simultaneously, I would have two indentical HDs with each operating system on separate drives. A change in cables inside the computer would switch you from one to another. (There may be better ways of doing this.) One consequence of this type of system would be you would only need to have the applications for Win98 on the drive with the Win98 OS installed. The same for applications you use under Win95. Actually, come to think of it, you could keep both HDs connected all the time and disable one or the other in the BIOS at startup to select the operating system you want.

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**paulcs** · 2 March 2000, 18:12

A new power supply would be in order. The units that ship with AOpen cases do not have the best reputation in the world. 400 Watt power supplies are expensive, but you do have a lot of stuff in your machine. It certainly wouldn't hurt, although you'd probably get away with a 350.

PC Power & Cooling, Fortron Source, and Antec all make good power supplies.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

**Scout255** · 2 March 2000, 19:33

If you are interested in purchaseing a new powersupply, please send an e-mail to this guy
He has great prices and service.
Also, i'd have to sudgest a 350 watt psu too, they are a great midle between the 400's and cost signifigantly less.

**noclan_member** · 3 March 2000, 11:06

my local shop only sell PS under 300W. And there isnt any firms in Norway that have PS over 300W in theyr stock.. so i have to settle with a 300W or the 400W i found in Germany..

Is a 300W too little to handle my rig and 2-3 more fans ?
The 235W is for shure, cuz of the slowdowns in the fan speed when my hdds are working.

I dont know the prize for the 400W yet, but a 3x400W servercase i saw was a bit too expencive... so i dont think the 400W would be costing more than half of that (only the powersupply and no hightechservercase) and that i can handle..

but if a 300W is enough... i can get some more ram instead

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btw.. i now have W95 and W98SE on my pc..
I have to dissable my primary hdd in the bios to get to the other os.. but i can live with that for now. if you know a better solution than this i would be thankfull.
(guess i have to move some files now..)

**Wombat** · 3 March 2000, 12:19

Why do you have W95 on there still?

**Dyre** · 3 March 2000, 17:34

If youve got the room you can buy a 300w PS and splice it to the other PS with some basic electronics skill. then you would have about 535w's using your old one and a new 300w...

If you like this idea i can find the link on how to do this properly...

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generic BX motherboard
G400 MAX : )
GlobalWin VOS32!
Maxtor 13 gig UDMA 33
Maxtor 13 gig UDMA 66
Creative 36x CD-ROM
96 megs PC100 RAM
128 megs PC133 ECC RAM
NetGear 10/100
Soundblaster 32 AWE
Diamond SupraExpress 56k
Logitech Wireless Desktop (best $50 ive ever spent)
1 92mm Sunon Fan
4 80mm Sunon Fan's

**paulcs** · 3 March 2000, 19:49

Wattage is not the only consideration. Some 300 Watt power supplies are better than others.

I read a review where an Antec PP-303X, a 300 Watt unit, outperformed some AMD approved 400 Watt power supplies. They're, apparently, fairly easy to get. If you have to get a 300 Watt power supply, you want to get a good one.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[This message has been edited by paulcs (edited 04 March 2000).]

**noclan_member** · 3 March 2000, 20:56

Dyre:

Ive been thinking about that too.
I know about the cabel that gives the powersuply the "start" sign from the mobo. If i get a 300W for my Mobo, cards and two of my hdds, i can hotwire the 235W to the confirmsignalcabel and plug it on the last hdd and all the fans. But can i connect the two PS and get 535W ? hmm if you got the url, im sure im able to do some electonic magic on the putter
The tech dude at my local store talked about that, but he didnt know if it was possible, and didnt know how to do it. (he said it might be done but no prommise on the final result)

And yes the Aopen hq8 case im about to get is ready for two PS. There is an open space over the standard PS thats big enough to hold another ATX PS.

Paulcs:

I have to choose from the asortement my norwegiasan stores sells, they wont take in stuff from anywhere in the world. The 400W ive seen is in Germany and the company that owns the store do have some partners in Germany.. Thats why i can hope to get a hold of the 400.. Yes i can order any PS i want from a US UK firm on the web, but then i dont know what i get, and my local shop wont give me the security they would give me if i go thru them.
Ill get a list of the ¨few 300W thats avalable for me, then you maby can tell me if any of those is better than the rest ?

thx for the replyes

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