From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jul 21 18:20:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 649E714EF9 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 18:20:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from summoner@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 22276 invoked by alias); 22 Jul 1999 01:20:41 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 22251 invoked by uid 0); 22 Jul 1999 01:20:40 -0000 Received: from edsl209.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (209.180.175.209) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 22 Jul 1999 01:20:40 -0000 Message-ID: <379671EB.F6315807@uswest.net> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 18:20:43 -0700 From: Summoner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rainer M Duffner Cc: David Wolfskill , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First time for my own PC hardware References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rainer M Duffner wrote: > On Wed 21 Jul, David Wolfskill wrote: > >> Same asset-recovery shop had some ATX chassis/power supplies, so I >> picked one up. > > Be sure to get a decent power-supply. > German c't magazine did a test some time ago. > Tough, the quality seems to have increased, compared from what I saw on > the test one year ago. It would seem that way, but common/stock (read case mfg supplied) power supplies have been deteriorating in quality. Nearly all mainboards these days now have voltage regulators and so many capacitors on them that power supply shortcomings are hard to discover. All the servers and workstations I build have PC Power & Cooling units in them and I must say I'm very happy with the results, never had one die on me (that hadn't been abused). > Aren't there two types of ATX-standards ? > (The latest is ATX 2.01) > I don't visit http://www.tomshardware.com very often, but I'd expect to > find some answers on it. > (Note that all info on this page may be biased ("sponsors") or not.) I'm not sure about ATX 2.01, but there's ATX and MicroATX. ATX has seven slots, MicroATX is pretty much an ATX board with the bottom/ right 3 expansion slots but off. The two are identical otherwise, I believe. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message