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Brian wrote:

> Power supplies less than 200 watts? You recycling 386 cases?  I don't
> believe I've seen less than 250 in awhile.
>

Rackmount Case's like 1RU's have 150Watt supplies and 2RU's can have 150's or
200's

David

>
>         Brian
>
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Dennis wrote:
>
> > At 12:02 PM 03/23/2001, Robert Hough wrote:
> > >On Fri, Mar 23, 2001, Ed Henderson wrote:
> > >
> > > > 1. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good MB to use?
> > >
> > >I like the Tyan boards for reliability. They are strong performers too,
> > >but other boards are known to be faster. I've got several Tyan Tomcats
> > >that have been running for close 3-4 years non-stop, without any problems.
> >
> >
> > I completely and totally believe the exact opposite.
> >
> > Several Tyan MBs, for example, spontaneously reboot regularly with power
> > supplies of less then 200 watts. They are so poorly engineered that Tyan
> > doesn't know why, and they dont have electrical specs on the MBs.  Intel's
> > comparable all-in-one, for example, is spec'd to require a minimum of
> > 146watts and works nicely with a 150watt supply.
> >
> > My conversations with tyan indicate that they dont engineer their boards
> > very well, nor do they test them in a wide range of environments. Luckily,
> > they did take back a boatload of MBs even though we had no boxes, so at
> > least they recognize their problems.
> >
> > Dennis
> >
> > .
> >
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