"Drive Bay Power Supply" question

[Woo Elephant Yeah]

I am thinking of getting one of these as per Berk's idea on the discussion board a while ago.



Now they have one listed on Amazon here for just £26.76, however it is the W0099 model whcih is stated as the Nvidia one, whereas I have an ATI card, and the ATI listed one is W0130.

I have looked at the specification on both the pages on Thermaltakes website, and they look identical, but I wanted to check with you lot if you think this is a safe assumption. I'm guessing that the only reason there is 2 model numbers for one product is that they are certified devices by both ATI & Nvidia, hence they want their own product numbers.

ATI = http://www.thermaltake.com/product/Powe ... /w0130.asp
Nvidia = http://www.thermaltake.com/product/Powe ... /w0099.asp

P.S. I have double checked, and I have a 24 pin connector on the motherboard.

[FatherJack]

They are different colours.

[mrbobbins]

Specs do look exactly the same

But how does this work if it's connected to your current PSU?

[buzzmong]

Specs do look exactly the same

But how does this work if it's connected to your current PSU?

It's not as such.

By looking at it, they just run the signaling from the mobo connector to this extra psu, as it's got it's own power supply from the wall socket.

The idea is that you have effectively two lower power psu's running rather than one big one.


Looks rather nifty actually, could be quite handy when running dual cards due to the consumption of juice.

[Fear]

But how does this work if it's connected to your current PSU?

If you didn't connect them together the two PSUs would not have a potential between them, and it would become lots of fail. All the linking does is most likely join 0v with 0v, and take a feed off the power on / power off signal.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

I'm guessing that the only reason there is 2 model numbers for one product is that they are certified devices by both ATI & Nvidia, hence they want their own product numbers.

That's most likely it, both ATI and nvidia are picky about what other certification goes onto the boxes. so it makes sense to change a sticker and have 2 products.

[HereComesPete]

This. It's the same thing, just ATi and Nvidia being fucking babies about everything.

[spoodie]

ZOMG!

2 power leads going into your PC! I remember when it was enough to run both PC and monitor off the same PSU, also this was all fields.

/old man blog

[Anhamgrimmar]

ZOMG!

2 power leads going into your PC! I remember when it was enough to run both PC and monitor off the same PSU, also this was all fields.

/old man blog

Yes dad. but that was called an amstrad CPC. and it only had 40 characters per line.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

Potentially it's still possible, just not many PSUs have a mains passthrough any more. :D

Beyond that, it's just a matter of current, and how much you can push down the mains.

[FatherJack]

That's most likely it, both ATI and nvidia are picky about what other certification goes onto the boxes. so it makes sense to change a sticker and have 2 products.

One's black and one's silver which I guess helps them to distinguish them in the factory. But I couldn't determine any other difference.

[Woo Elephant Yeah]

*orders*
thanks 5punkers

[Dr. kitteny berk]

*orders*
thanks 5punkers

Thpunkers

[Woo Elephant Yeah]

Finally got round to buying one from Amazon for £20 after the COD4 demo cried at me and called me names.

Next stop 2006 graphics gaming

[Dr. kitteny berk]

as you have a retarded motherboard, you might want to double check that the adaptor is actually connecting to the right cables (IIRC Green + any black are the cables that are used to tell the psu to start(on proper atx psus)) so if they're connected funny, that might be a bad thing*


*by might, I mean would be, and bad, I mean blue smoke.

[HereComesPete]

Is it a bad thing? An insurance claim for new stuff would see you get a superior rig.

All that new for old crap got me a new rig, I broke mine, it was shit, I then got the full price for my pc world beige box thats was a pentium mmx original, and got a p4 based rig from dell (hehehe)* with it, still came out profit after excess had been paid.



/back in the day when insurers had no clue as to technological advancement speeds blog


*In my defence, this was all before I got into making/caring about pc's, as soon as I did, and knew what dell did with proprietary parts etc, I told that pc to get teh fuck and built my own.