Hi all,
Thanks to fiscal reasons and a case of being robbed, I had to put together a machine built out of old parts.
Now, bless it, it's done me proud and managed a few games. This is the spec.
P4 2.8 GHZ
1gb Corsair VS
Radeon 9250
40g IDE HD
bla bla other stuff.
Now I didn't have a case so I bought one of the cheap scan ones with the 450w inbuilt power supply.
I bought Test Drive Unlimited which I love but the machine wont run it.
I do have a Radeon 9800 (which is the rec spec for the game) , but when I put it in the machine it wouldn't work and it basically died.
I presumed this was down to the power supply as I remember from when I bought it, it was power hungry, as is the P4 so along with the rest of the stuff, the crappest PSU in the world (The one that comes with those cheap cases) probably wont cope to well.
I was wondering if you think any of the budget 500w PSUs (the EZcool for example) would cope better, or if you could suggest any sub £30 PSUs that might run the machine satisfactorily?
Sorry this isn't about i7s and cool stuff, but there we are!