I got home last week on a really windy day to find that a brown out had fried the OP1200 $400 power supply feeding my wind0ze box.



It has a 3 year warranty, so they'll replace it for free, but with my (planned) move to Vancouver, WA this month, sending it for a 3 week RMA process doesn't make any sense - the last thing I want to do is have it sent to my old address.

That means no windows and no games and no NS, probably until near the end of July.

I might find a cheap replacement, but I'm hesitant to throw anything crappy in there when the components have such a voracious power requirement.

--Locane

If your computer actually has a 1200 watt power supply requirement I'd applaud you for finding enough crap that could fit into one case to use all that power. Is that like four 9800gx2's with 9 ssd's in raid0?

he has to power goobag

moving to Vancouver, Wa. is punishment enough for this transgression of missing out on Jigglypuff fun

locane down!

The power supply just blocked you like it was nothing

LMFAO


And, Zorlac, my system doesn't need 1200 watts of power, but it does need to have 30 amps on the 3.3 / 5 volt rail. This according to some people at Asus who told me the Crosshair motherboard requires that much to keep it going.

I wish Steam worked with Linux, I have a linux box. Maybe I should dual boot or something.

--Locane

I've never seen a psu with 30A on the 3.3v.... just 24. Sounds a bit fishy to need that much on the 3.3

Wine maybe?

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=1554

wine pretty good for fat people

Well there's your problem. Listening to people from Asus.

You probably don't need a 1200W power supply. Just need to look into a different brand. I seriously, seriously doubt you need 30A on both the 3.3V and 5V rails. Unless you're being obscenely silly and running one of the new 4x crossfire, and even then I don't think that actually uses much off anything but the 12V.

Bet you could easily run your system off a nice 750W PCP&C supply, sitting at 24A on the 3.3 and 30A on the 5V. Bigger if you're running the newest of the new Nvidia cards, as they like to be obscene with their power requirements.

Once you've got yourself above 600W or into crossfire/SLI setups, you're almost always doing it because of the 12V requirement for the video cards, not the 3.3/5v on the Mobo. Unless you're using that thing to generate your christmas lights as wells as overclocking everything you can possibly imagine, you should not have nearly enough extra crap plugged into it to *need* 30V on both rails.

Hell, even PCP&C's 1200W PS doesn't do 30A on the 3.3.

Just my .02

wat

Heh, Goobag is an asshole. He's always making fun of me for being fat in game, and I always tell him I'm *not* fat, (because I'm not!) and then he ends up joining a team or just ignoring me.

I read the Goobag post and laughed and said, "Fucking Goobag..."

--Locane

I'll try to get WINE working when I get home tonight, I had trouble getting it to do anything at all yesterday. I'm not the uber linux savvy tech head I want to be.

last time i checked steam didn't work with wine, since its now a msi installer and such. I think cedega might have support for it, though.

You just wine msiinst.exe to install msi, then you install.
Steam doesnt work at all with cedega and has font issues with wine.