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Extra Value Micro ATX 300W PSU - 20+4pin, 1x SATA
- £12.26ex vat
- £14.41inc vat
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- manufacturer #: PSU300MICRO
- quickfind code: 125004
- 30 in stock for next day delivery.
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Small and quiet, but only 230v input.
os:
LinuxOnce upon a time I decided it'd be an ace idea to construct a computer inside a cardboard box. I already had a mATX motherboard, a celleron 700, 2x ethernet PCI cards, a hard disk, 128mb SDRAM and a temperature controlled CPU fan, so all I really needed was a power supply and I'd be able to start construction. This is the one I settled upon buying, it meets all the requirements I had:
It is smaller than a regular ATX PSU
It supplies more than enough power for my needs
It is quiet
So now I have a nice little computer inside a cardboard box with temperature controlled fans so I'm happy. (and moterboard controlled emergancy shutoffs so it doesn't burn)
The PSU includes the regular 20 pin ATX power connector, that 4 pin intel 12v connector thing, 4 molex connectors and a floppy disk drive connector. The device that I recieved appears to be 230v input only, so this particular PSU may not be ideal if you're thinking of traveling to other countries. My unit had a sticker that read "230V" where one would usually expect to see a voltage toggle switch. Upon pealing away the sticker I just found an empty hole...
Additionally, this unit does not have an on-off switch on the back. The fan on the unit is placed at the bottom, it seems to be an 80x80 fan and it is indeed quiet. Hope this information helps someone. I'd say this unit is good value for money, however I've only been using it for a few days so cannot comment on reliability!
Small and fairly quiet
os:
Windows METhe key feature of this particular Power Supply Unit is that it is the smaller size: the Micro-ATX form factor (rather than the much larger regular ATX type).
I purchased this PSU for an older computer running Windows ME. Space was at a premium inside the computer's case, but this PSU proved to be exactly the same size as the one I was replacing.
The previous reviewer is correct in saying it has only a 230 volt AC setting (the UK standard), and thus cannot be used with a 110 volt AC mains supply.
The 24 pin motherboard connector seperated easily into the 20-pin connector (which I needed) and a 4-pin connector (which I didn't need for my older motherboard), the latter unplugging easily. One point here though: the wires in the 4-pin connector were loose, and one of the four wires had in fact come free from the connector and was "at large". I had to seal this wire with electrical tape so that it didn't cause a random short circuit by scraping on the motherboard, as it stubbornly refused to go back into the 4-pin connector (which fortunately was not needed in my system).
This is a 300 watt PSU, and is coping okay with my computer, which is an older, low spec machine, consisting of an Pentium III (698MHz) cpu, two modern 80GB hard disks, and 128MB of RAM. It is still rare though to find a desktop computer than draws much more than 200 watts, even under demanding conditions.
This PSU is manufactured by ColorSit. The packaging is misleading, in that it claims to be "noiseless technology" and to be "silent", which is not true. The 80mm fan on the PSU is fairly quiet, but it is certainly not noiseless.
The packaging is also misleading in claiming that this is both a 110 volt and 230 volt unit, as there is no option for the user to switch it to 110 volts. It is factory set at 230 volts only.
In my opinion the packaging is also misleading in claiming the unit has a mean time between failure of 50,000 hours at 25 degrees centigrade, as the unit is unlikely to operate at such a low temperature; and in my opinion a rating at less than 40 degrees centigrade is probably unrealistic.
The unit was easy to install, but as it has only been running a few days I can't at present comment on its long term reliability.
Media Centre
i need a Micro ATX/mATX PSU for my media centre, i dont think 300w is going to be enough, deose anyone know were i can get a Micro ATX PSU that is 400/500w.
thanks to anyone who can help
