Help please urgent

[tasape]

my casecom atx350 psu has gone pop!

i cannot find another 350 unit only 400 and 500 etc

can i put one of these units in or is it a no no

it has a 20 pin connector going to the mother board

and connectors to disc and floppy (yes Floppy) drives

i need to get asap so pc world is my best bet and advice on which on please

 

thanks

[Match]

Basically the important thing about PSU's is making sure you have more than enough power, and they fit your motherboard.

if you had a 350 watt PSU you can replace it with any PSU that has 350 watt's or more :)

 

if your motherboard has a 20 pin connector you will need to make sure your new PSU has a 20 Pin plug

 

most modern motherboards and PSU's use a 24 or a 20+4 connector.

 

if you get a 20+4 connector you can split the extra 4 pins off and just fold them out the way and then just plug the remaining 20 pin connector into the mother board ;)

[Starbuck]

My system originally came with a 250w PSU,

i removed this and added a 450w PSU.

 

Like Match says, as long as the connectors fit (and most will) it will cause no harm at all.

 

It's like taking a 1.0l car engine out and adding a 2.0l one.

The extra power is there if you need it, but if you don't need it .... it won't work overtime.

[Dalo Harkin]

Its not just the main 20/24 pin though, you also need to check wether it needs a 4 pin ATX cable or the 8 pin ATX (these are 'normally' located NEAR the CPU)

 

http://img.tomshardware.com/us/2004/05/14/two_xeon_cpus_are_better_than_one_intel_p4_extreme_platform/power_p8.jpg