{"id":70,"date":"2004-03-10T15:21:37","date_gmt":"2004-03-10T19:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=70"},"modified":"2004-03-10T15:21:37","modified_gmt":"2004-03-10T19:21:37","slug":"endorsement-and-a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Endorsement. And a question."},"content":{"rendered":"

Chaintech<\/a> provides with their ZNF3-150 motherboards all kinds of goodies: a 5.25 card reader with several ports, nicely bound IDE cables, a handy little screwdriver set reminiscent of first generation mechanical pencils, etc. If you’re going up to Socket 754\/Athlon 64 3400+, I highly recommend them based thus far solely on the packaging, add-ons, and low pricetag.<\/p>\n

Does anyone (who might read this) know if the Athlon 3400+ running with 1GB (2 DIMMs) of PC-3200 DDR memory, SATA\/150 hard drive and a Chaintech GeForceFX 5600XT 256MB DDR 8X AGP video card will need more than a 400W power supply? Tom’s Hardware Guide<\/a> shows it should be a decent fit<\/a>, but the memory and graphics card I’m using are a bit more power-hungry, I think. I don’t want my father’s new speed machine to have a lack of power. He won’t like that at all; his Tim Allen sensors will blink and wail.<\/p>\n

I’m using the 400SL PS from Antec<\/a>, which according to their test gives out max power at 380W. I assume I can trust an Antec PS to shutdown before frying my components, yes?<\/p>\n

Basically, my research turned up very little (that I truly understood,) and I’m too lazy to do any more.<\/p>\n

I stare at truer geeks in awe and envy, that in their presence I am so unadvanced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chaintech provides with their ZNF3-150 motherboards all kinds of goodies: a 5.25 card reader with several ports, nicely bound IDE cables, a handy little screwdriver set reminiscent of first generation mechanical pencils, etc. If you’re going up to Socket 754\/Athlon 64 3400+, I highly recommend them based thus far solely on the packaging, add-ons, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-18","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":141,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=141","url_meta":{"origin":70,"position":0},"title":"Great Scott!","date":"6\/9\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"The world's first real supervillain* explodes onto the scene. 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