Reliability of a standard PC power supply in a server envirornment

[c_hegge]

Re: Reliability of a standard PC power supply in a server envirornment

Believe it or not, I've never seen a newton with Japanse caps before. All the ones I've seen had LTEC and CapXon.

[ncovert]

Re: Reliability of a standard PC power supply in a server envirornment

Japanese caps would probably make it okay, as long as the guts are half decent. Make sure it's a relatively efficient unit though and not sub 70%, or you'll be wasting $$$ on electricity costs that you tried to save with the PSU.

I would take your advice on efficiency, but I don't worry to much since I don't pay the electric bill :p And the guts are decent; it's a Newton (basically Delta with japanese caps)

[Rulycat]

Re: Reliability of a standard PC power supply in a server envirornment

Japanese caps would probably make it okay, as long as the guts are half decent. Make sure it's a relatively efficient unit though and not sub 70%, or you'll be wasting $$$ on electricity costs that you tried to save with the PSU.

[ncovert]

I'm building a cheap web server and was wondering about how reliable would a standard PC power supply be when being turned on 24/7. The power supply I am using is a 200W Newton unit (I'm cheap, it's gonna be a P3 based server, 200W will be plenty.) If I remember right, it had japansese caps and none were bloated.