[OT] Tyan S2895 K8WE and EPV12V/SSI 3.51 power supply

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 23:31 -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> Would this baby work for you? I don't know when it will be available. If 
> I need a power supply that has to work right and not fail, then I shell 
> out the dough for PC Power & Cooling supplies.
> http://www.pcpowercooling.com/about/index_whatnew.htm

Which product?  Most of those are ATX, not EPS12V/SSI.

I was already looking at the 510AG (note the "AG") here: 
http://www.pcpowercooling.com/products/power_supplies/maxperformance/turbocools/index_hp_atx-2.htm

Now that had dual-12V, and was $199, comparable in price to the quad-12V
of the Enermax 660/550W units, but not features.

But the last one on that page is a quad-12V 850W (is that was you meant?
you passed the original frame, not the 850W link ;-):  
http://www.pcpowercooling.com/about/whatnew_850_ETX.htm  

I can only imagine this thing is $350+ -- especially seeing *2* 6-pin WS
connectors (wow!).  The Tyan S2895 only has a connector for 1.

> I think Antec is second best for consumer machines and will use an
> Antec supply if I need decent quality at an acceptable price point.

It varies.  I have an Antec TruePower ATX 1.x 550W in my Athlon MP
system.  And I like it, especially since the S2460/2466 had such issues
due to the fact that way too much current was coming from the stock 20-
pin ATX connector.

But Enermax has seemingly had more options, especially on EPS12V.  Antec
doesn't offer an EPS12V with the 24+8+6WS option -- and, again, the Tyan
page notes that specifically:
http://tyan.com/l_german/support/html/r_s2885.html

I even looked it up:  
http://www.antec.com/specs/true550EPS12V_spe.html  

Yet another 6-pin "AUX", not a 6-pin "Workstation" connector.


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