so here it is. the Cooler Master 550W Extreme Power Plus boast 550 watts true power, 2 6-pin PCI-E power connectors, 6 SATA power connectors, 2 4-pin cpu power connector, support for both 20-pin and 24-pin ATX mainboard power connectors, supports ATX 12V ver 2.3 and a very cool black colour. too bad they didnt put a blue LED in there...
n believe me, that thing is HEAVY
the 6-pin PCI-E power connector. the 2-pin thing there is for use with the 6-pin in case the graphics card needs a 8-pin power connector(ASUS Mars)
the ATX mainboard power connector. the 4-pin thing is for use with the big 20-pin connector in mainboards tat use 24-pin power connector.
the SATA power connectors(black) and the white molex PATA power connectors
the dual processor power connectors. feeds 12v to the processor... huge power there
ok, so i had to take out the old one n replace it with the new cooler master. so i tot i might wanna make a post outta this so tat everyone can benefit from this. ok, it started with tearing everything out of my cramped tower(a.k.a. casing). took out my P5Q SE PLUS, disconnected all the wires, took out the fans and the old psu. i left the drives there since i dont have to do anything to them.
the emptied out case... the black squares n rectangles on top is the fans
the old psu
my graphics card. ASUS EAH4350 Silent. clock speed 600MHz(overclocked it to 760MHz), memory speed 400MHz(oc to 535MHz)
see the 2 chips down there? those are the RAMs... there's another pair below the card. this card has 512MB
the bottom part
my P5Q SE PLUS. onboard in a Cooler Master Hyper 212 cpu heatsink fan(tat big big metal thing), and a pair of Kingston DDR2 800 2GB RAMs. the orange thing with the ASUS logo is the northbridge heatsink, the gleaming orange thing is the southbridge heatsink. the northbridge heatsink is always bigger than the southbridge's bsc it handles more important stuff.
i like the way asus writes things. n tat blue thing is the PCI-E 16x 2.0, the whites ones r 8x, the shortest is 4x
ok, done with the intros. ok, then i juz cleaned everything. u cant imagine how much dust accumulates in the thing... then in goes the psu.
it's in. no scratches. though the color didnt fit...
ok, everything in... n then i realised how cramped it became... the new psu got more cables than the old one, making it very messy and crowded with wires
ok, then plugged it in, powered it up, n wait for it to explode... which is wat im doing while typing this.
did i mention tat it glows really nice when the lights r off?
ok, so tats quite all for this time... lots of updates n scans to do. play AVA tmr