Comments on: How-To: Buy A Computer Case http://www.pcmech.com/article/how-to-buy-a-computer-case/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:43:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: How To: Buy a Fan Controller | PCMech http://www.pcmech.com/article/how-to-buy-a-computer-case/comment-page-1/#comment-14133 How To: Buy a Fan Controller | PCMech Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:06:24 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=7703#comment-14133 [...] all you really need to do is research particular models and read reviews. Like Rich showed in his “How to Buy a Computer Case” video, go to Newegg if for nothing else than to read the [...] [...] all you really need to do is research particular models and read reviews. Like Rich showed in his “How to Buy a Computer Case” video, go to Newegg if for nothing else than to read the [...]

]]> By: Sharron (kkomp) http://www.pcmech.com/article/how-to-buy-a-computer-case/comment-page-1/#comment-13990 Sharron (kkomp) Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:50:35 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=7703#comment-13990 I was thinking of what hitchface commented on before I read his comment. Computer Shopper magazine in the UK tested a cheapo 500Watt PSU on full load and it literally blew up. Cheap cases that come with a cheap PSU are never a good idea; unless the PSU is rated at 500Watta and you know you're only going to draw 250 Watts from it: Even then there's the issue of stability. A cheap PSU will have lousy stabilisation and voltages on the outputs may vary by as much as 20% on load in a worst-case scenario - You'll only admire the result of that if you like blue screens, GPU crashes, and boot-failures. If you live in the UK a similar type of more local site is ebuyer.co.uk: You can shop there in almost exactly the same way. Watch out for imitations. (e.g. Open Office. :P ) I was thinking of what hitchface commented on before I read his comment. Computer Shopper magazine in the UK tested a cheapo 500Watt PSU on full load and it literally blew up. Cheap cases that come with a cheap PSU are never a good idea; unless the PSU is rated at 500Watta and you know you’re only going to draw 250 Watts from it: Even then there’s the issue of stability. A cheap PSU will have lousy stabilisation and voltages on the outputs may vary by as much as 20% on load in a worst-case scenario – You’ll only admire the result of that if you like blue screens, GPU crashes, and boot-failures.

If you live in the UK a similar type of more local site is ebuyer.co.uk: You can shop there in almost exactly the same way.

Watch out for imitations. (e.g. Open Office. :P )

]]> By: hitchface http://www.pcmech.com/article/how-to-buy-a-computer-case/comment-page-1/#comment-13961 hitchface Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:01:27 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=7703#comment-13961 Nice video Rich. Maybe make mention that they should also do some research into the type of power supply included. You don't want to wind up with a bad one just because it comes with the case. Nice video Rich. Maybe make mention that they should also do some research into the type of power supply included. You don’t want to wind up with a bad one just because it comes with the case.

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