Yes, that would bee a neat solution. :) But the way I see it the system I have draws to little power for me to turn of the dummy load. :( ...Why on earth did I get that silly thought in my head then, you might ask. Well, before the resistor was mounted I used the speed of the fans to regulate the po...

Earlier today, I experimented with resistors on the 12V line to see how low the load could be before one of our afflicted PSUs would stop turning on. With 1A on the 12V line (12 ohm resistor), this particular PSU would always turn on. Dropping the load down to 0.46A still turned it on. Less than 0....

Hehe… I wouldn’t exactly call you “proven wrong”. I only tried it on a single MB. Other MBs may be different.

I would not recommend using the fan header. The idea is to add a load to the power supply because the motherboard is deliberately pausing before drawing any current from the +12V line . Most likely, that includes fan headers on the motherboard. I'm not so sure about the delay on the fan headers, at...

I chose the P150 in spite of all the reported problems and I am very pleased with it so far. :D But before I bought it I contacted the vendor and asked which version they delivered to make sure it was the revised version. Mostly because my MB is an ASUS A8N-VM CSM, and it had reported compatibility ...

Very nice!

Did you hide the floppy behind the 3,5" cover? If so, can you open the cover from the outside?

I stuck a beige floppy drive in the 3.5" bay al the way up front and that looked like crap. Tres unsexy!

I followed the advice given here on balancing load to give at least 1 amp on each 12V rail, and it worked fine. I use 2 cables plugged into the PSU thus, reading from left to right facing the PS from front: 1-no | 2-yes | 3-no | 4-yes | 5-no | 24&4 pin fixed cables. I took no special precautions ab...

My P150 case has arrived (A few days ago but I’ve been busy). The NeoHE430 actually powers my system on with the stock CPU cooler connected. :D But when I tried to disconnect the extremely noisy CPU fan before power on, the typical “split second power then no power” symptom occurred. So I guess I’m ...

Found this at the Overclockers online : "The modular panel is also labeled. The first 12V rail is on the 24-pin main power and 4-pin auxiliary power connectors. The other two 12V rails are on the modular panel we see in the above photo. The first two modular connections on the left are the third 12...

:oops: Missed those pictures, thanks! The bad part is, I actually looked around elsewhere to find a close-up picture.... I suppose 3.36W sounds about right. Plugging that into the fan calculator comes up with ~1000rpm at 5v, so I guess if the thing doesn't start/run below 5v it would explain why mk...

After several emails going back and forth to Antec technical support they told me something that most of you probably already know. The extra 4 pin +12V power connector for the mother board takes power from different +12V rail than the main 24 pin connector. :idea: I’ve read posts that in hindsight ...

[ Too bad about that Zalman fan. It's really inexpensive, but I guess trying to run it under 1000rpm would take it under 5v. What's the amp or watt rating on that fan anyway? I can't seem to find it anywhere. :? From Zalmans homepage: http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=31&code= On the...

For the PSU that MikeC tested, we found that if wouldn't power up even with a total of three IDE drives connected, which should have drawn well in excess of 1A. My hypothesis is that, for a crucial split second when the power supply is first turned on, hard drives do not draw any power from +12V. P...

Does anybody know the distance between the topmost motherboard mounting holes and the PSU or any part of the case that may cause restrictions on the size of the CPU cooler? I intend to use an Arctic cooling 64 freezer pro on a Micro ATX motherboard with the CPU bracket close to the edge of the board...

Dropping the load down to 0.46A still turned it on. Less than 0.4A and it would not turn on. At least for this particular high efficiency PSU, a 24 ohm resistor across any 12V output leads was enough to always allow it to boot. So it would not be completely unreasonable for a single SATA II barracu...

Tired of picky NeoHE? Perhaps we should design a nice little loading device that can be connected to a molex connector. It should turn off after the PC has power on. Won't the PS shut down or "act strange" if the load drops below the "1 amp" limmit a short while after startup? Adding a Zalman fanma...

I would hesitate to recommend you to try it. Thanks’... :) I'm actually really hesitant about it myself, but the case looks like it will be sooo nice and quiet. I probably won't be able to keep myself from buying one. ;) =notareal"] Anyhow it does not seem (at least with two NeoHE I have tried) to ...

I’m putting together a new computer and I think Antecs P150 case looks like the perfect case for it. Naturally I have reservations about the stability of the NeoHE 430, especially with the components I have at the moment: * Asus A8N-VM CSM (Integrated graphics) with an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ and 2x512 ...