Using old Seasonic and Seventeam 300W PSU for today modern PC?

[Wizard]

Re: Using old Seasonic and Seventeam 300W PSU for today modern PC?

3 of my PCs use 380W, one P4 2.8C with decent graphics card, one is E5200 with HD3650 2GB, 2x HDs and blah blah. third is E2200 system with unknown video card (don't bothered to remember but it is so stable).

BTW, both 380W units were recapped last year.

Cheers, Wizard

[duictronic]

Re: Using old Seasonic and Seventeam 300W PSU for today modern PC?

I opened my Enlight 300W box yesterday. It's surprising me cause inside the box is just like another abal2 (bad) PSU with better caps on it. I think this PSU is no more than 200 Watt. The primary caps is only 330 uf/200v Taepo. The secondary 12V filter is only 1000 uf/16v. Most of the caps on it is Taepo and G luxon. So, I decide not to recap this Enlight and I will recap my 4 years old FSP 350W if I can get good caps for it.


(It full of dust before. Now its clean after i wash it with detergent)

[linuxguru]

Re: Using old Seasonic and Seventeam 300W PSU for today modern PC?

Yup, it looks like a generic 65W-130W gutless wonder.

[momaka]

Re: Using old Seasonic and Seventeam 300W PSU for today modern PC?

I second linuxguru's rating. I'm not even sure if a Pentium II will run on this (maybe just barely).
Probably better to keep if for spare parts (chokes, PI coils, bridge rectifier, and schottky rectifiers). But the truth be told, there isn't much besides that really .