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Loedown · 23 February 2010, 00:05

I've had no issue with using AT style power supplies, but then again, I only use new supplies and decent branded ones, they don't cost much more and you can be assured that if the thing goes tits up, you're more likely not to blow your Amiga hardware to kingdom come. Ask me the story about my sister's PC and the amazing melting RAM chips.

Don't ask, I'll write it anyway, she left her PC on overnight and came out in the morning to find a very dead PC, so I got it and opened it up, it had blown every single card in the machine, literally blown chunks out of the chips. The RAM chips had gotten so hot that they'd melted their own solder and moved on the simms. I could only save two things from the whole system, the DVD laser and the CPU, everything else was fried. So don't use cheap power supplies.

23 February 2010, 00:05	#8
Loedown Precious & fragile things Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Victoria, Australia Posts: 1,946	I've had no issue with using AT style power supplies, but then again, I only use new supplies and decent branded ones, they don't cost much more and you can be assured that if the thing goes tits up, you're more likely not to blow your Amiga hardware to kingdom come. Ask me the story about my sister's PC and the amazing melting RAM chips. Don't ask, I'll write it anyway, she left her PC on overnight and came out in the morning to find a very dead PC, so I got it and opened it up, it had blown every single card in the machine, literally blown chunks out of the chips. The RAM chips had gotten so hot that they'd melted their own solder and moved on the simms. I could only save two things from the whole system, the DVD laser and the CPU, everything else was fried. So don't use cheap power supplies.