I got myself some generic PSU. Got it for like 5 bucks after rebate lol. It's rated at 425W. I'm a bit nervous because I currently have about 5 case fans, raptor hard drive, dvd burner and p4 overclocked.

My question is how do I know that my power supply will be the cause of my system reboots (overclock or not) taking that it did happen?

SOrry if this thread kinda relates more to O/C.

monitor . using mbm 5 or someitng

sorry for my ignorance. is mbm 5 the program name...?

nah thats not ignorance...

yes it is a program name
theres a link to it in th DL section of occ main page


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Oh! yea! That remints me! I recently got a dead Enermax 300 watt PSU from a friend beacause he was moveing and wasint sure if his mobo or psu were dead so he gave me the PSU, so I tested it and of course it didint work but out of boredrom I opened it and low and behold found a blown fuse... not only a blown fuse but a chart by the mount that said that if you put a 250 volt 15 amp fuse in there instad it would be 550 watts so I ran down to ace hardware bought a fuse mounter for the 1 1/2 in fuses ()the one in the PSU was a little over half a inch) and got a fast acting fuse @ 250 v 15A and blew the fuse but the guy at radio shack said that would probaly hapen and to try a fast acting first so now I'm goeing to run down to radioshack and get a delayed acting.... anyway the reason for the long story is after I get the PSU running agian is there a way to test how many watts it is running at and how close to 550 watts it realy is?

Im sure there is but im just going to give you a word of caution...
I don't know how you would test that, BUT, if you have to physically test anything by opening it up and fiddleing around, you should be using extra caution because if your PSU blew a 15A fuse, then you could be killed very easily with that amount of current...

I believe it only takes .2-.3 amps to leave burn marks, and .5amps WILL kill you!
(Correct me if im wrong, but im almost positive thats all it takes)

*Note i said DECIMAL 2 - DECIMAL 3...not 2 - 3 amps...and only DECIMAL 5 to kill you

Gah! holly cow! thanks for the warning! for some reason I dont want to finish this mod all of a sudden... I'll keep you posted... (and I'm going to wear 3 layers of rubber gloves... serious...)

lol Rubber gloves will not work... I help my dad work on phone lines and when someone calls you, your phone gets 90 volts and .1xxxx amps. I used a rubber glove and i still felt the shock and it did leave a small red spot. Get some gloves that electricians use and get like 2 of them... 1 amp is enough to seriously hurt an elephant and sometimes kill it... If i were you... i wouldnt even touch it.

The level of amperage that is lethal depends on the voltage.

A typical 9 volt battery puts out at least 500mA (.5 amp). They're not too dangerous. You can lick them, and all they'll do is sting your tongue. It won't burst into flames.

1 amp can kill an elephant? At what voltage, 480 VAC?

I was wondering the same thing.