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[Ash]

They usually cost about 30-60 in British money, depending on your wattage choice. I expect it'll be a lot cheaper over there, tho.

[Beowulf]

About how much do they cost?? Man im gonna need to get a job Didn't know i had to upgrade a bunch of stuff.

Depends on what you get. As your wattage goes up, price goes up. I bought an Antec 550W for $90 about six months ago and it works perfectly. I'd recommend that range if you get the same card I did, but you may need more depending on how high you push the video card.

Piece of advice. Do not just buy the cheapest one. They're cheap for a reason... chiefly because they don't fucking last very long. Spend more to get better quality. You can find quality for a good price though. It's not hard.

[Bart]

I recently bought a 390W cooler master PSU for our home server

[Spartan184]

I have another question: Well i have 2 black ram slots and 2 blue ones what are the blue ones for and does it matter what ram i put in them?

[Beowulf]

What kind of motherboard do you have? RAM slots don't generally come multi-colored. At least... as far as I know.

[Spartan184]

I'm not sure but if i remember right i remember asking someone that question along time ago that the blue ones are for DDR2 ram or something.

[Caspa]

I have another question: Well i have 2 black ram slots and 2 blue ones what are the blue ones for and does it matter what ram i put in them?

Check your motherboard manual. In my experience, the colors represent the order in which your motherboard reads the RAM. Let's assume that your black slots are 1-A and 1-B and the blue are 2-A and 2-B. The motherboard will look for modules in 1-A and 1-B first. If it doesn't find a module in 1-B it may just stop checking there, ignoring 2-A and 2-B. This is only a possibility though, coming from what my Asus motherboard does. Yours may respond to the RAM slots differently.

Also, for buying a PSU, I'd heavily recommend Corsair or PC Power & Cooling brand PSUs

EDIT: Here's a better PSU calculator

Edited by Caspa, 22 September 2009 - 03:11 PM.

[Spartan184]

Holy CRAP!! 1200W PSU. Anyways i can't find my motherboard manual, can't i just open it up and see which kind it is? Usually everything inside the comp has a sticker saying what type of brand it is and a bunch of other stuff.

[Beowulf]

No need.

[Puppeteer]

Where's the PSU displayed in the CPU-Z programme, Beowulf? I canny find it...

[Beowulf]

That you have to look at manually, but the OP was asking about motherboard, which you don't need to open your case to find out.

[Puppeteer]

Ah okay. I have a laptop and don't really want to go fiddling around in there. Oh well, thanks anyway.

[Beowulf]

I'm almost 100 percent that you can't change out PSUs on a laptop. I could be mistaken but I'm pretty sure. You don't want to open a laptop either. I should get pictures of the one we have at the house right now. It's taken apart and shit is everywhere. So many screws. x_x

[Puppeteer]

Tell me about it. We tried to take apart my old laptop. Jeez, it's got so many bells and whistles, screws and god-only-knows-whats it was unimaginable. All I ended up doing was making half of my keyboard not work!

[Spartan184]

SWEET!! I have DDR2 ram not DDR1. And my motherboard is :

Manufacturer : ASUSTek Computer INC.
Model: NARRA 1.01
Chipset: NVIDIA MCP61 Rev. A3
SouthBridge: NVIDIA MCP61
LPCIO: Fintek F8000

Bios:
Brand: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
Version: 5.02
Date: 03/06/2007

[Bart]

SWEET!! I have DDR2 ram not DDR1. And my motherboard is :

Everybody has DDR2. It's DDR3 that's flashy these days

[Caspa]

I have DDR3

[Spartan184]

Oh then I'm gonna buy 4 GB's of DDR3 ram. Then that sad smiley will turn into
Edit: So is my motherboard good?

Edited by Spartan184, 23 September 2009 - 11:08 PM.

[Bart]

Keep in mind that you can't use DDR3 is your motherboard doesn't support it.

[Caspa]

Hope you enjoy wasting money if you get DDR3 memory then. Your mobo isn't compatible.

This is your mobo, right?