9 Jul
2009
9 Jul
'09
7 p.m.
On 9 Jul 2009 at 20:24, Jim Leonard wrote:
I know this is going to sound sacreligious, but can
any 1990s-era
power supply (ie. 200w) be used too? I ask because I have two 5150s
without working power supplies and figured I could dummy up one or
both of them as testing/workhorse machines.
By and large, yes, for the non-ATX supplies. To keep the "authentic"
look you may want to repackage the innards in the old PSU box. The
PCB of the newer supply will almostl inevitably be smaller. The 80's
PSUs generally had huge toroids and heatsinks; by the mid 90's,
they'd figured out how to make 'em cheap.
--Chuck