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Re: Is A1200 power supply to weak for Viper 1240 or 1260?
« on: September 10, 2003, 04:59:16 PM »
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novaburst wrote:
I'm thinking about getting a Viper 1240 or 1260 for my A1200.
My A1200 is not a tower model, it is in original case.
Is the original power supply in the A1200 strong enough to handle the Viper 1240 or 1260?


Hi. I used Viper060 with the original PSU for a few days. I had some random lockups but it worked quite fine. Then I took the power connector from an A500 PSU and soldered the power lines needed to an old AT power. I also desoldered the rest of the cables from the PSU to make it prettier (at this point I should maybe tell you about the possible risks etcetc) ;-)

Well, anyways, everything works fine now and I can keep the original desktop case  :-)
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Re: Is A1200 power supply to weak for Viper 1240 or 1260?
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2003, 05:08:59 PM »
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fragment wrote:
I used Viper060 with the original PSU for a few days.


Oh yeah, the A1200 PSU outputs 3A on the 5V. All my A500 PSUs output only 2.5A. The 200W AT power outputs 20A on 5V.
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