Re: dq965co power supply and processor fan trade-in?

FGodbout wrote:
I'm up to finish building my PC, though since it's my first I lack confidence. There seems to lack any database at vendors' to choose a
power supply recommended for a specific motherboard.

Mine is Intel BTX DQ965COEKR, and having consulted its documents as far I felt competent to understand them, the ATX 12v required seems in simple general term of wattage about 610W. cf. http://www.pcpower.com/products/power_supplies/dual_cpu_selector/

Oh wow. That's the worst PSU selector app I've ever seen :-)

Required PSU wattage actually has very little to do with the
motherboard. The key components are the CPU, video cards and HDs. Note
that even a high-end system will generally draw less than 300W at load,
so a quality 350-400W unit is usually plenty.

As that board doesn't appear to support quad cores and definitely
doesn't support multiple video cards, you're not likely to run into PSU
issues.


Lastly, as in the subject header, since my processor came boxed with
an ATX fan, should I expect here in Quebec retailers to trade it in
fairly against a BTX for me?

Don't ATX coolers fit in BTX systems, at least if you remove the
ducting? If it fits and works (even suboptimally), you're not going to
get any joy out of the trading laws. A proper BTX cooler would be considered an optional extra.


--
John Jordan
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