Building a computer.

[Steamer]

Steamer, if the PSU is made well it does not matter if its a single rail or 6. It will provide power to your parts without problems.

While true, it also waste's power overtime and is not as efficient or reliable. In the long run you may actually lose money.

On a single rail system you have power being pulled from that rail alone and all power needed is being used.

On a multi rail system all the power being allocated is not used. IE: 36 amps to CPU on rail 1 and 2 but CPU is only calling for 22 amps, the left over amps can not be used by the GPU, it must be pulled off another rail. Such a dirty system.

A well made single rail design will outperform any multi rail design.

Because of today's safety standards (20 amps per wire), most multi rail PSU's are actually single rail units with split 12v current limit circuitry.

If you do go with a (fake) multi rail system, make sure it has Active PFC and EVERY "rail" is OCP protected (current limit protection [over-current] ).

If you go single rail, make sure it is a quality piece.

Either way you ARE buying a single rail system. If your buy has more than one rail you best make sure it has OCP to each or you just bought a pile of junk.

[Andrew_Pavlik]

Okay here is the list that I have came up with. I am 'selling' my comp to my father for him to use at our business and since its not really going to be used for anything special I picked a cheap case for it to go in(switch everything out of mine) and my dad for some odd reason wants a 32bit system on it so I am going to buy 4gb of ram and keep the 8 I have. And if your curious my ram - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231151 and case - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?
Item=N82E16811129021

Comp -
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131707

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130600

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817139005

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115076

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822152185

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827118039

Sounds good?

[StarsMine]

Ram and board are incompatable :/ sorry bud, See if you can sell it and get some DDR3 ram.

DDR2 is for am2 and socket 775. ddr3 is for anything recent, and you cant mix and match those ram types

[Andrew_Pavlik]

Oh frak, didn't even see that, thanks!

*edit - buy these then. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231308

[acolyte_to_jippity]

Oh frak, didn't even see that, thanks!

<3 bsg

[ZERO]

Oh frak, didn't even see that, thanks!

*edit - buy these then. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231308

The ram I posted before: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...3C9D3B1K2%2f8G

Costs less money and is faster and I can say that if you ever have a problem with it Kingston has the best RMA service of any company I have ever dealt with. Also I have only had 1 bad stick in 10 years and 20+ sticks.

Also what do you need a disk drive for and do you not have any in an old computer you could use?

[Andrew_Pavlik]

I need a disk drive because for my work I always make copies of photos for certain jobs that we store in a safe just in case -something- happens to the computers.

And as for the old computer thing, I personally don't but I could probably take one out of one we have at work.