Better......?
system7 said:
Because, like captaincranky, my gut feeling and observation is the 300W is better. The following is an Intel D865GVHZ with, originally, a 300W supply:
That's probably an overuse of the term. I myself would dial that down to "less spiteful" (than the 250s).
This expands my own question about "massive surge supressors". If lightning is capable of jumping through air at least a quarter mile or so, then how exactly is a ten dollar surge suppressor going to stop it?
As to the Emachines PSU that had been "zapping my niece", <(I think I read that in this thread, but I'll be damned if I can find it), really, you were given fair warning of impending failure.
As to the suggestion that we could argue ad infinitum which part fails first, yes we could, as well as which came first the chicken or the egg. But this is what I've been saying, that we should analyze each failure on a case by case basis.
This thread started on a slightly histrionic but very prudent note , that you should probably yank the stock PSU out of any Emachine computer and put in a good one as a matter of course, not wait until it becomes a necessity. After all, usually there was a substantial saving at the onset of your ownership. If it costs another 50 bucks to make your experience more pleasant, it's more than well worth it. After all, a PSU with good protection might stand a better chance of surviving a motherboard failure, but that's just me guessing.
Still I cast my vote for an extra hard drive in anything, in spite of the fact the system drives can be up to 500 GB. Bigger drives mean bigger disasters. It's sort of like the argument about jumbo jets, they don't crash that often, but oh boy, when they do.