suggest a Cabinet and power supply

[krishnathelord]

guylots of things heard from u about cabinets and power supplys,

currently i m using a techcom basic(read suck) enclosure with as frontec 230 w power supply, the system suffers as it get hot, i m using pIV 2.4 prescott with 845gv chipset, my budget is 2K 8)

[geek_rohit]

Get a cabinet from any reputed brand, with a power supply of atleast 300W. Just ensure that there is a good scope of adding more fans for better cooling.

[devilhead_satish]

iBoxes are pretty good but i suggest you chuck th smps out and get an Antec 400W smps

[krishnathelord]

guys pls be more specific, such as which branded co. where can i get it in kolkata, what's the price range 8)

[darklord]

Get KPPL cabinets.They are pretty decent.
Also ask them whether they will replace the SMPS that comes with the Cabinet with a Powersafe one.If yes they go for Powersafe 400 Watt one.

That should be sufficient for your system.

Hmm you have a Prescott,best of luck....hehehhee

few days back 2 Prescotts fried at my friends uncle's client due to heat and insufficient PSU and overall bad assembling.

[akshayt]

powersafe 400wats comes for about 1800 from Kunhar and taxes extra,somewhere it may also be avilalbe for 1.5k .

vip cab+smps may be for 2k

[mohit]

for around 1400/- you can go for an Ibox Grantsdale Cabinet specially designed for the prescott's. i am using the same and it comes with a 350W SMPS. The build quality is decent but i doubt the SMPS rating. I suggest increase your budget and buy a Powersafe SMPS 400 watts and any cabinet for around 1000/- bucks. Total cost 2800/-

[shaunak]

i found the i box ones quite attractive.
they come with heat vents which r quite effective n dont cost the moon either.

ps: anyone knows the ibox web page i forgot

[pradeep_chauhan]

The selection of a box and smps is determined by what you are putting into it. Suppose its a normal run of the mill system any box with a powersafe 400W smps is recommended Just see the box has an option to pou in an exaust fan. Now if you are into heavy gamming / data manipulation or any other heavy work and will be needing multiple disks etc then I suggest you go in for what is called a server chassis This setup has hot swapable fans for the HDD and processors also the smps is more rugged designed for a 24x7 type of usage. The only drawback of this is the cost these setups are in the range of 5-10K without SMPS.

[krishnathelord]

Originally Posted by pradeep_chauhan

The selection of a box and smps is determined by what you are putting into it. Suppose its a normal run of the mill system any box with a powersafe 400W smps is recommended Just see the box has an option to pou in an exaust fan. Now if you are into heavy gamming / data manipulation or any other heavy work and will be needing multiple disks etc then I suggest you go in for what is called a server chassis This setup has hot swapable fans for the HDD and processors also the smps is more rugged designed for a 24x7 type of usage. The only drawback of this is the cost these setups are in the range of 5-10K without SMPS.

thank u but as i said i m not a great gamer i work on my pc for 2hrs. at a strech so accoring to u is i just buy 400w power safe and use it with 2 extra fans(100mm one at inlet and other at outlet) it will suffice

i m using 2.4 prescott