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Looking for a PSU for a Pentium 4 build

WhitetailAni

The last planning step for P4HT, my retro Pentium 4 XP gaming rig build, is a PSU.

I do have a Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1000W, but it doesn't have a few things that I need. PC specs are:

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Pentium 4 HT 3.4 GHz Prescott (4-pin CPU)

ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe (20-pin ATX)

BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra OC (2x Molex)
Ageia PhysX PCI PPU (1x Molex)

Samsung 860 EVO 250GB (1x SATA)
WD Blue 1TB (1x SATA)

3x SATA optical drives (3x SATA)

1x IDE optical drive (1x Molex)

Definite requirements:
1. 4x Molex minimum

2. 6x SATA minimum

3. Wallet-friendly

Possible requirements:

1. -5V rail

I'm not exactly sure if I need the -5V rail as I can't figure out if serial ports need -5V or not, so any advice there is helpful too. I'm hoping to keep this at $50 or so, but if I need to go a bit over ($65 max) that's fine. I'm not making a P4 SFX system - ATX form factor only.

If you need any more info please ask and I'll do my best to provide!

 

elephants

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the seta and molex thing can be done with a  sata power splitter and a seta to molex splitter

I could use some help with this!

please, pm me if you would like to contribute to my gpu bios database (includes overclocking bios, stock bios, and upgrades to gpus via modding)

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My beautiful, but not that powerful, main PC:

prior build:

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Honestly as much as the PSU dinguses here would scream about it being a housefire, a higher wattage CXM unit would probably do just fine. Pretty sure the 550 and up have 4 molex/2 berg and 6 SATA. I never used the serial ports on my P3TDDE so I can't comment if that part works, though I have to imagine it'd work fine.

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9 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

Honestly as much as the PSU dinguses here would scream about it being a housefire, a higher wattage CXM unit would probably do just fine. Pretty sure the 550 and up have 4 molex/2 berg and 6 SATA. I never used the serial ports on my P3TDDE so I can't comment if that part works, though I have to imagine it'd work fine.

15 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

the seta and molex thing can be done with a  sata power splitter and a seta to molex splitter

Do you think it'd be worth trying to track down another 2x Molex cable for my Silent Pro Gold or should I ditch that 11-year-old unit in favor of a newer one? That was my original plan but it's quite hard to find cables for it, and 2 more Molex connectors is all I need. It's got 6x SATA power.

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2 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

Do you think it'd be worth trying to track down another 2x Molex cable for my Silent Pro Gold or should I ditch that 11-year-old unit in favor of a newer one? That was my original plan but it's quite hard to find cables for it, and 2 more Molex connectors is all I need. It's got 6x SATA power.

Might as well. Good ol' ModDIY has one for 10 bucks which is a lot for a cable but still a lot less than a whole new PSU.

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VAULT - File Server

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Intel Core i5 11400 w/ Shadow Rock LP, 2x16GB SP GAMING 3200MHz CL16, ASUS PRIME Z590-A, 2x LSI 9211-8i, Fractal Define 7, 256GB Team MP33, 3x 6TB WD Red Pro (9TB partition for general storage + 2TB partition for dumping ground), 4x 8TB WD White Label/Red (Plex) (all 3 arrays in their respective Windows Parity storage spaces), Corsair RM750x, Windows 11 Education

Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C

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Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz, 4x8GB G.SKILL Ares 1800MHz CL10, ASUS Z170M-E D3, 128GB Team MP33, 1TB Seagate Barracuda, 320GB Samsung Spinpoint (for video capture), MSI GTX 970 100ME, EVGA 650G1, Windows 10 Pro

OptiPlex 7040M

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Intel Core i7 6700, 2x16GB Mushkin Redline (stuck at 2133MHz CL13), 240GB Corsair MP510, 130w Dell power brick, Windows 10 Pro

Mac Mini (Late 2020)

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Apple M1, 8GB RAM, 256GB, macOS Sonoma

Consoles: Softmodded 1.4 Xbox w/ 500GB HDD, Xbox 360 Elite 120GB Falcon, XB1X w/2TB MX500, Xbox Series X, PS1 1001, PS2 Slim 70000 w/ FreeMcBoot, PS4 Pro 7015B 1TB (retired), PS5 Digital, Nintendo Switch OLED, Nintendo Wii RVL-001 (black)

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