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Chieftec Value Series - Avoid?

Garlic
By Garlic
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I am finishing up a retro Pentium 4 build this weekend, but I accidentally bought a 24-pin ATX PSU for a motherboard that has a 20-pin connector- Rookie mistake!

 

Apart from requiring a 20-pin ATX connector I also need a floppy connector for this build, and these two things combined rules out all of the PSUs that my local PC shop has in store apart from one; A Chieftec Value Series unit. Does anyone here know if these PSUs are any good? None of the components in my build are valuable, but they are hard to replace and I would hate for a sketchy PSU to blow them up.

 

I did check the PSU tier list, but I did not find any relevant info on this specific unit.

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The 24 pin connector often splits into 20+4 pins, meaning you could likely plug in a lot of modern PSUs. You might have an issue if some parts require -5V power, as PSUs haven't had that for the last ~20 years

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