Darren New wrote:

> When did it get common to tack a "U" on the end of "Power Supply"? 
> Nobody calls it a Power Supply Unit. :-)

Er... I do?

I've always seen it referred to as PSU. (When it's referred to by a 
specific term, at any rate. Typically it's something that just comes 
with the case...)

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:

 > THIS mutha... is... a solid metal brick, 265 mm by 110 mm by 40 mm.

Hahahahaha!

Wanna take a guess what the distance between the motherboard's 
PCI-Express sockets and the motherboard's SATA sockets is?

Hint: It isn't 110 mm.

So... unless I don't connect any SATA devices, it is *actually 
impossible* to fit this particular graphics card. Weeeeee!! :-D

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > more powerful PSUs. 

> When did it get common to tack a "U" on the end of "Power Supply"? Nobody 
> calls it a Power Supply Unit. :-)

  "PSU" is more unambiguous than "PS".

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I'm not making this stuff up!!

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
> 
>> When did it get common to tack a "U" on the end of "Power Supply"? 
>> Nobody calls it a Power Supply Unit. :-)
> 
> Er... I do?

Weird. Maybe it's a European thing or something. It's just "power supply" 
every time I've heard it out loud.

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I'm not making this stuff up!!

Mofo! That's a damn big card.

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>> I'm not making this stuff up!!
> 
> Mofo! That's a damn big card.

Yes. It is. It's BIGGER THAN THE DISTANCE BETWEEN MY PCI SOCKET AND MY 
SATA SOCKETS. 8-}

[You might wanna stand a little further away from me right now...]

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> [You might wanna stand a little further away from me right now...]

We sell more than everyone else put together! How do we do it? Volume! Our 
ads are louder than anyone else's!

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Wanna take a guess what the distance between the motherboard's
> PCI-Express sockets and the motherboard's SATA sockets is?
>
> Hint: It isn't 110 mm.
>
> So... unless I don't connect any SATA devices, it is *actually
> impossible* to fit this particular graphics card. Weeeeee!! :-D

ROFL!

So until now, you *definitely* need a new power plant, and as it seems a new
mainboard (or an older hard drive) for this Big Bad Brick of Pure Pixel Power,
huh?

What's next? Drivers requiring a new OS, output connector incompatible with your
old display, and card too heavy to be supported by the case? ;)

Gee, maybe you should've bought a new computer right away, after all :P


This reminds me, I actually once resorted to (mini-) angle grinder work to
upgrade the graphics of some computer... the corner of a PCI expansion slot had
to make way =B)

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I'm not making this stuff up!!

How many horsepower in there?  They must be stallions! :D

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