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How many fans and what kind of a power supply should a computer have?
I am thinking a computer has a minimum of 2 fans, the case fan and the CPU fan/heatsink but I'm wondering if I should get fans for the hard drive and RAM, or other fans as well? Please note that I live in a very warm apartment w/o air conditioning. Any recommended brands of fans for CPU and the rest of the computer?
As for the power supply, how do I figure out what kind to get? Is it better to err on the side of high wattage, or do I risk damaging my computer?
I am getting an ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe Socket AM2 motherboard and an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 or 4200 CPU for the record. It seems to be a bit harder to find water cooling systems or fans for the AM2 socket.
it depends what you use the computer for and what kind of components you have. I would reccomend at least 400 watt as a mininum. If you have a high-performance processor, multiple hard drives, video cards, lots of PCI cards, lots ofRAM etc. you should get at least 500watts. As for cooling, there are hard drive cooling enclosures available for as low as 20$, RAM heat spreaders can cool RAM, or you could consider liquid-cooling your system if the PC gets really hot
Some recommended fan names are:
Cooler Master
Zalman
Aerocool
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