Mike said:
> If you're burning out a 300W P/S with just a few
> components, I'd have to
> think that at least one piece of your hardware has a fault
> in it.  I could
> see this happening if you were running a fast Athlon
> (those things
> apparently take over 70 Watts of power), but not much
> else..  I think I'd
> just recommend getting a better power supply.  Also, do
> you have enough
> ventilation?  Maybe something overheated..

Brian says:
I may have a heat problem.  The reason I'm looking at the
dual P/S option is because I want to run so much more.. BIG
fans, lots of hard drives, tape drive, CD writer, DVD, and
of
course an Athlon with some hefty components.  I currently
have 2 fans but I usually run with one side off the case.  I
have a couple nice 5" fans that are begging to be set up as
a
wind tunnel kind of thing but I need more power to do that.