So today I was notified that the Mushkin ram has shipped, which is great. Should be expecting a number of parts in the mail over the next week including another Antec HGC-620W power supply, a couple of I/O shields for the two Core 2 Duo builds, the Mushkin ram, and the motherboard and ram for the Reiter case.
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The Antec PSU is a very good buy for the price, usually is on sale at NCIX and Newegg.ca for between 70-90 dollars (+tax and shipping). It's nearly fully modular aside from the 24pin and the 8pin connectors (which you need both of anyway). Also the finish is pretty nice and it's a single rail PSU (which I'm all about). In my opinion, multi-rail PSU's are a bit of a headache because the CPU ends up being on one and then leaves the other rails to be desired by the gpu and other accessories which can sometimes overflow the rails (especially in a SLI or Crossfire environment). Not too bad on energy efficiency neither for a 80+ Bronze PSU. And in it's price range, for having all Japanese capacitors (which are more reliable and tend to last longer), it's one of my top picks indefinitely besides a XFX PSU. Some other brands tout that they have Japanese capacitors, but in a number of cases it just ends up being the main capacitor that is Japanese and the others are slightly lower grade. That being said, there are brands that even though they don't specify Japanese capacitors they are still of good design, however only are worth picking up if can get it cheaper than an Antec HGC or a XFX.
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