Black list of power supplies and reputable brands of power supplies

>>21616310

I have now returned to the subject because I have the opportunity to buy a nice kit - however, it is done "under" a year circa 2003.

The specification is as follows

MSI P865PE-NEO2 motherboard
Pentium 4 3000 mhz
Graphic card Radeon 9800 pro
Ram 1.5 GB (I will probably extend it)
80gb hard drive and two DVD drives

Blacklisted power supply - Impet 300X1 300W "S"

What would you recommend replacing it with? Look for something "from the era" or put in some modern power supply? (At work I have some power supplies to recycle from servers, but I don't know if they will be suitable for a home PC)

From the used ones, after a short search according to the recommended manufacturers, I found for example this one: AMACROX AX440-60GLN 400W




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Separated from topic: Black power supply list and reputable power supply brands
by dt1 on 17 Jan 2026 17:00

A contemporary PSU can be installed with peace of mind.

The CPU and card are powered from 12V.

Whether this is a cool kit depends xD

If you want to use it, it's probably going to be under XP, and XP runs 1/2/3rd generation Intel (newer ones too) without a problem, so performance is a few/ten times better. The hardware is younger, so it's less likely to fail.

If you buy it for a penny for your collection or for resale, it's ok. Those Radons were dropping like flies already several years ago, so now, if you want to play games on it, it's not so good. Hardware aside, and to play on XP buy something for 200-300PLN but definitely newer - i5 3gen, 4GB ram and some GTX560/660.

I have taken the liberty of separating from the PSU blacklist topic, as the post is about choosing a PSU for your kit, not a discussion on a topic related to the legendary blacklist.

The CPU has a 12V power supply, all in all you can consider modern PSUs, but you should look to have ~100W available on the 3.3/5V lines.

350/400W minimum should be enough.

Kasek21 wrote:

These Radons were dropping like flies already several years ago, so now, if you want to play games on it, not so much. Hardware aside, and to play on XP buy something for 200-300zł but definitely newer - i5 3gen, 4GB ram and some GTX560/660.

I'll take my chances With the newer nVidia cards, some turn-of-the-century games had sore compatibility problems (e.g. those on infinity engine). I also have a PC with a Geforce 9600GT and with many older games I had problems running on it. I don't want to play around with patches and other workarounds, so I want it to be a computer which was a "powerhouse" at a time when I couldn't afford one