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Post #12 by CJ_Miller
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateWed, 23 Jun 2010 - 11:07
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/my-ultimate-mdd-project.20502/
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I just built a new machine and used a CORSAIR CMPSU-450VX 450W ATX12V it has amazing reviews and runs at a pretty cool temp in the case I used. I guess just putting my vote towards a corsair PSU and good luck on your project I really can't wait to see it completed. I'm also going to guess that your os9 software doesn't run well under classic or your accessories do not work under classic?
Thanks for the tip on the Corsair. The wife just bought a laptop recently and (supposedly) gave her tower back to me, so I am testing with whatever Thermaltake 500 Watt is in there. I will need a new PSU though because she hardly remembers anything. Just yesterday she accused my of stealing her old Dell PII workstation, which she explicitly offered to me about five years ago... Sure enough she will want this tower back when the wind changes direction.

I am holding off on my ATX>MDD PSU mod, going to use an ATX extender cable in case I want to change it out later. I modified my Stealth serial port, and am looking into actually mounting my "mirrored drive doors" in the case, so it stays true to its name.

I never bothered with the Classic Environment. It is probably useless for hardware-level access such as OMS and my video input. I can't imagine that the extra emulation layer would do anything good for the timing of my multimedia projects! Seriously, think of emulators as good for nostalgia, or a last resort for productive systems. Anyway, I have five other Macs in this room now which can run pre-X MacOS, so why not just run it native? Classic might work for editing files, but not for live computer music/video.

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