manuleka 0 Report post Posted January 15, 2013 http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ of my friends gave me a Lenovo ThinkCentre PC which has the following specNow i notice that the mainboard has PCI 16x slot so i decided to throw in an old card 9800XT 512MB PCI-e Now the problem is the PSU of these Small Form Factor PCs don't have extra Molex Connectors so my only option is to use a standard PSUWould using a standard PSU be ok with these custom/specific made mainboards? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted January 29, 2013 The original PSU is very low powered which suggests this is a workstation machine.Changing the PSU would not be a problem, there's nothing hardware/software wise that I know of that would tie a PSU to a specific computer. I always find these are easily interchangeable.So would you be putting the motherboard in another case so that the standard PSU would fit? This would also depend if the screw holes for that motherboard fit the other case and also the backing fits the case.If changing the case is not an option, then how are you going to squeeze the new PSU in, maybe there's enough room for it? Or if not that important, maybe kiwi ingenuity... which I've done numerous times on some of my computers. Just don't be quick to shift them around, something may fall out.If you just need a few more additional molex connectors, then splitting them may help, but because it's not a very powerful PSU, it may or may not have enough 'uumph' in it to run, or to run for the expected lifetime you may use that computer for.Cheers,MC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manuleka 0 Report post Posted January 29, 2013 (edited) thats the idea... shifting the internals from the SFM Lenovo to a bigger case... I have tried hooking it up to a standard ATX PSU and somehow the PSU stuffed up the board because it didn't seem to boot after that... (well there was no graphics output signal to the monitor)... Edited January 29, 2013 by manuleka (see edit history) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
