Gateway Power Supply

Posted on Feb 18, 2010 04:01 pm
Runicen
Duke of Stewed Prunes
Member Since: Jun 01, 2007

Maybe an odd question and apologies in advance if this is in the wrong place...

I'm running a Gateway GT5658E. I've been looking to upgrade some of its innards, which would require that I also upgrade its modest 300 Watt power supply.

It's been a long while since I've looked into something like this (my last computer was a custom build I threw together myself), but I seem to recall that pre-built systems like those from Dell and Gateway had proprietary form factors in a lot of their hardware, power supplies included.

I found nothing through Gateway that indicated that a higher output power supply was available for this system, so I'm wondering if it's now opened up, so to speak. Can I use a standard-issue power supply to upgrade my system or will I just be trying to jam the square peg into the round hole... again, so to speak? ;-)

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