Power Supply?..

Okay I had a problem with my HP a6300f not booting and thanks to this site I found out it was my motherboard. I had it replaced and now I am up and running. Thanks everyone. But I have another question, I am currently stationed in Germany and I am running my computer off of a transformer step down. It turns the 220V to 110-120v. My computer is setup at 115v, do you think I should flip the switch and plug it directly into the wall at 220v. I can switch it to 230v. I basically just want to know if this is the reason why my motherboard went bad, and also what do you experts think is the better route, wall or transformer?

Thanks again to everyone that helped me out and go my computer up and running again!

 

Any Advice?

 

You can plug your PC into the 220V Outlet just make sure to switch the voltage switch on the back of the pc from 115 to 220.

If you don't you could fry your PSU.

If anything higher voltages may make the power supply last longer since higher voltages are more efficient.

 

There should be no change in switching voltages, you will just allow the computer all the power it needs from the wall socket, rather than what the converter can provide. Then you have a converter to use for the other computer peripherals you have that need it.

 

Personally, I'd be very catious about doing any such thing as you could start "over volting" the hardware and cause major issues, I'm not an expert here though.

 

Thanks everyone, I'm just going to plug it into the wall. I'm new to this 220V stuff..haha

Thanks again!

 

PSUs have a switch on the back that is designed to allow them to switch between regions supplying 110V (USA) and 220/230V(Europe etc). These switches may not be present on some big-box machines. The switches change which transformer set the power is passed through, so the output voltages never differ. The 220V system also requires less current, as wattage is voltage * amperage (current).