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    Moving back to Canada

    Hello everyone, as title says i'm moving back to Canada soon forever, living in Greece atm, and i wanna take my PC with me since i built it myself and i don't want to leave it here and rebuilt all over again, voltage in Greece and 220 and in Canada is 120, if i buy a new PSU for my PC in Canada will all the other parts work corrrectly?

    Any help will be most thankfull.

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    Pandaren Monk
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    I'm not an expert in this topic, but yes, I would presume that you just need to change the PSU.

    Having said that, I would closely look at the shipping costs of sending your PC back to Canada. It could be expensive. In the end, it might only be worth sending back a few key components (your hard drives, video card, etc) and putting them in a new PC back in Canada.

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    Yes, but probably not worth the cost and risk to ship it.

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    Yeah everything should work fine. Im not sure on your outlet plugs though. Because the ends might be diffrent.

    Have fun in Canada eh

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    Quote Originally Posted by xZANGEITIx View Post
    Yeah everything should work fine. Im not sure on your outlet plugs though. Because the ends might be diffrent.

    Have fun in Canada eh
    "Travel adaptor"(or whatever you call it in english), is cheap as hell, like a few bucks max.
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    Thank you for the replies, will check what's the cost for shipping it and if it's worth it.

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    Every PSU I've ever seen is compatible with both 220/240V and 120V. It's simply a matter of buying an appropriate cord for the outlet and, if it's an older one without automatic switching, flipping the little voltage switch on the back.

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    Why we even have this kind of divide in volts?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Masark View Post
    Every PSU I've ever seen is compatible with both 220/240V and 120V. It's simply a matter of buying an appropriate cord for the outlet and, if it's an older one without automatic switching, flipping the little voltage switch on the back.
    They should all go from down to 100V for Japan up to 240V. We even stopped doing automatic switching circuits 10 years ago for continuous mode, so a PSU that doesn't work in the full range isn't worth the transport costs.

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    Why we even have this kind of divide in volts?
    History and inertia.

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