American Computer in Japan

[BujinZero]

Hey all,

A friend of mine is moving to Japan for a few years, and wants me to build him a new computer. I was just in Japan a few weeks ago (so I could've bought the parts in Akihabara), so I know that a US built computer might have difficulties with the power in Japan.

Ideally, some kind of converter would make everything hunky-dory. Could we use a converter with a US power strip? If not, we'd build the computer here and use a temporary power supply, and install the Japan-rated supply. However, that doesn't address the monitor or speakers.

Thoughts? What would you do? What have you done? Thank you.

 

[morkman100]

US power supplies have a switch on the back to switch between the 2 standard voltages (110/220), so that shouldn't be a problem.

The monitor and speakers might be an issue. They use a lot of power for a standard transformer to handle.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Uhhhh Japan is 110V.... Japan and Taiwan are both rated for 110V. That said, you can use 220V with computers. That's why you have transformers...