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Agreed! We are a business, high end, mid end and low end products are offered. Choose which is best for you
I thought OcUK only really stocked good quality products.........
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Agreed! We are a business, high end, mid end and low end products are offered. Choose which is best for you
Dear angry flamers,
Please take the time to read and research the product you are flaming before going all out attack.
For example the OcUK Swift 550W is made by WinPower. So lets think. Why not have a search and see if WinPower make descent PSU's?
A quick look on google returns these reviews:
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=403
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1818
Reviews which commend the PSU's on price and reliabillity.
Now I grant you, the OcUK 550W PSU may not be the same PSU. But come on guys. Don't just jump out and start flaming just for the sake of it!
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Higadeb
Please take the time to read and research the product you are flaming before going all out attack.
For example the OcUK Swift 550W is made by WinPower. So lets think. Why not have a search and see if WinPower make descent PSU's?
A quick look on google returns these reviews:
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=403
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1818
Reviews which commend the PSU's on price and reliabillity.
Now I grant you, the OcUK 550W PSU may not be the same PSU. But come on guys. Don't just jump out and start flaming just for the sake of it!
Yours
Higadeb
I'm glad that you've done the research, they're certainly something that I wouldn't expect from OcUK unless they were of good quality. Most other online IT hardware stores are not nearly as choosy.
On the subject of return rates, I've just had my 3rd faulty Corsair PSU. Despite them being a great brand, they're not immune from failure.
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90% of PSU reviewers don't actually test them properly, they only take temperature and effiency into account, and how pretty the PSU looks, there is a lot more to it.
But whatever, I just sincerely hope nobody hoping to power something like a GTX 480 with buy one of the 'Swift' PSU's.
And even if WInpower did have one or two decent units, that doesnt mean all of them are, take the OCZ SXS series for example, the 400W Stewalthxstream is actually very good, it is a CWT unit and is on par (or i THINK slightly better) than the Corsair CX400W. However, the rest of the Stealthxstream line up is sub par and made my Sirfa IIRC. One good unit doesn't mean theyre all good.
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Nice, which orifice did you pull that figure from?
Such as?
Why? Surely it's their choice? You really think someone is going to spend hundreds, maybe even thousands on components and go "Hm, you know what, I think I'll buy a £39 PSU, it's cheap!" - chances are, people are going to go for the high-end brands. Whereas someone building a seedbox, or something small (htpc, perhaps) or just an office/internet machine would probably take advantage of a cheap PSU.
Just because you wouldn't purchase one doesn't suddenly make them a useless product. I wouldn't buy a GTX 480, but that doesn't make it trash.
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1. Opinion.
2. Voltage regulation/stability, noise supression, 12v ripple, these sort of things are quite important if you actually want your components to last
3. It is trash if it is branded as a 750W and it cannot deliver 750W. Period.
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get the gear cheap enough so some of us can knock up computers, put em on ebay and turn a profit after the fees and you'll have guaranteed returning customers until you die.
troof.
most normal people know that:
you get what you pay for.
and
if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
nobody is going to buy a graphics card for 349.99, a motherboard for 280 and a processor for 260 then throw a 12 quid power supply in the mix unless it comes with the case. besides, i've never seen a winpower fail AND take out the components, even when some idiot slides the voltage selector to 110 volts (yeah, it happens, and it kills power supplies stone dead but i've replaced enough to know that the rest of the parts survive)
Additionally, all the big pc sellers like dell and hp use cheap ass power supplies and if they were so unreliable you know sites like engadget and tom's hardware would have that splashed all over their sites. "dell in power supply strife" or "acer psu class action suit" etc. you all know i'm right but your clinging to it like velcro on pubes.
You'd do well to just put it out of your mind.
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I'm guessing they are WinPower. Low priced PSUs HOWEVER I use them and haven't had any problems. I have an 800W which powers my system without breaking a sweat. My friend has the 600W model which has been powering his Phenom II x4 machine with a 4850 for the best part of a year
Common phrases, but people ignore their better sense so often on this. 500W @ £24.99 and 500W @ £65.99, it's a no brainer right? Just a different brand, cheap will do the job....
A cheap psu vs a quality product- http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/psus/2010/02/22/600-700w-psu-review-round-up/2
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having seen about 5 threads all on the same topic, i feel an urge to chip in with my two cents.
Yes, i am naturally suspicious of these cheapy PSUs. Yes the thought has crossed my mind "Surely OCUK wouldn't stock a load of **** and expect to get away with it, so what am i missing here?"
However, i somehow doubt one of these units are going to end up with a full proper review (ie, being put through the paces with equipment such as "the beast"). I also seriously doubt, even if OCUK put their entire PR team behind them, they're not going to end up in everyones high performance rigs, which is where one is most likely to go pop. i reckon a 500w el cheapo should be fine for some power sipping office PC. However, I wouldnt dream of putting it in a system that would draw anything near 500w.
So my final comment on this is simply: time will tell.
Yes, i am naturally suspicious of these cheapy PSUs. Yes the thought has crossed my mind "Surely OCUK wouldn't stock a load of **** and expect to get away with it, so what am i missing here?"
However, i somehow doubt one of these units are going to end up with a full proper review (ie, being put through the paces with equipment such as "the beast"). I also seriously doubt, even if OCUK put their entire PR team behind them, they're not going to end up in everyones high performance rigs, which is where one is most likely to go pop. i reckon a 500w el cheapo should be fine for some power sipping office PC. However, I wouldnt dream of putting it in a system that would draw anything near 500w.
So my final comment on this is simply: time will tell.
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Cheap gear? Aye sure install your pound shop PSU and see what happens mate. Just don't post on this forum when it destroy's your machine. Run along.
True, but why the 750w for a home or office comp?
Probably because like most el-cheapo PSUs they can only make somewhere around 1/3rd of their rated power so 750 would mean it's a 250w and if it goes anywhere above 300 it will blow up ( hence you shouldn't use it with any other than 5450 or integrated GPU ).