>600w PSU for £50?

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Just bought myself a GTX460 and sadly I fear my 500W Seasonic S12 is not up to the task, despite delivering 33A in the 12v rail (per the sticker).

I have someone who will buy my 500W for £30, but I don't want to spend much more than £50 total to replace it.

I can't have a noisy one, as my system is otherwise extremely quiet. I'm willing to go for 2nd hand but the good PSUs don't tend to turn up on the 2nd hand market it seems. Guess people just use them till they die :p

What's around for £50? Probably nothing, but please don't recommend a £80-100 PSU - I just don't have the money. Thanks.
 
Keep the 500W as other have said, £60 for a 600W won't get you much decent and might give you less that what you have now.

Also the new Corsair CX range are under 80% efficiency..
 
Well I do seem to be having a problem with the Seasonic. With my last card (8800GT), I could use any USB port with no problems. After switching with the GTX460, USB ports are misbehaving.

My USB keyboard has randomly been losing power, it seems. All LEDs on the receiver go out, and the keyboard stops working. Sometimes plugging it into a different port will fix it, but sometimes a cold reset is needed :/

Also my phone will no longer charge through the front USB ports, suggesting there just isn't enough power to go around.

[edit: Should also note that the exhaust on the Seasonic is now pretty hot, something I didn't notice with the 8800GT)
 
How old is this seasonic?
Could be age, but that seems unlikely. Whats the cooling like in the case? The GTX460 will exhaust more heat than an 8800GT
 
Cookeh said:
How old is this seasonic?
Could be age, but that seems unlikely. Whats the cooling like in the case? The GTX460 will exhaust more heat than an 8800GT
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Pretty old. It's an S12 v1, not the v2. Must be at least 3 years old. Maybe :D
 
Renni 95 said:
I have a cic 750w psu, it seems fine so far :) its about 50 new
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It's also garbage. Rig like yours and you buy a cheap and nasty psu. That's just asking for trouble. That thing will never come close to putting out 750w. If you are lucky it may do half that.

You may want to remove the Ebay links in your siggy as i believe it's against the rules. No selling allowed outside the MM.
 
EsaT said:
USB ports use 5V which is voltage not used by graphics cards.


I wouldn't recommend these new overspecced low end (and surely cheap component) CXes except for word processing/web surfing PC.
And OCZ is another user of cheap time bomb capacitors.
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What else would you recomend at this budget then? Yes it would be nice to get better, but if someone only has X amount of money you cant recomend them anything which costs more than that can you
 
USB uses 5V... hmm, weird that I'm having trouble there then. But it's not beyond the realms of possibility. From what I read if you heavily load the 12v rails the other rails suffer too.

Anyway, I've got my eye on an ex-display TruePower 650W... they're supposed to be good.

I just wonder exactly what ex-display means... that it was powering a demo PC, or that it was just out of its box?

[edit: just pulled the trigger on a TruePower New 650W (also by Seasonic) for £57, ex-display, supposedly new and unused. Sounded like a bargain to me :p Will sell on my S12 for £30 ish]
 
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Aretenon said:
Seems like a pretty good deal to me too, and as far as I'm concerned it is a very good PSU.
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Well I just found it brand new and delivered for the same price lol. I should have been less hasty to buy it off ebay :p

Oh well, it hasn't been used, so I should still get 3 years manufacturers guarantee, so it's all good.
 
Actually I'm a little suspicious about the purchase I just made... on average, reatailers selling the TP-650 GB are asking £90 for it.

One place is asking £57. This place seems legit, and has a large number of reviews saying it's legit.

But that price just seems suspiciously low! I've checked to see if there's an older product using the same product code, but it doesn't appear there is.

Wonder what I'll get delivered to me...
 
Hmm..... well.... seems the US price for this unit is about $65 after rebates.

That would make a UK price of £60 good, but not suspicious anymore. It would also make the typical UK price of £90 a total rip-off.

Is this just another example of stuff being over-priced in this country?
 
FoxEye said:
Just bought myself a GTX460 and sadly I fear my 500W Seasonic S12 is not up to the task, despite delivering 33A in the 12v rail (per the sticker).

I have someone who will buy my 500W for £30, but I don't want to spend much more than £50 total to replace it.

I can't have a noisy one, as my system is otherwise extremely quiet. I'm willing to go for 2nd hand but the good PSUs don't tend to turn up on the 2nd hand market it seems. Guess people just use them till they die :p

What's around for £50? Probably nothing, but please don't recommend a £80-100 PSU - I just don't have the money. Thanks.
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In order to replace your Seasonic with something better you will have to spend at least £80. The Corsair CX range and the OCZs are really no match for it.

In any case your Seasonic is plenty as I used to run my system with an overclocked 460 with a Tagain 480W
 
95thrifles said:
What else would you recomend at this budget then? Yes it would be nice to get better, but if someone only has X amount of money you cant recomend them anything which costs more than that can you
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That £50 price point is rather nasty because cheap components flourish in there and high quality capacitors start to become available at around 70.
Of course for manufacturer price difference isn't that big but price difference gets multiplied many times in chain between OEM and end user.


FoxEye said:
[edit: just pulled the trigger on a TruePower New 650W (also by Seasonic) for £57, ex-display, supposedly new and unused. Sounded like a bargain to me :p
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That's Seasonic M12D platform based and has Japanese capacitors.
http://www.kitguru.net/components/power-supplies/zardon/antec-truepower-new-650w-review/5/
 
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