Lads, I'm planning to buy this:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/kolink-kl-700-700w-80-plus-bronze-power-supply-ca-02b-kk.html
Now I'm on a budget and this seems such a good price and is also 80+ bronze. Was wondering if there are any users here who have heard about this brand or even have one of these PSUs.
Looking to run a 980 TI Xtreme Classic + 3570k oc'd
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No. There is virtually no information available on the Kolink psu's. No reviews, nothing. That put's me off straight away. That one you linked to, click the zoom on the picture that shows the wattage on the rails and you will see that psu only has 585w on the 12v rail. That is a very poor psu. Any decent modern psu should be able to deliver all or near enough all of it's power on the 12v rail. The rest of the range tells a similar story. I doubt if there is a decent internal component in any of them and by only offering a 2 year warranty they clearly have no confidence in their own products.
Would a corsair VS/CX 600W PSU suffice?
No again. The CX series are built down to a price using cheap internals and the awful VS series are even lower quality so avoid both.
The psu is argueably the single most important component in a pc and is not the place to save money. Buy a decent psu and it will last you through several upgrades. Buy a cheap one and most of the time you will end up buying something to replace it, that's if it doesn't fail first. A good 550w unit is more than enough for your pc.
Unfortunately now is a bad time to buy one from OCUK because the most commonly recommended ones are still out of stock and have been for several weeks now. Out of all the remaining instock psu's I persoanlly wouldn't go any cheaper than these:-
My basket at Overclockers UK:
The Antec Truepower Classic 550w is a Seasonic built dual rail design with 540w across them and a 5 year warranty.
The Bitfenix Whisper M 550w has only recently been released and has been getting very good reviews. It's a CWT built unit with triple 12v rails and the full 550w is available across them. Each rail powers a certain group of components. 12v1 powers the Motherboard + Peripherals, 12v2 the CPU and 12v3 the GPU. It's fully modular and has a 7 year warranty. Review
here.
The EVGA GQ 650w is a semi-modular units built by FSP and has a single 12v rail of the full 650w and a 5 year warranty. Review
here.
The Superflower Platinum King 550w has 546w on it's single 12v rail and a 5 year warranty.