To be fair the OCZ had great reviews and looks great, so I look forward to trying it out. The andtec had 4 12v rails and the OCZ had 1 12v rail. Should I have gone for the andtec or is the OCZ one with only 1 rail good enough? I don't understand how multiple rails differ from single rails.
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the easiest way to describe it is saying that a single rail means all the PSUs power on the 12V line is delivered from one source. multiple rails mean the 12V power comes from multiple sources. what i dont want to do is recommend a PSU with two 200W sources and a graphics card that could take more than 200W which you might only be able to power from one source. that might not be the case with the bequiet, but i'd rather be safe than sorry
to be honest i wouldnt worry too much about the single/multiple rails thing, just make sure you have a nice bit of headroom with your PSU ratings
Yeah, well the OCZ should be a much bigger step up than what I've got at the moment. Even though it's 50w less the efficiency is a lot better so it'll be much better than the EZcool. To be fair, PC is stable and runs decently apart from the the problems I mentioned a few posts up. I think it just needs a few more watts to be completely stable and the OCZ will provide them 
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To make matter worse, according to recently PSUs review on Custom PC (bit-tech), the Be Quiet! Pure Power L7 only able to draw maximum of 28.5A (342W) from the 12v rails instead of the rated maximum 35A (420W), and with a maximum output of 464W instead of rated 530W.
Got it today, installed it, fired it up and I've still got the problem with sometimes booting up. Also played BF3, and got a crash. With the old PSU I only had 1 crash when I first played the game, and again now I had one crash but played it for an hour after that and it was fine.
Don't think PSU was the problem, maybe some patch or driver issues as I know there are a few and nvidia and EA are working on patches.
At least I know my PC is safe from melting with a crappy PSU and it'll also be using less electricity.
Don't think PSU was the problem, maybe some patch or driver issues as I know there are a few and nvidia and EA are working on patches.
At least I know my PC is safe from melting with a crappy PSU and it'll also be using less electricity.
Sell the old PSU or keep it as a test one or a backup.
As for the booting up issue. I used to have that on a 775 system. Is your memory overclocked? My old Crucial Ballistix used to cause me that problem, it was supported by the motherboard but it would sometimes not boot properly.
Is the memory the standard that your board requires?
As for the booting up issue. I used to have that on a 775 system. Is your memory overclocked? My old Crucial Ballistix used to cause me that problem, it was supported by the motherboard but it would sometimes not boot properly.
Is the memory the standard that your board requires?