Anyone Able to please Recommend a Fully Modular PSU?

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hi,

im trying to find a new PSU to buy as i didnt have to buy one early on, and i like the idea of these fully modular ones as mine have always been wire central with half the wires not being needed. So if anyone can let me know which is a good one to go for that would be great please?

budget is £100 but any lower is good and a little over should be ok :)

thanks for any help
 
That's just expensive for basic five year warranty and secondary full of capacitors chosen for cheap price.
Phanteks in only £7 more for doubled warranty.

Silverstone are first party suppliers of PSU's, I'd rather have a good warranty and excellent product, instead of an excellent warranty and acceptable product.

https://www.eteknix.com/silverstone-et700-mg-power-supply-review/9/
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/phanteks-amp-series-650w-power-supply-review

The Silverstone is a better product, I personally value that the most. It being cheaper is just a nice to have.
 
Silverstone are first party suppliers of PSU's, I'd rather have a good warranty and excellent product, instead of an excellent warranty and acceptable product.

https://www.eteknix.com/silverstone-et700-mg-power-supply-review/9/
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/phanteks-amp-series-650w-power-supply-review

The Silverstone is a better product, I personally value that the most. It being cheaper is just a nice to have.
Silverstone is mid level PSU brand with very few high end models.
Even flagship Strider Titanium is basically designed just to check that efficiency box for advertising and is otherwise standard.

And you can't directly compare scoring of different sites.
Tomshardware has way more detailed and stricter testing.

While that eTeknix review is toward "sloppy" to put it nicely:
Remembering to make big number of Chemicon primary capacitor.
But only checking that secondary caps are unknown without bothering to tell what they are.
That makes me suspicious they're real cheapos and he didn't want to say anything bad!
I mean if you go through the trouble of tearing PSU open to that level, why else not tell reader what those secondary capacitors are?
(and 3.3V regulation is very far from excellent)

And I would rather have that cheaper cap in primary and expensive ones in secondary:
If PSU's primary dies (any problem there tends to cause fast self destruct because of high voltage) secondary loses power and simply shuts down.
But if secondary goes bad because of capacitors, there's risk of damage to components, or at the least increased wear from excessive ripple.
Whose filtering relies on secondary capacitors staying in good shape.
And that's about the most demanding and stressfull job for electrolytic capacitor needing high quality capacitor to last.
 
Silverstone is mid level PSU brand with very few high end models

It's cheaper and better than the Phantex one... that's more than enough reason for me. The reason that PSU has such long warranty is because they aren't a first party supplier, all they really have is their brand power and warranty. I wasn't even trying to say it was the best, you can buy £200 PSU's which will blow both out of the water, I like the Silverstone due to it's price to preformance.

And you can't directly compare scoring of different sites.
Tomshardware has way more detailed and stricter testing.

This is the kind of thing that concerns me about off the cuff PC advice. Even if some hardware journalists are better or worse, they're still leagues ahead of all the rest of us. I'll trust either of them any day over the analysis of someone like myself, I advise you do the same.
 
It's cheaper and better than the Phantex one... that's more than enough reason for me. The reason that PSU has such long warranty is because they aren't a first party supplier, all they really have is their brand power and warranty. I wasn't even trying to say it was the best, you can buy £200 PSU's which will blow both out of the water, I like the Silverstone due to it's price to preformance.
Silverstone hasn't made and doesn't make a single PSU, but just has OEM put their brand sticker on them.
Another thing forgotten by eTeknix.
(only FSP, Seasonic and SuperFlower are actual manufacturers from commonly sold retail PSUs)

And it certainly isn't better for such miniscule price difference with unknown secondary capacitors and half the warranty length.
Which strongly hints towards that Silverstone doesn't trust those to work reliably long time in enthusiast use.
While no universal cover it all measure for quality, warranty certainly tells something about how confident brand is about reliability.

Of course it's possible to design/make PSU which lasts long with cheaper capacitors by oversizing them.
But in that case there's no reason for such basic level warranty.
More likely actual manufacturer has done accelerated aging tests (should be part of PSU development process of any reliable manufacturer) and results are used to determine what warranty lengths can be given before failure rate rises too high.
With Silverstone then trusting that silver hype brand to sell PSUs with such basic level warranties.
 
That's quite interesting, who makes Silverstone's stuff then? Didn't seem like the rebranding type but I guess you never know.
Silverstone is one of the grab bag brands changing manufacturer likely basing on cheap enough pricing.

CWT/Channel Well Technology has made quite a few Silversones.
They're one of the biggest strictly OEMs...
With quality varying lot depending on what orderer pays/wants:
CWT made those über garbage Fuhjyyu capacitor equipped Antecs and BeQuiets like 15 years ago.
One of those infamous Antecs lasted five months in Sonata II case of neighbour's PC, before press of power button only gave popping sound from PC's rear...
With replacing standard capacitor PSU cooking up to booting problem level after four years.
That was replaced by my old PSU, which eventually got to age of 13 years before being retired by my next old PSU which is now 11 years old.
(quality parts using PSUs are cheaper in long term)

Enhance Electronics has made higher end Silverstones including those meh Titaniums.

FSP/Fortron has also made lots of models.
Which were often easily identified from layout and C(r)apXon capacitors which used to be almost trademark for FSP.

And known as at best mediocre OEM Sirtec has made lower end models.
 
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