Are there any very good, smaller than atx, power supplies?

JonJ678 · 10 Jan 2011 at 22:28

The pico psu's look lovely, until you get to the small print which says if you're using them 24/7 or if they might get hot, they're only rated for half the nominal wattage. If it's hot and on 24/7, all bets are off.

There are the power supplies silverstone bundle with their cases, but the advice I was always given is to avoid cases with built in power supplies as the built in ones will be rubbish. This puts me off, despite silverstone's excellent name. I'd be interested in information about these, from somewhere which tore it apart and bench tested it. Google is failing me / I'm failing at google here.

Does anyone have any ideas? I'd be quite happy with 200W, as long as it will reliably output its 200W to well within spec, at 50 degrees ambient, for years. I don't think a pico would do.

JonJ678 · 10 Jan 2011 at 23:11

Thanks for the model number, it lead me to a review on Johnnyguru's site. His conclusion was that it isn't as good as an atx supply, but it's still very good considering the size limitations. 450W is lots too, so I believe it'll do rather well around 300W.

Thank you very much Tute

edit: I see that the SG05 and SG06 cases come with 300W power supplies, but there are also SG05-450 and SG06-450 models listed which include a "450W 80+" power supply, does anyone know if the power supply these cases come with is the above mentioned ST45SF or merely something similar? Their site seems a bit vague about it

edit2: I'm fairly sure the sugo's come with different, presumably worse power supplies than the ST45SF. No matter.

JonJ678 · 21 Jan 2011 at 21:50

That's interesting. The sugo is looking like a brilliant buy in that case, thanks guys.

JonJ678 · 21 Jan 2011 at 23:03

I'm toying with the idea of changing from X58 to a mini-itx based intel quad, but keeping an 8800GT connected. I'm pretty sure a pico wont do quad core and 8800gt, though it'll probably do one or the other. Otherwise m-atx X58 and two 8800gt's in a much smaller box than my current one. Either way it's good to have options. This is separate to the low power boards I was looking at in the other thread