Best 600W+ modular PSU

sepulchre · 18 Dec 2008 at 10:33

I'm looking for a new psu to power the rig in sig (replacing the 8800 with a 260-216), I had originally thought about the corsair 620W but since the price jump a few weeks ago to over a ton I'm not so keen. So what other contendors are there to consider?

Tomc@T · 18 Dec 2008 at 10:39

The Corsair 620W was what I was going to recommend, just fit n forget...... iirc I paid £90 for mine last year.

This looks about right:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-031-OC

But I have not personally used an OCZ PSU, so see what others say.

shadowscotland · 18 Dec 2008 at 10:58

only need a 500w psu for a single card & oc'ed quad

Enermax MODU 82+ 525w would be perfect - around £75inc
The 625w version is also a avaliable for not much more (and in more places)

Malazan · 18 Dec 2008 at 11:02

shadowscotland said:
only need a 500w psu for a single card & oc'ed quad

Enermax MODU 82+ 525w would be perfect - around £75inc
The 625w version is also a avaliable for not much more (and in more places)

+1

sepulchre · 18 Dec 2008 at 11:11

I have an ocz 520w PSU at the moment but the 12v rails are week and it only has a single pcie connector which is not a problem as I could use an adapter although I'm not keen on them.

I seem to buy a new PSU each year not because my current one fails but because it fails to supply enough power for a new rig so for once I thought I would get something which will easily cover me.

w311zy · 18 Dec 2008 at 11:19

i have a ocz stealtxtreme 600w and its coping for now but i need a bigger psu as when i overclock my Q6600 it seems to crash and freeze and thats only at 3.0 or 3.2

pastymuncher · 18 Dec 2008 at 11:28

Tomc@T said:
The Corsair 620W was what I was going to recommend, just fit n forget...... iirc I paid £90 for mine last year.

This looks about right:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=ca-031-oc

but i have not personally used an ocz psu, so see what others say.

they suck big time. see here.

shadowscotland said:
only need a 500w psu for a single card & oc'ed quad

Enermax MODU 82+ 525w would be perfect - around £75inc
The 625w version is also a avaliable for not much more (and in more places)

Fantastic psu's. Quiet and super efficient. What more could you want?

I would not recommend the Corsairs any longer. They were overpriced before and now they are just stupidly priced. Too many failures lately too.

EsaT · 18 Dec 2008 at 11:36

sepulchre said:
I have an ocz 520w PSU

Not much 520W rated OCZs but Mod/PowerStreams were old junks already three years ago.

Revised GTX260 is about same as G80 based 8800GTS
http://web.aanet.com.au/SnooP/psucalc.php

w311zy said:
i have a ocz stealtxtreme 600w and its coping for now but i need a bigger psu as when i overclock my Q6600 it seems to crash and freeze and thats only at 3.0 or 3.2

Of course that kind overclocked behavior can never be because of wrong settings or CPU/motherboard/memory being unable to cope with it... :rolleyes:

GSDog · 18 Dec 2008 at 12:33

I'm using an Enermax Modu82+ 625W (got it for £83) and it's a great PSU for the price. Rock solid and extremely quiet/silent.

Blackwhite · 18 Dec 2008 at 14:00

I agree - very good PSU.

Nelly · 18 Dec 2008 at 14:24

GSDog said:
I'm using an Enermax Modu82+ 625W (got it for £83) and it's a great PSU for the price. Rock solid and extremely quiet/silent.

Lets hope they don't blow up 2 years down the line like the usual Enermax's.

Glaucus · 18 Dec 2008 at 14:30

Zalmans are very good.

lunarwolf · 18 Dec 2008 at 14:34

Seasonic m series are brilliant, had mine for years. not sure if newer models come with latest 8pin pcie graphics connectors, may need to use molex adapters. Corsair PSU 750w and below are made by seasonic

and seasonic are better quality imo (cabling etc...). otherwise enermax mentionned is also very good, as well as Zalman HP series

EvilOne · 18 Dec 2008 at 15:11

Can recomend Zalmans HP modals, for price, build quality and lack of noise

sepulchre · 18 Dec 2008 at 17:26

Cheers for the responses guys!

Ocuk don't seem to have much in the way of enermax psu's these days so I think they are out (have gift vouchers to spend) and I'm a bit concerned by comments about the zalmans having lots of cables already attached as my antec 900 doesn't make hiding cables the easyest task.

So any other options, tough power any good?

pastymuncher · 18 Dec 2008 at 19:01

sepulchre said:
Cheers for the responses guys!

Ocuk don't seem to have much in the way of enermax psu's these days so I think they are out (have gift vouchers to spend) and I'm a bit concerned by comments about the zalmans having lots of cables already attached as my antec 900 doesn't make hiding cables the easyest task.

So any other options, tough power any good?

My Zalman only has the main 20/24 pin, 8/4 pin and a pci-e cable hard wired. Everything else is modular. Let's face it. You are going to use those cables anyway so what's the problem?

sepulchre · 19 Dec 2008 at 09:01

I don't have a problem with the obviously required cables but from comments I had read there were far more than this attached which in a case such as the 900 isn't good

pastymuncher · 19 Dec 2008 at 11:06

I have just checked for you and the Zalman ZM 500/600/750HP psu's only have a single pci-e, 8/4 pin cpu and 20/24pin plugs hard wired. Everything else is modular. The 850/1000w versions have an additional pci-e plug, single lead with 3x molex and a single lead with 2x sata hardwired. If you were going for a psu that size then you would be using those anyway.

The 500/600/750w versions are exactly as i told you above. I also actually have one and checked for you last night before i posted.

sepulchre · 19 Dec 2008 at 14:19

thanks for info

GSDog · 19 Dec 2008 at 14:47

Nelly said:
Lets hope they don't blow up 2 years down the line like the usual Enermax's.

2 years is better than the 1 year that the Corsair's blow up though, right?