Budget PSU recomendations.

[darklighthim]

i need a new budget PSU as i will be upgrading my graphics card as well as RAM and all i have right now is some crap PSU to do me till i get a new one.

I'm looking at about £50/£60 to spend which isn't much for a PSU but i need a new graphics card and more RAM so i don't have much for the PSU.

**I'll be getting a Nvidia 9600 or if i can strech a 9800 so need enough power for one of them as well the rest of my sysem.

Cheers for any suggestions

 

[ChrisLX200]

What are the specs of your computer (to work out the power required)?

 

[Kennysevenfold]

the 9600XXX range are not that power hungry to be honest, i would go with something like this...

though it really epends of your other hardware cpu, HDDs, ram.?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-010-SS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

 

[Knubje]

The words budget and PSU are impossible to fit in the same sentence and should NEVER be used together, in my opinion.

If I were you, I'd get good quality, well known, branded one. I think with your price range you could actually get something decent enough. Post your spec so what you actually need can be ascertained!

 

[darklighthim]

The words budget and PSU are impossible to fit in the same sentence and should NEVER be used together, in my opinion.

If I were you, I'd get good quality, well known, branded one. I think with your price range you could actually get something decent enough. Post your spec so what you actually need can be ascertained!

By budget i was actually meaning a quality branded PSU thats not very expensive as opossed to crappy PSU thats cheap.

as for specs I have an E2180 dual core, 1 Sata + 1 IDE HDD, 1gb ram and an x1650xt graphics card at the moment but will be getting a nvidia 9600 or possibly an ati eqivelent card soon and an extra 2Gb RAM along with this PSU.

 

[roop128]

you should get this psu

 

[Wiggins]

you should get this psu

Welcome to the forums.

Whilst Hiper have had their fair share of bricks that blow up, the Type-M is a pretty sturdy PSU. I have one that is now in its 3rd machine and has been running fine for 2 years.

However, I did change the fan as it was quite loud which does void warranty but not all are loud. I must have had one of a few.

The Corsair VX 450W would power your rig no problem as the 9xxx Nvidia cards dont take a lot of power.

 

[darklighthim]

Cheers for all the suggestions so far, might go for a Hiper 530W HPU-4M530 or Corsair VX 450W.

 

[95thrifles]

I'll add my two pennies, Id recomend this one, though unfortunately its out of stock at the moment

 

[Kennysevenfold]

Cheers for all the suggestions so far, might go for a Hiper 530W HPU-4M530 or Corsair VX 450W.

do you read these forums.?

if not, you go get that Hiper,

 

[darklighthim]

I've not read a lot of these forums yet why?? should i not get the hiper?

 

[ChrisLX200]

They seem to have a habit of exploding causing collateral damage....

 

[b-star]

you should get this psu

YES, it is good choice... don't get bothered by "blow up"
Couple of Corsairs, Enermax did so too...

so don't listen and buy - but price was £41 befo`
Corsair which was listed above is good aswell, but maybe 430W won't be enought if you do more upgrades later!

 

[95thrifles]

Still recomend the PC P&C though they seem to of stopped doing the 470W, you could get the 610 but its £70, slightly over your budget. Antec make a good range of reasonably priced PSU's

 

[sharingan_sasuk]

I would recommend the Corsair VX 450 or PC Power & Cooling PSUs (although the 550W-ish one seems to have disappeared ) if you don't want to spend too much. Shouldn't need to anyways with your spec.

In the end I went for the Gigabyte Odin GT 550W as it was the only modular PSU within my price range I use it to power a C2D E8400 at stock 3.0Ghz, Asus P5Q Pro mobo and HIS Radeon 4850 128MB IceQ.