Corsair CX 400W

Cyber-Mav said:
use themin general office machines for client builds. most taxing system one is used in is a security camera surveillance system, q6600, 4gig ddr3, p45t gigabyte board couple of mechanical drives and 16 camera capture card.

no issues with these power supplies at all, other than the 1 that died after about 2 hours of use, was running linpak on a e5300 system for office use.

ya do get the odd and dodgey one i guess. far better than the old qtec and hiper psu's iv encountered in the field. for cheapo system builds i will carry on recommending these seasonic built corsair 400w units till something better comes in at this price point.
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That's a pretty glowing recommendation. I've found that most PSUs that arrive faulty fail very quickly as you experienced. Beyond that, good quality units will go for a long time. It's the cheap ones that fail after a year to a few years use on the most part. There are always exceptions though.

Don't you even dare mention Q-Tec in this thread! :rolleyes: :p

But seriously, do steer clear of cheap units folks, I can't even remember how many times I've given that advice here on OcUK, and it's still true now. If you have any doubt, just ask on the forums and there's plenty of people willing to recommend a good unit for your needs.
 
I believe the official marketing spiel for the 295 was a 680-700W PSU requirement. That said, they're always more than generous, it probably pulls 320W absolute max in reality. Still, any generic 400W PSU would pop at even a sniff of such a card. The Corsair's made from solid stuff.

I'm putting together the system properly tomorrow (if my new board from OcUK arrives, you've never let me down btw!), so I can comment further on installation and whatever comes up I suppose. It's not being stretched though. It's a replacement for a generic unit that went bang and took the mobo with it.

Here's the spec:

Corsair CX 400W
Intel Pentium D 915 2.8GHz
Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L
2 x 1GB PC2-5300 Corsair ValueRAM
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB HDD
Sony DVD-RW
Akasa Zen (White)

As you can see, no GTX295. In fact, not even any dedicated gfx! Nothing exciting here, but I think a quality PSU is still more than justified when it's £36.99. The machine will likely be upgraded properly in a year or so anyway, so the PSU can be kept no problems. It's only a machine for light office work and web browsing.
 
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As per my other thread, looks like this little unit is faulty unfortunately! My cheap generic unit saved the day, but it's not good for much more than testing.

I'm about to test it in another system to confirm, but looks like I'll have to open an RMA :-(
 
This unit was replaced with no hassle at all from OcUK (thanks again) and now I'm running it in the build mentioned above. My impressions so far are that it's solid, really solid. I haven't had any hint of instability, reboots or anything like the sort of thing you can see with cheap units, I really think it makes the machine. It's also as damn-near silent as you could ever hope for, even the sound of the hard drive spinning (not accessing/head moving which is louder again) is louder than the PSU.

Despite receiving a DOA unit, I have no qualms about recommending this to others still.
 
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