Ello Chaps... PSU? :)

Solarius

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Heya,

Just had my first PSU blowout, another Hiper Type R to add to the buggered list hehe.

Whats everyones recommendation about a decent £50 - £70 psu?

I've been looking at that one on the week only special. The OCZ 600w but am put off by the non modular wires. I reckon I will need about a 550w+ psu for upgrading etc

Any recommendations then please chaps? :D :D :D
 
meh, if you're not an overclocker, quite frankly a fairly cheap, cheapest "real" brand psu around 500W will do you. if you are a overclocker that really wants best most stable overclocks i would personally go for a single 12v rail PSU.

corsair have i read as a rumour, switched over to single rail psu's but still advertise as triple rail and i dunno how true it is. but i wouldn't get one due to that. silverstone, i think DA is the modular and OP series is normal wires and both single rail versions. which means you don't have any switching wires around to get nothing else on rails the cpu/gfx are on.

if corsair really are doing single rail output psu's now thats fine, but split rails are gimmicky, conform to a fairly silly and antiquated safety standard of only putting 18A down one cable, overclock a 2900xt and see how that works for ya ;) .

also most multi rail psu's still do the multi rail but allow more than 18amp on one rail which defeats the entire purpose. Intel have even gone back on their recommendation for the 18amp per rail which is why the single rail psu's are coming back bigtime.
 
stickroad said:
Ummm cant say i have heard of that particular Company, are they new? :p :D
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Tagan have been around for ages, they use very high quality topower parts.

Very good power supply units, have used a vast number of them.

Only tagan have been able to build a 330w psu that can power an overclocked x2 with an overclocked x1900xtx and 4 hard drives :D
 
Hey

Thanks a lot for the replies guys, Will definitely have a look at the Corsair now.

I do like to think of myself as a bit of an overclocker but have no idea about all this single/double/triple voltage rail stuff, spent forever getting my comp stable a few nights back and then the damn Hiper blew, typical :P

Would you think an 520w Corsair could supply enough watts to run the ati 2900's series of cards out of curiosity? (Opinions will suffice :))
 
mr_x_plosion said:
OCZ GameXtreme 600w.

Running my E6300 @ 3.15Ghz, X1950pro, 4 fans and 3 HDD's in my system just fine.
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seconded, i use the 700w

ocz are faultless
 
I have used my 2year old tagan 2force 580watt to power various systems. The most hungry was my current machine an e6600 oc'd to 3.4ghz (recently replaced with a P4 ready for intel's price cuts! ;) ), a titan amanda tec, 2 HDD's, 8800GTX (and before that a 7950GX2 overclocked to 600/830), 4x 120mm fans and 2x 92mm fans.

Wonderful PSU's. :)

gt
 
The GameXtreme is a good psu albeit rather loud, at least the two i owned and quite a few others have said so, i'm really glad i switched to the corsair 620w.
 
lay-z-boy said:
Tagan have been around for ages, they use very high quality topower parts.

Very good power supply units, have used a vast number of them.

Only tagan have been able to build a 330w psu that can power an overclocked x2 with an overclocked x1900xtx and 4 hard drives :D
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I know i know :p , just messing with waso_dude. :D

Anyway the Corsair is the way to go.
 
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