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A friend i work with wants to upgrade his PC. I have offered to sell him some of my spare parts if he needs them.

My concern is with his power supply. I am not sure it will be able to handle the GPU I am offering him since i am unfamiliar with the brand. On the side of the CPU, it gives the current for each rail but my power hungry GTX580 is making me skeptical of this PSUs reliability. The PSU is also 3 years old.

Here is an upside-down picture of it from the side:
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He wants to upgrade his CPU to a 6300 and or 8320. There wont be an overclock on the GPU but the CPUs will have a mild overclock probably to 4GHz or a little more (which i will do myself).

GPU is a GTX580 Liquid cooled (these were awesome things and still come with a fair bit of grunt).

What do you think guys?

Also, he wants to keep costs to a minimum.
 
It's a ok psu for a budget rig but nothing special about it. FSP do make some very good psu's but this is a OEM one that's sold to retailers so they can sell them as their own. It's a budget psu with cheap internals and only has 360w on the 12v rail where it counts. The FX 8000 series cpu's suck a hell of a lot of power when overclocked and along with a GTX580 i would tell him to buy a new decent branded psu. One that has 500w on the 12v rails would be good.
 
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Going to try to convince him for a 550 Watt xfx or similar. You think i can get away with 500w? The GPU with an overclocked 8350 has taken down a 750watt Corsair PSU before but i am pretty sure it was a faulty PSU.
 
Agree with above. Even if the PSU were solid it will struggle with a higher end card like the GTX580, which can comsume, along with the rest of the system, over 350W when loaded.
 
Its not a terrible PSU - dual 18amp rails, yada yada pretty average even possibly slightly good (definitely not in the same bracket as winpower, q-tec, etc. :D) however I'd definitely upgrade it if your planning on putting a GTX580 and a reasonably high end AMD CPU in there.

EDIT: Personally I'd feel more comfortable with ~600watt with that spec - my Q9550 @ 4GHz + GTX470 SLI would flatten anything below 700watt from an average brand and really needed something like an 800watt corsair to be comfortable with the GPUs overclocked to.
 
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I have another 750watt in my pc but i am way to scared to try SLI GTX580, especially because I like to bench the under water CPU. Instead of going SLI i will sell the GTX to my mate and then look into a R9-290 on release.

I have a full cover waterblock for the 580 but the AIO it has is impressive enough that i have never bothered fitting it. The block will make a beautifully crafted paperweight when i sell the card.
 
I had a 700watt OCZ Fatal1ty in my old Q9550/GTX470 SLI setup and with the GPUs clocked to roughly GTX480 levels the PSU fan was coming on (which according to the spec only happens when its above ~80% rated output).

The OCZ PSU used internals by Impervio that were the equivalent of a ~850 watt PSU from just about any other brand. I tried my older OCZ 650watt in there first and it would just power off under load :S
 
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I had a 700watt OCZ Fatal1ty in my old Q9550/GTX470 SLI setup and with the GPUs clocked to roughly GTX480 levels the PSU fan was coming on (which according to the spec only happens when its above ~80% rated output).

The OCZ PSU used internals by Impervio that were the equivalent of a ~850 watt PSU from just about any other brand. I tried my older OCZ 650watt in there first and it would just power off under load :S
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I have read that the old 700Watt fatal1ty OCZs have been replaced for the new 750 Watt fatal1ty with completely different internals. The 750W one is the one i am currently sporting in one of my builds, i got it partially because it had a 5 year warranty. Unfortunately, today i saw the rumors that OCZ are going bust soon.

Goodbye 5 year warranty. :(
 
It was only the 700w that was made by Impervio (Etasis) all the other's have always been Sirtec units. The old units with the part number ending in FTY (now replaced) had weak 12v rails, usually 100w less than the total output power. The two new units, begining with FTY (FTY550 and FTY750) can deliver 495w and 750w respectively, on their 12v rails.
 
You think my 750W fatal1ty can run dual 7970s or a 7990 with a heavily OC'd 8350?

Like i said, am waiting for the R9-290 to come out but if the prices disagree with me, i will be tempted by the 7990, xfire 7970 or xfire 7950 set up. Weighing up the cost of extra waterblocks vs the cool aesthetics that Xfire cards can bring to the case.
 
A heavily clocked 8350 by itself sucks a hell of a lot of power. In this review a 8350 clocked at only 4.4Ghz @1.35v with a pair of 7970's has a total system power draw of 750w at full load. That's more than i thought originally so no chance.
 
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It was only the 700w that was made by Impervio (Etasis) all the other's have always been Sirtec units. The old units with the part number ending in FTY (now replaced) had weak 12v rails, usually 100w less than the total output power. The two new units, begining with FTY (FTY550 and FTY750) can deliver 495w and 750w respectively, on their 12v rails.
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Yup the 700watt one was a solid unit the older ones not so much. Tempted to use it again in my new build as its so quiet except when under huge load.
 
Okay guys.

I have been looking at PSUs for my friends PC which will have the PNY liquid cooled gtx 580 and a moderately clocked 8320.

Basically the concern is reliability and budget. I am looking at 600W supplys with from respectable manufacturers. He wants to spend as little as possible, any chance to net a reliable ~600W for around 50-55 quid?

Don't care about modular but if its an extra 5, ill pay it myself for the ease of cable management when it comes down to the installing work.
 
Did see it and if it were for myself, i would get that one. I would prefer a bit more of an overhead though, since it is for someone else.

I have a list of Seasonic made PSUs which are re-branded but it is incredibly out of date, so its making choosing one rather difficult.

Thanks
 
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Bookmark this site. It is a excellent list and is kept up to date. It tells you who builds what for who, the strength of the 12v rails and links to reviews. Everybody should have this in their bookmarks.
 
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