Good Makes?

timmymeuk1 · 17 Dec 2015 at 11:38

Ive not looked at a PSU for a while and just want to know what are good makes?

When I bought my last one it was Antec and Corsair were the makes to look for.

timmymeuk1 · 17 Dec 2015 at 12:47

Another note ive picked up a gtx 460 quite cheap so just need enough power. my antec 380W has done me well but i believe it wont run it.

Ace Modder · 17 Dec 2015 at 12:55

Antec is still one of the best brand out there for sure.

Stick with the brand if your experience is good

Also you put food on the table for my child if you do, that's got to be a good feeling, right?

pastymuncher · 17 Dec 2015 at 13:18

Pimp

I would say that argueably the best psu's around at the moment are the EVGA Supernova G2 series. All are Superflower built and based on their own Leadex Gold platform but EVGA give them a whopping great warranty (550w, 650w=7 years, 750w and above get 10 years).

ShivP · 17 Dec 2015 at 14:43

Don't look at the make, look at the model - corsair, evga, almost all have good and bad units e.g. B1 evga isn't great, but ps, g2, GS, p2 etc

timmymeuk1 · 17 Dec 2015 at 15:42

Ive had my antec earthwats 380W for 7 years with not even a blip. may be cheeky and see if it runs the gtx 460.

Yeh evga psu i wouldn't of even considered. If I do go with one probably would be Antec. Great make Ace Modder

timmymeuk1 · 17 Dec 2015 at 20:54

Gtx 460 running smoothly! Antec are awesome haah

pastymuncher · 18 Dec 2015 at 11:23

You need to be really careful as you are getting to the limits of that psu. It only has 324w on the 12v rail and most reviews I have checked put total system power draw with a GTX460 at 290w. You are not giving yourself much headroom, especially as you have such a old psu.

timmymeuk1 · 18 Dec 2015 at 12:39

What should I look out for signs of wear and tear? any voltages i should be looking out for?

pastymuncher · 18 Dec 2015 at 13:21

Under load the fan will ramp up as it will be running hotter. You could see error messages, bsod's and the psu could fail due to it's age. Basically you are taking a gamble.

timmymeuk1 · 18 Dec 2015 at 20:29

So if you had £50 ish what would you buy?

RockoSRI · 18 Dec 2015 at 20:33

pastymuncher said:
Pimp

I would say that argueably the best psu's around at the moment are the EVGA Supernova G2 series. All are Superflower built and based on their own Leadex Gold platform but EVGA give them a whopping great warranty (550w, 650w=7 years, 750w and above get 10 years).

This. Can't argue with a 10 year Warranty on the 750w G2

koolpc · 18 Dec 2015 at 20:34

EVGA or BeQuiet. Both superb. Antec.........Meh!!

timmymeuk1 · 18 Dec 2015 at 20:56

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/evga-500w-80-plus-bronze-power-supply-100-b1-0500-kr-ca-005-ea.html guessing this one is better then the white version?

Disco_P · 19 Dec 2015 at 00:29

timmymeuk1 said:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/evga-500w-80-plus-bronze-power-supply-100-b1-0500-kr-ca-005-ea.html guessing this one is better then the white version?

White version?

Regardless there is a review here from the best PSU reviewer. In short it's good.

lee32uk · 19 Dec 2015 at 01:30

koolpc said:
EVGA or BeQuiet. Both superb. Antec.........Meh!!

Antec use Delta for a lot of their units, so not sure why you would think that.

pastymuncher · 19 Dec 2015 at 15:08

koolpc said:
EVGA or BeQuiet. Both superb. Antec.........Meh!!

Can't see how you can say Antec are meh when you think Bequiet are superb. Antec has several Delta and Seasonic built units which are quality unit's. The op's is a Seasonic built unit and was good in it's day. Bequiet on the other hand mainly has their units built by FSP and a few by HEC, both of which have produced some awful units in the past. Bequiet's psu's are largely mediocre and all are overpriced while most of the "cheaper" ones have fairly weak 12v rails for what are supposed to be modern psu's.

Timmymeuk1, If you can stretch to £59.99 you can stick with Antec and have the high quality, gold rated Truepower Classic 550w. It's not modular but then again the EVGA 500B that you have selected isn't either. It is a much better quality unit though and is built by Seasonic for Antec.

Mercutio · 19 Dec 2015 at 22:57

I think this covers a lot of it:

http://i.imgur.com/tgrbCnr.jpg

timmymeuk1 · 20 Dec 2015 at 15:00

Thanks everyone, im going to wait for sales if there is any! hopefully pick something up cheap.

Rroff · 20 Dec 2015 at 15:10

Mercutio said:
I think this covers a lot of it:

http://i.imgur.com/tgrbCnr.jpg

Not sure - its missing a few good units for the UK market and has 1-2 actually terrible PSUs rated fairly highly and low rates 1-2 actually good PSUs.

pastymuncher said:
Can't see how you can say Antec are meh when you think Bequiet are superb. Antec has several Delta and Seasonic built units which are quality unit's. The op's is a Seasonic built unit and was good in it's day. Bequiet on the other hand mainly has their units built by FSP and a few by HEC, both of which have produced some awful units in the past. Bequiet's psu's are largely mediocre and all are overpriced while most of the "cheaper" ones have fairly weak 12v rails for what are supposed to be modern psu's.

Sometimes you get PSUs based on a solid OEM design but they cheap out on some aspects i.e. connector quality, etc. (not pointing at Antec here).

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