High End Case Psu Not worth premium cheap vs premium

[graylinghunter]

I swapped my psu for a cosair 620 from an unbranded cheap £23 PSU. I was looking to make my system a little quieter. It has not had much effect at all. So for £75 difference I am not sure it was not worth it. The only thing with the new psu is its modular so my case has a few less wires? but this has a slight downside as the cables from the back of the psu take up more room than normal. I fell into the same trap a couple of months back when I swapped from air cooled zalman 9500led to swiftech apex ultra! my system didnt OC any better and the noise difference was minimal but the bling effect was the only bonus.

 

[normski_]

If the Corsair hasn't made any difference to the noise level, could I suggest that it wasn't your cheap PSU causing the problme in the first place?

I have two of th 620w Corsairs and they are wonderfully quiet.

 

[Messiah Khan]

The added benefits with decent PSUs that you may not have seen are; A cleaner, more stable power supply especially when the PSU is being pushed. This will deffinately help the stability of the machine when overclocking and filling the machine up with more components. The second benefit a more expensive PSU adds is one that you will hopefully never see; Failure protection. When a decent PSU fails, it has lots of parts that prevent it from damaging other connected components through power surges etc. With a cheap PSU, some or many of these features will be missing, meaning that a failure in the PSU can also result in a fried Motherboard, harddrives, cpu etc. Hopefully this helps ou understand why we tell people to get a good PSU.

 

[graylinghunter]

Hmm I have been building pcs from early 90s and to be honnest i have not had any problems with any of the generic power supplies failing or burning out other parts, its only in latter years that branded supplies have come into the picture. Note I was not putting the cosair product down I am just pointing out that a cheaper win power psu can do the same job as long as its not overloaded to full capacity. Also I would expect the higher end psu may be cheaper and quieter to run. I have run the win power 600w psu since i installed the e6600 some months ago when the cpu first came out it been oc ever since as well as my 7900gtx (see below). 3 sata drives 2 dvdrw drives a sound card a tv card.
In my time I must have built well over 100 systems. I have never had one! back although I have not built OC systems for other people.

 

[WJA96]

In my time I must have built well over 100 systems. I have never had one! back although I have not built OC systems for other people.

Oh, that's you cursed then....