Is the PSU in this bundle any good?

shroomz · 28 Dec 2010 at 23:34

The Halk said:
This would do the job if you want to spend more on a PSU than you need to.

Unless I'm mistaken Corsair have offloaded the manufacturing for their CX series away from CWT to some much less reputable company?

stulid · 28 Dec 2010 at 23:36

shroomz said:
Unless I'm mistaken Corsair have offloaded the manufacturing for their CX series away from CWT to some much less reputable company?

Correct, the newer CX430/500/600 range are poorer(still not to bad tho) compared to the majesty that was the CX400.

Also the CX400 was also a Seasonic built unit.

The Halk · 28 Dec 2010 at 23:38

I didn't know CWT had made the CX range at any point, I thought it was a new budget range Corsair brought in.

I guess what the OP needs to know is that he can buy a top of the range great PSU and it'll be whisper quiet and very efficient. But he doesn't need to. Indeed any PSU that OcUK sell is fine, and unless he's going very high end he could get away with the cheapest they sell.

It's really up to the OP how much he wants to spend.

Edit : I bought one 6 months ago, a Seasonic X-750. I bought it knowing it was overkill and it was too good for what I need it for. But that's fine since it was me.

Justintime · 28 Dec 2010 at 23:42

Facepalm. Look at those 3.3V shots. That is out of ATX spec, at 69mV by test five. Heck, it was out of spec already by test three. The other two rails were fairly well behaved, at 33mV for the 5V and 52mV for the 12V, but there's just no ignoring that 3.3V ripple.

Onward to the voltage readings. More not so goodness. Being a group regulated unit, the results from the two crossload tests can be expected. I can't hold those numbers against this unit. However, this is still not the best I've seen from a group regulated unit. Even recent units like the Topower KC-750 were able to do better than this. About 3% on the 12V rail, 5% on the 3.3V rail (it's almost at ATX spec), and 3% on the 5V rail.

I wouldn't have this psu free. The ripple alone on the 3.3v would make me shudder, muchless the poor voltage regulation.. poor RAM!

The Halk · 28 Dec 2010 at 23:42

Justintime said:
I wouldn't have this psu free.

Read your own sig you snob

Justintime · 28 Dec 2010 at 23:46

Not a snob. I've had some of the better coolermaster stuff in builds. That one does not make me feel confident in it. Same reason i boycotted a lot of the FSP Epsilon based psus (whom i used to use extensively), bad ripple. Took me years to go back to Antec after the caps went bad in a whole load of Truepower 430s i used in clients rigs.

stulid · 28 Dec 2010 at 23:48

Justintime said:
Not a snob. I've had some of the better coolermaster stuff in builds. That one does not make me feel confident in it.

The coolermaster silent pro and gold range are good.

The Halk · 28 Dec 2010 at 23:52

Yes. Sadly PSUs are in a position where we know who makes good ones and who makes bad ones, but we can't (generally speaking) buy them under those brand names, we have to instead buy a middleman brand name like Cooler Master, Corsair, OCZ and try to aim for the brand we really want.

But it isn't 2004, PSUs aren't the minefield they were back then. The reason for PSU hysteria was the design inside used to be geared towards a CPU which wasn't powered on the 12V rail. All of a sudden huge amounts of 12V were demanded partly by CPUs and partly by all of a sudden thirsty graphics cards. Times have changed since then and it's not as a bad as it was.

But there's still bangers!