Kolink KL-500M 500W - Any good?

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Any good and I presume 500w plenty for my rig?

GTX770
6600k
1 x SSD
2 x HDD
3x120mm fans + CPU (Thermalright has 2 x 140)

Its small and modular which is what I need in my case as wiring round the back is VERY tight so not having to have Molex be nice.
 
Do you really expect a so called 500w semi modular psu costing under £37 to be any good? No, it's rubbish. If you click on the picture showing the side with the label you can see that it only has a pathetic 360w on it's very weak 12v rail. Underneath that it says recommended 24/7 power to be only 400w. It's garbage. Avoid Kolink altogether. There is practically no information on these psu's anywhere. Nobody knows who the oem is and there are no reviews apart from the vastly more expensive ones. I don't care what the shop staff says and until I see reviews from a reputable site that proves the opposite these are rubbish and to be avoided at all costs.
 
pastymuncher said:
Do you really expect a so called 500w semi modular psu costing under £37 to be any good? No, it's rubbish. If you click on the picture showing the side with the label you can see that it only has a pathetic 360w on it's very weak 12v rail. Underneath that it says recommended 24/7 power to be only 400w. It's garbage. Avoid Kolink altogether. There is practically no information on these psu's anywhere. Nobody knows who the oem is and there are no reviews apart from the vastly more expensive ones. I don't care what the shop staff says and until I see reviews from a reputable site that proves the opposite these are rubbish and to be avoided at all costs.
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Agreed no idea why OCUK sell these, it just tarnishes the name.
 
Cheers guys. It was put as a recommendation on another thread and thought it might suit my needs. I need something small (Physical) and ideally modular as my current one isnt and I cant get case side on without it bulging. If I dont have molex that should help.
 
This is going to up the budget a lot but you really should be looking at a quality psu. Something to consider about modular psu's is that it's all very well going for a 140mm long unit but that's just the physical size of the psu itself. You then have to factor in another 15-20mm for the connectors so before you know it your 140mm psu is taking up the space of a 155-160mm one and you may have been better off going for a short unit with fixed cables. The thing with that is that you need the space available to hide the cables. If space is such a issue it may be worth considering one of the excellent Corsair SFX units. Here is a selection for you to consider:-


Fixed cables

My basket at Overclockers UK:


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The two Superflower units are 150x86mm (WxH) and 145mm long and both have a 5 year warranty. Both are single 12v rail units with 546w available on the 12v rail.

The Antec is a Seasonic built unit with twin 12v rails allowing a total of 540w combined. It has a 5 year warranty and is 150x86mm (WxH) and 140mm long.


Modular

There are no instock, quality, fully modular psu's under 150mm long on OCUK.


SFX

My basket at Overclockers UK:


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The two Corsair built units are probably the best SFX units we have yet seen. They have been getting excellent reviews and are very quiet running. I listed the 450w unit because I reckon it would manage to power your pc if you are not heavily clocking it. I had a EVGA GTX780 FTW in this pc before the 1070 and the only time I hit 450w was when running Furmark and IBT both at the same time. Normal gaming use was up to 380w measured at the wall. Your 770 should draw even less power. They are both built by CWT and are both single 12v rail with the full 450w and 600w available on their respective 12v rails. Both have a 7 year warranty. Review of the 450w version here and the 600w version here.

The two Silverstone psu's only come with 3 year warranties which is pretty unusual for Gold rated units. The 500w is built by Sirtec and has a single 480w 12v rail while the 600w is built by Enhance Electronics and has a single 600w 12v rail. Review for the 500w here and the 600w here.

All of the above SFX psu's come with adaptors so that they can fit in a normal ATX psu position in a case.

One thing to take into account with SFX psu's is the cable length as they are usually fitted in smaller cases where only short cables are needed. All cable lengths are in the reviews so double check if they are long enough for your needs. If they are two short you can always use braided cable extensions to make them fit.
 
pastymuncher said:
Do you really expect a so called 500w semi modular psu costing under £37 to be any good? No, it's rubbish.
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you can get 500w and less units from good brands for under £40 semi mod or not, its just a case of looking, so bit of an ignorant statement ;).

only good thing ive seen from Kolink are certain cases look nice, but overall they seem just like Cit which their cases are not too bad and the psu's good enough for a none gaming simple movie watching/general system.
 
I can't believe you have the cheek to call me ignorant!! I am not the one always asking for help because they have bought yet another pile of rubbish. Stick your ;) as well.

Any semi-modular psu under £37 is going to be cheap and nasty with poor quality internals, it's the reason why they are so cheap. I didn't even mention non-modular so I don't know why you added that in. If you bothered to read on you will have seen that the Kolink he was looking at has a extremely weak 12v rail that is nowhere near the 500w it's supposed to be able to deliver. It even says on the label maximum 24/7 load 400w and that's the total across all the rails.

Yes you can get psu's below £40 from good brands but that doesn't mean that the psu's are any good. Even Seasonic have produced some awful budget psu's and I wouldn't touch the likes of Corsair's, EVGA's or XFX's budget offerings with a bargepole.
 
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pastymuncher said:
I can't believe you have the cheek to call me ignorant!! I am not the one always asking for help because they have bought yet another pile of rubbish. Stick your ;) as well.

Any semi-modular psu under £37 is going to be cheap and nasty with poor quality internals, it's the reason why they are so cheap. I didn't even mention non-modular so I don't know why you added that in. If you bothered to read on you will have seen that the Kolink he was looking at has a extremely weak 12v rail that is nowhere near the 500w it's supposed to be able to deliver. It even says on the label maximum 24/7 load 400w and that's the total across all the rails.

Yes you can get psu's below £40 from good brands but that doesn't mean that the psu's are any good. Even Seasonic have produced some awful budget psu's and I wouldn't touch the likes of Corsair's, EVGA's or XFX's budget offerings with a bargepole.
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The comment you made was ignorant because it was branding all 500w and below power supplies not yourself, cheap brand yes, but you can get some good deals on good brands though.

FYI I'm not always asking for help, I ask for advice, I make my own choices of what I spend my money on, just google has some okay results to my questions with some links from tomshardware dated back to like 2005 or however old the item I want info on is, I ask things on here for a more updated answe and not take the word of a 5 year old link. What I buy/look at might be rubbish to you with all your money and fanboy for new stuff, but I like and appreciate old tech till it's actually of no use ;).
 
I said nothing about wattage so get your facts right for a start. I drew a line at cost and the psu in question was a crap semi-modular psu pretending to be 500w for £37. As for good branded psu's under £40, just because a psu is from a good brand doesn't mean that the unit in question is actually any good. They are cheap for a reason which is most commonly that they have cheap, inferior internals. There is no getting around that fact, end of discussion.

There you go again with your smarmy winking smiley. I don't have loads of money at all. I actually get by on a pair of disability pensions from my time in the forces and make my money go as far as possible. I am hardly a new tech fan boy either. I am on a original Haswell build, and before that was on the 1156 platform with a i5 760. I never jump on new technology and buy when prices are at their best and then keep the same setup for around 3 years and sell before it becomes worthless. Shock horror, I even have a set of hi-fi seperates that include a turntable and tape to tape deck. I even have a VCR, 35mm film camera and a Hi8 camcorder so like to use certain old tech longer than most people would even consider.
 
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