New PSU needed (read: desired)

Ease · 27 Feb 2015 at 09:56

I'm having a lot of stability issues recently, and I suspect they're all due to my ancient (~5 years old) PSU; a 700W OCZ. It's recently started restarting mid-gaming (5 minutes into Guild Wars 2, 10 minutes into Skyrim) and occasionally restarting whilst I'm just browsing! I've also had a string of HDD issues, with them disappearing and appearing, and requiring disconnect/reconnects to get them back again.

I used the http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp calculator, which recommended 533W. As I'm planning to upgrade to an i7 in a few months, I thought I would try to future-proof this purchase a little, by aiming for 650W-750W.

Also, I have the Thermaltake HAF 932, which is huge, and currently have to stretch my power cables to their limit to reach the CPU power input at the top of the motherboard.

I'm currently looking at this : http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-044-SS&tool=3
I don't want to cheap out, but I'm moving house within the month, so I also have to be budget concious. Would love any advice you all can spare me!

sweols · 27 Feb 2015 at 10:11

I was recommended evga supernova g2 750w.. it was on offer but that seem to have expired... sorry

MrMD · 27 Feb 2015 at 13:06

The seasonic listed would be fine.If you want to keep cost down you could get this

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1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £59.99
Total : £69.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Its a quality power supply,its not modular tho.Its also only 550w, but that would still be more than enough to power an I7/280x rig

pastymuncher · 27 Feb 2015 at 14:39

I wouldn't buy the Seasonic. We have had several reports of the fan on that series being very noisy.

The Superflower suggseted above is enough for most single gpu systems and is a jigh quality unit. I can't help but feel it's overpriced for a mid wattage psu that isn't even semi modular, especially as it was £49.99 last week when it was on offer.

The Antec Truepower Classic psu's are very good. Unfortunately they are not modular but they are high quality Gold rated units built by Seasonic. The 650w is on offer this week at £60.95 while the 750w is £72.95.

One thing I have noticed is that none of the Superflowers are on this week only at the moment. If you can wait for the new deals on Wednesday some of them will probably be on offer. They usually are every other week.