New PSU, Upgrade too

nevyn · 27 Oct 2006 at 14:09

Just thought I would add my experience

I bought a truepower PSU a couple or 3 years ago for my oc'd P4
I never really stressed it but it just died about 14 months in so I don't trust them for reliability

I can rate Sparkle these are the manufacturer of choice for Compack PC's and those things just go forever

I am considering the Seasonic for my new machine want quiet and reliable
anyone here rate them ?

Nevyn

R3323 · 27 Oct 2006 at 15:17

I have a Sesonic S12 500W and its great totaly silent, but i dont know about reliability as i have only had mine about 3 month.
From what i have heard they are very reliable though.

locutus12 · 27 Oct 2006 at 16:21

Matrix said:
I do already own a Enermax 380W ( well i think is ) 5 years old now.
But i will have about 4 SATA hard drives running on it

??? and

you could still run that entire system plus 4 sata drives off 400 watts easily,

my system:

X1900XT512mb
opteron 148 clocked to 2.9Ghz 1.45v
2 gig corsair XMS over volted
Asrock dual 939 mobo
1 SATA raptor drive
1 SATA seagate barracuda
1 IDE seagate barracuda
2 X opticle drives
4 usb devices
lights
water cooling pumps
2 x 120mm fans

PSU = 400 watt akasa pax power. not a problem.

Matrix · 27 Oct 2006 at 16:26

locutus12 said:
??? and you could still run that entire system plus 4 sata drives off 400 watts easily,

my system:

X1900XT512mb
opteron 148 clocked to 2.9Ghz 1.45v
2 gig corsair XMS over volted
Asrock dual 939 mobo
1 SATA raptor drive
1 SATA seagate barracuda
1 IDE seagate barracuda
2 X opticle drives
4 usb devices
lights
water cooling pumps
2 x 120mm fans

PSU = 400 watt akasa pax power. not a problem.

I was kind of thinking future proof really i guess mate?
You think it's not worth it then?

also would i notice much of a difference between
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400DC) (MY-063-GL) ( which is out of stock at the moment)

And

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB5300DC) (MY-034-GL)

Thanks.

locutus12 · 27 Oct 2006 at 16:34

Matrix said:
I was kind of thinking future proof really i guess mate?
You think it's not worth it then?

well it all depends, you have to remember 2 things, first off, the theory that "i can buy a huge psu to last me 5 years" is frankly wrong as the older they get the less efficient they are, and thus the worse they perform, secondly psu formats are changing all the time, many people have been spending £70 on a psu only to find a newer models come out with some extra features which are now being used as standard within just a couple of weeks.

then there seems to be allot of these "max" psu`s going around... i.e. they will do 580 watts "max" but not for a sustained period... sounds like a rip off to me.

basically all im saying is, think about what you want your psu to do now, think about what youl want it to do in 12 months, use the psu calculator link i posted earlier to give you an estimate of the wattage you need for now and later and buy accordingly.

but don't by into the hype that just because you have a modern computer and a few hard drives that you instantly need a 500 to 600 watt psu to run it.

Matrix · 27 Oct 2006 at 16:36

locutus12 said:
well it all depends, you have to remember 2 things, first off, the theory that "i can buy a huge psu to last me 5 years" is frankly wrong as the older they get the less efficient they are, and thus the worse they perform, secondly psu formats are changing all the time, many people have been spending £70 on a psu only to find a newer models come out with some extra features which are now being used as standard within just a couple of weeks.

then there seems to be allot of these "max" psu`s going around... i.e. they will do 580 watts "max" but not for a sustained period... sounds like a rip off to me.

basically all im saying is, think about what you want your psu to do now, think about what youl want it to do in 12 months, use the psu calculator link i posted earlier to give you an estimate of the wattage you need for now and later and buy accordingly.

but don't by into the hype that just because you have a modern computer and a few hard drives that you instantly need a 500 to 600 watt psu to run it.

Yeah fair point thanks for poitning that out.

locutus12 · 27 Oct 2006 at 16:39

Matrix said:
Yeah fair point thanks for poitning that out.

anytime

p.s. wait for the pc6400 geils.... far far quicker, im building a system with them in right now

Matrix · 27 Oct 2006 at 16:40

locutus12 said:
anytime

p.s. wait for the pc6400 geils.... far far quicker, im building a system with them in right now

Ah ok , Just posted a question about that in the memory forum