ORYXX PSU ??

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I want a new PSU and found an ORYXX 750Watt or 800Watt as an ideal chioce, not heard a lot about them but they fall into my £50 budget, any knowledge on these anyone??
Cheers Tony
 
I wouldn't recommend you get one, I would suggest the OCZ Stealth 700w or the Mod OCZ 700w - best price with a trusted PSU for 700w your gunna get.
 
Would agree with Ace,do not be tempted by unknown brands, might look good but when it blows and takes half your rig with it you will wish you spent the extra £20 or so.
 
Thats a worry re failures.... trouble is money running out after re build so I am looking at 50 to 60 max, I thought my 550W a few year old now was going to get me through after the GTX260 was fitted, however I noticed in COD4 last night it paused a few times.....hence 700/800W PSU thoughts..
 
Power supplies is the one area that you simply do not skimp on. Yes, you might get away with it, but why take the risk? 9 times out of 10, a cheap PSU will never even reach its stated output anyway.
 
Well guys I am convinced!!! I found this one that was mentioned 700W OCZ ModXStream Pro Modular Power Supply for £64 I thought the Corsair was not so good as it has only one 12v rail, I have seen some with 4 12v rails...is that of any use??
 
I had an Oryxx Titan 850w PSU which was ok as far as I can remember. Worked in my rig for about 6 month when I swapped it for a thermaltake toughpower 800w with a mate. Which was nothing but trouble...

However, don't skimp on a PSU. Should anything go wrong with your Oryxx bargin it's likely tpo take other nice expensive bits with it.
 
System is
AMD Phenom II X2 550 (4 cores) 3.10GHz @ 3.60GHz
Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P Motherboard
Corsair Dominator 4GB DDR3 XMS3 PC2-1600C9 Ram
Gainward GTX 260 896MB GS 55nm 2200MHz GPU 625 MHz 216 Cores
3x SATA hard drives
Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro CPU Cooler
 
Thanks for the replies so far very much appreciated.
Ok took the case cover off the PC and this is what I have at the moment for a PSU, its about 3 years old


HEC-550TD-PTE
AC input: 230Vac 50Hz 7A
DC Output/Max. A:
+3.3V/30A
+5V/38A
+12V1/18A
+12V2/17A
-12V/0.3A
+5Vsb/2A

+5V&+3.3V Combined 185W

Total Output: 550W

Now the question...should this run my set up ok??

AMD Phenom II X2 550 (4 cores) 3.10GHz @ 3.60GHz
Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P Motherboard
Corsair Dominator 4GB DDR3 XMS3 PC2-1600C9 Ram
Gainward GTX 260 896MB GS 55nm 2200MHz GPU 625 MHz 216 Cores
3x SATA hard drives
Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro CPU Cooler
DVD/RW
DVD
 
You want a single 12V rail, that's a good thing. The ocz recommended above is very good and surprisingly cheap. Otherwise corsair/be quiet/seasonic don't mess about with these.

A cheap psu marks a £30 saving right up to the point where it destroys your motherboard, ram, processor and graphics card. Then it looks like less of a bargain.
 
I think dual rail is the sweet spot, but it really doesn't make much difference either way. It's probably just a split single rail anyway.

I'm not to fond of OCZ, but people here seem to like them...
 
Your current psu should be enough:

I run my pc off a 3 year old Akasa powerplus 550w:

Q6700 @ 3.2ghz
6GB ddr2 ram ( 2x1 and 2x2 gb)
6 HDD's
DVD burner
GTX260 216sp EVGA SSC edition ( 17% overclock over stock, double the overclock over stock than your gtx260)
Audigy 2ZS
Lots of USB crap.
4 120mm Fans...
 
Thanks for the info Snowdog, maybe my stuttering COD4 is driver related then?? I use the older 1.86 or something Nvidia drivers
 
Could be anything, but psu problems usually cause reboots or occasionally BSOD's and processing errors...

Have you tried it on a clean install, make sure it's not an app causing problems ?
Anything eating RAM ?
Fragmented HDD ?
 
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