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QlimaxUK said:
says OcUK, so that would be oc own branded? which means good?
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um...nothing against OCUK, but anything that needs to branded against the shop/store usually gets minus marks from me.

if its good enough to make its good enough to matket under your own name.

still i've not checked it out, certianly sounds impressive :)
 
best to check around reviews, i think someone did post a review of the huntkey psu somewhere.

as for recommendations, iv stopped recommending particular psu's to people, all i can say is go with reviews from hardocp and jonnyguru since thier testing methodology for psus is the best iv ever come across.

reason i stopped recommending X brand psus to people is because mats corsair 520w just died on him and he is gutted now since i was the one who recommended it to him. hence i hear the flack for it. although its under warranty and it took out none of his other components its still not worth recommending such an item these days since it can go either way.
 
so corsair's aint perfect then.

iv had psu's fail on me b4 now but only cuz it was summot crazy like 5 years+ old lol, this was a really old pc, another one i had in an even older system failed, but the next day i switched it on and it worked again (weird), sold that pc lol
another time i blew a new one but that was my fault (wrong voltage setting ooops) ill never do that again :), good thing tho, didnt effect the components i had at the time
 
Huntkey are a chineese OEM who have been running for 8 years now apparently. First time I've hear of them though.

Seasonic for example have been designing and building hardware since 1975, so they are a very well established manufacturer.

Some brands you can just never tell, turns out for example, that Hiper were selling a slightly modified 350W PSU, and claiming it was able to deliver 480W. On the face of it hiper dont appear to be a 'bad' company, but in the face of recent evidence, they certainly have cut corners in the past.

All brands of PSU's will have some blow up from time to time, one of the biggest differences being how much protection the PSU offers the hardware its powering when its time to pop comes around. (Not saying ALL psu's are bombs waiting to go off, simply that no matter how good a PSU is, a certain number will fail, some with a fizz, and others with an almighty bang)
 
that antec brand has been round a while i think im using a 300w one of thers in this pc i got now (that iv had for just over 1 year)
 
Like i told you earlier, Antec is a good brand but 300w is not enough for your rig. The corsair VX450 is cheaper than a comparative Antec. It is also only £6 cheaper than the OCUK Huntkey jobby.

Personally i think you are taking the mick now. There are loads of good post's on here telling you the truth about cheapo power supplies and you are simply not listening. There's even a link to Jonnyguru's website where he tests cheapo psu's and most of them fail or blow up. If you want to go ahead and skimp on the most important piece of your pc then go ahead. Just don't come crying on here when it blows up and takes the rest of your pc with it.
 
no manufacterer is perfect. what you get with a brand recognised for quality it a level of comfort that the goods are of a higher standard then generic oem products.
 
ok mayb i missed a few posts thers so many, very confusing for me, too many different opinions that clash :(

someone saw antec as one of the cheapo ones in 1 of these posts
 
go for the cosair, its a big brand and of high quality its less risky and at the end of the day the psu powers everything else
 
ok thinkin bout goin for cosair (since iv trimmed over £50 off my list so far) thanks to both ppl in this thread and others :)
 
ok lol cosair it is
i feel the ammount of times iv heard cosair on this thread if i dont buy one ill have the 'heavys' knockin at my door hired by cosair 'kindly' askin my y i didnt choose cosair LOL :D
 
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ok my latest list, look good?
 
For the love of god please use all keys on your keyboard, you're not limited to 160 characters on this forum. You make yourself look like a pleb using txt ***.
 
I said he should get the 450w ocuk psu because hes on a tight budget and it allows him to get a better gfx. People instantly say corsair 520w to ever post but he doesn't need 520ws.

I beleive the ocuk 420w is up to the job. I dont know much about their reliability though but his budget would be streched a lot on a corsair one. If he wants to strech getting a 520w would allow him to upgrade in the furture.

If you can strech get the 520w and you will be set to upgrade to a 8800 GTS or GTX later if you wanted too.
 
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8igdave said:
I said he should get the 450w ocuk psu because hes on a tight budget and it allows him to get a better gfx. People instantly say corsair 520w to ever post but he doesn't need 520ws.

I beleive the ocuk 420w is up to the job. I dont know much about their reliability though but his budget would be streched a lot on a corsair one. If he wants to strech getting a 520w would allow him to upgrade in the furture.

If you can strech get the 520w and you will be set to upgrade to a 8800 GTS or GTX later if you wanted too.
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I said Corsair VX 450w back in post #5. It's only £6 more expensive than the OCUK 500w that he suggested earlier. Made by Seasonic and with a 5yr warranty you can't really go wrong.
 
i was trying to shave the money off as its more then 6 quid off the 450.


It also appears he has changed his ideas of what spec to get when i check back his first post in here so i gues it doesn't apply now anyway.
 
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