Power supply recommendations, any good ones.

johhnn

johhnn

johhnn

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Hi And thanks for reading.

I have been using a corsair rm650x for a while, then i upgraded to a corsair hx1000i. Immediatly upon boot up i noticed the desktop looked cleaner and clearer, the audio sounded more detailed less distortion, the hx seems superior to the rmx, the pc is working better.
So now i want to upgrade again and am thinking of the corasair ax series which appears to be corsairs best. Am torn between the ax or any high-end seagate offering.
What would you do. Do you think the ax is a good power supply in its own right, and me chasing after psu with better specs is a waste of time as there may be little improvement, or do you think the opposite.
Also, which would you say are the best seagate power supplies.
For the pc i have an H170I-PRO motherboard mini atx motherboard, 16gb generic ddr4 ram and a soundblaster ae-9 soundcard. Power consumption is about 300 watts.

Thanks
 
Thanks for the replies, much appreciated.

The consensus indicates the hxi is a decent supply and i should keep that,
Seasonic are saying their prime titanium series are the best psu's and are charging over £300 for these. What is the big deal, what do they give for charging this much money. Just intrested trying to find out, because it puzzles me the hxi i paid for was twice the price of my rmx. What do manufacturers give by charging all this extra money, because as your replies suggested i should not see much of an improvement when comparing the hxi versus rmx, so why charge twice the price for such little improvement in ripple, noise, performance, stability, - apart from the higher power of the hxi
 
Thanks. As you rightly say they charge extra for the brand recognition, so is it possible to buy a good quality power supply at a cheaper price rather than having to pay double because it has a corsair sticker on it. If so which psu would you recommend.
Thanks
 
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