PSU advice needed!

gropingmantis

gropingmantis

gropingmantis

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I am torn between two PSUs

Basically I am looking for a high efficiency (80+ Gold rating) 600W+ PSU but it has to be 150mm x 86mm x 140mm.

So I have narrowed it down to these two:
FSP Aurum Gold 600W
OR
Be Quiet BN188 600W

The thing that is troubling me is I don't know much about Be Quiet, I cant find any reviews and it is about 2/3 the price of the FSP.

So my question is: Is the Be Quiet any good? Is the fan quiet? Will it put out anywhere near the rated power? Is it a rebrand of another PSU?

There are plenty of reviews of the FSP around and the only really bad thing about it is the noisy fan which can be easily fixed but if the Be Quiet is as good or better at 2/3 the price then I want to know so I can save some money.
 
gropingmantis said:
Any specific knowledge on this particular PSU. I was a bit worried when I went on the Be Quiet and this PSU was in "Other Products" rather than the PSU section of the website.
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Same here - I also seriously considered this PSU but the doubts and lack of information and reviews made me go for something else. From what I saw though, I think it might be quite a new PSU - released in the last few months. The 80+ Gold rating was incredibly tempting, but in the end I just didn't know enough about this to buy it. I bought an Antec TruePower New Modular 550W 80+ Bronze. It has had superb reviews and it was at least a known quantity as the saying goes.
 
Wiry said:
Have you looked at these ?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-048-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1084

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-118-AN&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1088

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-057-OC&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1098
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Yes and the Antec is too large. I normally go with Corsair PSUs but they only do their builder series in 150x86x140mm but none of them are 80+ Gold and why would I pick them over an 80+ Gold PSU if the quality of the Gold PSUs are as good.

The trouble at the moment is trying to work out if the cheaper Be Quiet PSU is as good as the FSP PSU as FSP make really good PSUs and provide many to other companies for rebranding, much like Seasonic but why for out even more for the FSP is the Be Quiet is better. As I said I have been looking in to this for quite some time and was about to pull the trigger on the FSP when I noticed the Be Quiet.
 
We've heard of it, but there are no reviews on the internet of that specific PSU. But given their good reputation, it is worth a punt.
 
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