PSU Single rail recommendation

BassJunkie

BassJunkie

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Hey all

I cant seem to find any single rail PSU's for sale.

Anyways my problem is a work problem...

Our test areas are rammed to there limit with electrical hardware.. mostly PCs all plugs are taken up, as far as i remember we was told where at out power limit, anyways in the last year ive had so many multiple railed power supply's die on me, mostly the enermax noise taker 600Watt 1 was a thermaltake pure power 680 and the rest have been antec true power 550Watts..

Now not one single PSU that has a single 12v rail has died.. not a single one, after reading so much about the vs war I'm more and more thinking its something to do with the PSUs not liking our power supply network?

So yes I'm looking for at least 650 watt single rail PSUs.

I'm still using my 6 year old single rail enermax and it powers whats in my sig.. never had a single problem.

Cheers peeps.
 
I think I read somewhere that the Corsair power supplies are actually single rail. You might want to wait for someone to confirm this however.
 
Had a read of that review and another, this was on there.

(Corsair also claims that each of the +12v rails are able to share power, thus meaning that if any one of the 3 rails becomes overloaded, one of the other rails will be able to assist.)

That seems cool but surly other company's mainly like the great enermax should be doing this allrdy? i need to do more reading because I'm still unsure, don't want to buy 10 PSUs and watch them blow in a few months :) Tho yes I'm still unsure if this is really the problem, just trying to work out why my good PSUs just die, its as simple as moving the pc from one side of the office to the other side.. then the PC wount power up ever again even tho theres power going to the mobo.. this is only sometimes tho that ive seen the mobo light on.
 
The Corsair 620w is essentially a single-rail PSU in terms of funcitonality... it's three rails distribute power as and when needed, the power is not confined to each single rail as with many multi-rail PSU's.

Hence why I have bought a Corsair 620w. :)
 
Ok sweet.. after i got another Tech friend to explain to me what u said in drawing form lol i understand and I'm learning towards getting some of these for my work.

Thanks for all your help people.

Still have more reading to do yet :)
 
I'd be thinking more along the lines of installing surge protectors then trying to deal with it by trying to get a PSU that hopefully won't blow.
 
Bit late of a reply but anyways

Firstly I did look into this because yeh it’s the thing you get the power from :P so let me continue.

Well the socket we use are between 4 and 6 socket plugs that should be all surge protected, the other thing is these plug sockets are done by the building maintenance and were unable to change upgrade swap or what ever to them. so me as the tech is doing what I can to stop my PCs from dying.. the company is moving buildings in august so convincing maintenance to change every socket won’t happen.. we test games we have 8 plug socket per 1 desk :) I think looking into the PSU side is the first place to start for me as the Tech

Any thing else you would like to know?

QA Tech Some Gaming Company.
 
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Oh I see, sort of same prob in my building but we can call the maint guys in to have a look.

If you're going to order a gaggle of Corsair PSUs you couldn't add 1 onto the order for me could you :D
 
Richdog said:
The Corsair 620w is essentially a single-rail PSU in terms of funcitonality... it's three rails distribute power as and when needed, the power is not confined to each single rail as with many multi-rail PSU's.

Hence why I have bought a Corsair 620w. :)
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Are the 520W ones just as good bar the less power.
 
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