Puzzled By PSU's

Xinn · 20 Oct 2007 at 22:29

Payday next week and its enough to get the upgrade ball rolling but stuck as to which power supply to go for.

Was looking at a 620W Corsair but it seems a few Corsair PSU's have been blowing up lately so that's put me off, so was looking towards Enermax or Seasonic again.

It will eventually be powering Q6600 (@ 3.2), 4Gig Ram, 8800GTX, 2 HDD, 1 Optical Drive.

mk17 · 20 Oct 2007 at 22:53

Corsair 520 or 620 will do you very nicely, don't worry about the recent posts - the number of people driving these lately, there's bound to be a few failures. Afaik, its a rebadged seasonic anyway.

MumboJumbo · 20 Oct 2007 at 22:54

They arn;t made by seasonic anymore. And why do you think seasonics are more expensive yet corsair have more expensive calipers etc.

Deleted User 234324 · 20 Oct 2007 at 23:20

As mentioned above the corsair 620 will be more than enough, unless you plan on using SLI 8800gtx's in the future.

Setup you have listed their will use ~420 watts at full load so plenty of leg room left. Would need 750-800 if you plan on SLI at all.

Cyber-Mav · 20 Oct 2007 at 23:27

i agree with dave above, corsair can;t just be selling rebadged seasonic psus at a lower price than what seasonic sell thier own psus at. if that were the case corsair would be making a loss on each psu. something has to be cut out to make the corsair psus cheaper, and it looks like the reliability is whats taking the toll.
many failures on this forum alone reported, and borwsing other forums there are more complaints about them too.

mk17 · 20 Oct 2007 at 23:37

8igdave said:
They arn;t made by seasonic anymore. And why do you think seasonics are more expensive yet corsair have more expensive calipers etc.

Seasonic doesn't make the 520/620's any more? Can you provide a link?

And, fwiw, no-one in post 1 or 2 mentioned expense mate.

MumboJumbo · 20 Oct 2007 at 23:38

Serposidly they switched when they brought out the 450w

rEeee · 20 Oct 2007 at 23:41

I am going with the Thermaltake Toughpower 700w, it's modular and ONLY £70. Read good reviews about it.

WarBird · 21 Oct 2007 at 00:13

MadMossy said:
Would need 750-800 if you plan on SLI at all.

are you serious?
many people on these forums are running sli gtx ultras on 620W, you could do it on 520 i'm pretty sure

MumboJumbo · 21 Oct 2007 at 00:21

620w yes but not a 520w i dont think so. Not worth putting that much strain on the psu if it is possible at all.

Xinn · 21 Oct 2007 at 00:25

What would people recommend then apart from the Corsairs? Looking at £120 max cost.

rEeee · 21 Oct 2007 at 00:25

rEeee said:
I am going with the Thermaltake Toughpower 700w, it's modular and ONLY £70. Read good reviews about it.

What do you guys think of this one?

MumboJumbo · 21 Oct 2007 at 00:27

seasonic if youve got 120max. Get the 600w with modular cables. You wont need a new psu again unless graphics cards all of a sudden need a hell of a lot more juice. I believe you could run sli off that.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-006-SS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=589

On a cheaper not the enermax psu's are also very good and the 535w one looks good but is quite cheap for some reason?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-023-EN

Mekrel · 21 Oct 2007 at 00:32

The tough power units are not that great, I think only the 1000W units are recommended. You really cant go wrong with a Olympia/Decathlon 650/750w unit though from Silverstone but make sure you get a Rev 2.5

Kobrakai · 21 Oct 2007 at 00:41

Can’t go wrong with anything Enermax or Seasonic. I have an Enermax Infiniti 720W and its great!

Cyber-Mav · 21 Oct 2007 at 00:46

as above the enermax infiniti 650w or above units seem like a best bet.

james.miller · 21 Oct 2007 at 00:49

8igdave said:
620w yes but not a 520w i dont think so. Not worth putting that much strain on the psu if it is possible at all.

seasonic make both the 520w and 620w HX series. its the VX and Tx that are made by another company.

Cyber-Mav said:
i agree with dave above, corsair can;t just be selling rebadged seasonic psus at a lower price than what seasonic sell thier own psus at. if that were the case corsair would be making a loss on each psu. something has to be cut out to make the corsair psus cheaper, and it looks like the reliability is whats taking the toll.
many failures on this forum alone reported, and borwsing other forums there are more complaints about them too.

totally over exagurated. have you looked inside the psu's? they are seasonics.

Cyber-Mav · 21 Oct 2007 at 01:03

james.miller said:
seasonic make both the 520w and 620w HX series. its the VX and Tx that are made by another company.

totally over exagurated. have you looked inside the psu's? they are seasonics.

why is it that i wonder if they had the seasonic sticker on them they would not be failing as much with the corsair stickers on them? me thinks seasonic is offloading all its leftover stock to build psus for corsair.

not sure what sort of business seasonic would be running if they made psus the same quality as thier own but slapped on corsair stickers and sold them at a cheaper price than seasonic branded stuff.

all these reports of corsair failures are not damaging seasonics reputation since the seasonic stickers are not on the psu.
thing is there are a few failures on this forum, but scouring the net looking on other forums such as hardocp, anandtech, XS etc also have reports of corsair failures.

worst part about it is that i got 2 corsair psus and now im wondering if thier ticking time bombs.

Kobrakai · 21 Oct 2007 at 01:05

Cyber-Mav said:
not sure what sort of business seasonic would be running if they made psus the same quality as thier own but slapped on corsair stickers and sold them at a cheaper price than seasonic branded stuff.

Seasonic charge extra for the brand name. In reality its more like Corsair are selling them for the proper price and the Seasonics are overpriced.

loltim · 21 Oct 2007 at 01:08

I'd normally only recommend Enermax and PC Power & Cooling, but now it seems PCP&C are OCZ... get an Enermax.