Puzzled By PSU's

You only need a good and efficient 500w psu to power the current GTX with a q6600 and all the other bells and wistles. With the new one being a smaller die. Why get 700w? Also think to your self. if a psu has more Watts but is cheaper then one with less watts. Ask your self this question. Why does the one with less watts cost more?
 
Well fair enough, I don't really want 700w, but Thermaltake, only makes 700 modular.

I really want to go with the Corsair, the fact that it is 520w concern me really. Doubt I can get the 620w.
 
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rEeee said:
Well fair enough, I don't really want 700w, but Thermaltake, only makes 700 modular.

I really want to go with the Corsair, the fact that it is 520w concern me really. Doubt I can get the 620w.
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You would really pick a TT psu over a Corsair? :eek::p
 
Ok, I give up, I am going with the Crosair 520w, if I want the 620w, I will have to drop the DVD-RW, lol. LIMITED budged all the way.
 
specs wise the 520w corsair has nearly 500w of its power available on the 12v rails. thats plenty of power even for your system. and going by your sig if you get the newer 65nm 8800 card then your power consumption will be lucky if it even breaks 300w full load.
 
You need to read the smallprint on a lot of psus these days, ownership seems to chop and change as often as englands starting 11, pc p&c was outsourced to Seasonic now it is OCZ.
I heard the VX series corsairs aren't seasonic now too.

It's quite simple if you don't plan on SLI and budget is tight get the corsair hx520 it really is a cracking little PSU with features and build quality nothing else gets near to at that price not to mention it's almost silent operation.I was always an enermax owner but got a corsair early this year couldn't be happier and it has a 5 year warranty can't really beat it.

Google "power meter pc tests" and take a look if you are worried, here is an example.

because i was curious on my power usage with my pcs and was pretty amazed at it

e6600 @ 3.8ghz w/ 8800gtx @ 675/1050, 150gb raptor, sblive, corsiar 620w = 340 under fullload (3dmark)

e6300 @ 2.5ghz w/ onboard x700, 8x750gb wd, 2x 500gb seagate, xfi extreme music, areca 12-20 raid card, Thermaltake 750w psu = 320w under full load (copying files+3dmark)

was rather intereseting
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Just to clarify for anyone who was wondering, and to make up for some of the misinformation early in the thread:

VX450 = Seasonic
VX550 = CWT
HX520 = Seasonic
HX620 = Seasonic
TX650 = Seasonic
TX750 = CWT

Corsairs aren't "knock-off" Seasonics (for that you want to look at the Antec Earthwatts and Truepower Trio lines which most definitely use slightly inferior internals), they use equally high quality internal components and design. Those models built for them by CWT also maintain that very high standard.

C64 said:
You need to read the smallprint on a lot of psus these days, ownership seems to chop and change as often as englands starting 11, pc p&c was outsourced to Seasonic now it is OCZ.
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That's wrong as well. OCZ own PCP&C but have yet to make any changes in terms of how they build and design units. The Silencers still come from Seasonic and Wintact still build their Turbocools.
 
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I did think that but was shouted down on here and told they are made by OCZ now.
Oh and i am sure they notify google as soon as they do make any changes.
 
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