Understanding psu reviews

Elma

Elma

Elma

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I have been reading PSU reviews for a while and find it a bit of a grey area. From what i know so far genaral opinon is a good make is a lot better than the cheapo versions and you need to leave your psu with some room to breath. But as some manufactures over quote and some under quote it makes choosing more difficult .money is tight atm for me so i have to get the best value i can i choose a corsair vx 450 underneath is a review post with results from using radeon XTX 1900 in crossfire saying its stable so should i assume i could use pretty much any single slot card in my pc say gtx 285

q6600 go stepping stock speed
2 sticks of ram
one hard drive
one dvd writer

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Corsair/VX_450W/4.html
 
I'd get the VX550.

I had a cheapo CoolerMaster M620 with a overclocked Xeon E3110, a HD4870 4HDs (2x RAPTOR!) and that ran fine. 450 might be a little on the low side though.
 
already got my vx450 and overclocking might be done in the future but would only be a mild overclock what temps are ok for q6600
 
I have the Corsair VX 450 and currently it is powering a Q9550 @ 4.0GHz on a Gigabyte EP45 UD3P, 4GBs ram, 3 HDDS, Zotac GTX275, 2 TV cards and a number of case fans...

jonnyGuru does a decent review of that PSU...
 
Spec in sig pulls 270w at gaming load from my 520w Corsair, you'd be surprised how much a good 450w could power.
 
The 450W corsair is a very good very honest PSU, and it will power a boatload and still keep good voltages/regulation on all rails :) It will handle some overclocking on your system without any trouble.
 
i was looking at overclockers news and they have a gtx 280 sc for 160 plus postage you guys think it would be ok
 
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