What is the Best 600w + PSU?

Dashik · 18 Mar 2006 at 20:00

As per the title, I'll need a new psu very shortly so what is the best PSU? I currently have an exnermax and its been fine.

Running water cooling and crossfire with 4 HDD'd eventually.

Would also like to just use the minimum number of internal power cables so a modular one appeals!

Thanks

drunknmunky · 18 Mar 2006 at 20:05

Seasonic.....but seeing as you want a modular one... probably a Enermax Liberty.

ACESHIGH · 18 Mar 2006 at 21:07

Enermax Liberty 620W ELT620AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CA-024-EN)

Street · 18 Mar 2006 at 21:37

The way the cables are set out on the Liberty is slightly annoying I found. I ended up having to use all the cables because of how they were and my case became more cluttered despite the PSU being modular!

kimandsally · 18 Mar 2006 at 21:52

Enermax, Antec, FSP, and Akasa are all stonking PSU's, you'll notice I've missed a few the Tagens are OK when they work properly then you have hell on getting them RMA'd so avoid them I've had 3 VERY bad issues with them.

I forgot the Hiper's are also very good as are the OCZ's although OcUK have stopped selling them for some reason, my mate has a Hiper and I was blown away with the quality for the money Enermax are well good PSU's but rather bland compared but I've never had an issue with them I personally love my OCZ 600 it's noisier than some others but the rails don't move 0.01v from idle to full load measured with a digital multimeter and that is the best I've ever seen, incidently the Hiper does drop the 12v a bit but well within the ATX spec but the Tagen's go WAY out of spec when they go wrong I had a 580 that dropped the 12v down to 10.8v under load wouldn't buy another with someone elses money.

Sorry for rambling but I would hate you to have some of the rubbish I've copped for.

Dashik · 18 Mar 2006 at 23:35

Thanks for the reply's so far guys!

Jokester · 18 Mar 2006 at 23:48

I had chronic problems with a 600W OCZ Powerstream and SLI. Ended up getting a FSP Epsilon 700W and all was good. I've also seen other reports of similar underperforming by OCZ.

As such I can't recommend the Powerstream in a high end SLI/Crossfire setup.

Jokester

Conrad11 · 18 Mar 2006 at 23:53

Qtec and cut the wires you dont want....

/only joking....dont do that :|

fornowagain · 18 Mar 2006 at 23:58

Article maybe of some use. I can recommend the PCP&C PSU's expensive but very solid rails. <1% And the newer SLI version are reasonably quiet.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1932947,00.asp

Dashik · 9 Apr 2006 at 16:36

Thanks Guys.

In the end I went with the Enermax Liberty 620w. So far it seems fine. Cant hear it at all.

So I'm a happy bunny!

DazedNFuzed · 9 Apr 2006 at 17:14

I am also looking for the best PSU 600w or as close as possible, it must be as quiet as possible and i really like the idea of detachable cables to save on mess - always annoys me trying to tuck all cables behind the drive racks.

I was looking at the fooling PSU's:

Thermaltake PurePower 680W ATX2.0 Power Supply (W0049) (CA-021-TT) - states inteligant cables, i take it they can be detached?

Ultra X-Connect 500W ATX2.0 Cable Detachable PSU - Titanium with UV Blue (CA-005-UX) - these just look sweet.

Hiper HPU-4K580-MK Type R 580W Modular ATX2.2 PSU - Red UV (CA-008-HP)

All Views & comments welcome.

brightside_ · 9 Apr 2006 at 17:51

my mate asked me to reccomend a PSU for his w/c x2 rig, and i reccomended a Tagan. He bought a 530W modular Tagan. He runs his CPU @ 1.5V clocked to 2.5GHZ on each core. Has 3 HDDs, one Raptor, other 2 normal SATA. 7800GTX, X-Fi sound card and he's never had a problem.

So from that record I would reccomend a Tagan, I personally use a Hiper 580W Type R and although it's within ATX ranges, it's 12V rail wavers a heck of a lot so I probably won't buy another one!

Aidoscuz · 9 Apr 2006 at 19:20

DazedNFuzed said:
I am also looking for the best PSU 600w or as close as possible, it must be as quiet as possible and i really like the idea of detachable cables to save on mess - always annoys me trying to tuck all cables behind the drive racks.

I was looking at the fooling PSU's:

Thermaltake PurePower 680W ATX2.0 Power Supply (W0049) (CA-021-TT) - states inteligant cables, i take it they can be detached?

Ultra X-Connect 500W ATX2.0 Cable Detachable PSU - Titanium with UV Blue (CA-005-UX) - these just look sweet.

Hiper HPU-4K580-MK Type R 580W Modular ATX2.2 PSU - Red UV (CA-008-HP)

All Views & comments welcome.

I'd avoid the Ultra and Thermaltake models, neither of them have very good reputations in terms of PSUs. I think the Hiper is really good, it's quiet and has a really good modular cable system. Other good modulars are the Tagan TG580-U15 580W, the Enermax Liberty 620W and the Antec NeoHE 550W.