What PSU these days?

rexehuk

rexehuk

rexehuk

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Hey guys,

Been out of the market for a while... And it's a sad day. Just built new rig and reused my Tagan 800 bz which was the bees knees a few years ago...

The old machine kept disconnecting drives and acting weird. Today in BIOS I noticed 12v rail firing out 11.2v and thought hmm.

Loe and behold, new rig just turned off while gaming and triggered surge protection on motherboard... Alas the beast is gone.

Who am I looking at these days for reliable power supplies? I have 800w now, but looking to run 4790k, 980ti and 6 hard drives.
 
Quite surprised looks like everyones died since last time I bought PSU... Enermax, Tagan etc all vanished.

I've done some load testing this morning with HWMonitor... and think my worries are now verified

5V Rail - Min 4.680 / Max 5.080
3.3V Rail - Min 3.328 / Max 3.344
12V Rail - Min 10.848 / Max 12.096
VIN3 - Min 0.832 / Max 0.856
VIN4 - Min 0.016 / Max 1.312

CPU Temp Max - 73C
GPU Temp Max - 79C

Not worried about CPU temp, using intel stock cooler at the moment, thought my 620 Kuhler would work but don't have the brackets, so getting replacement over.
 
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pastymuncher said:
Software is not very accurate when it comes to voltages but that doesn't look too good. A multimeter is the best way to test.

A 650w psu is more than capable of powering your pc even allowing for overclocks I doubt if you would pull much more than 400-420w at the wall. Have a look at these:-
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Yeah more than know about software, unfortunately my multi meter is back in London. I've got a Z97-A which has specific tools for drawing voltages etc, which gives me confidence perhaps these values are close to real, additionally in BIOS the 12v rail is sitting at ~11.6 which is worryingly close to the 5% standard.

I think I'm going to grab this - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/evga...plus-gold-modular-power-supply-ca-012-ea.html

10 year warranty is fab, and likelihood is that it will die within that period, so it's basically buy once deal.

Big shame because the Tagan BW800W was a really nice PSU, cables a bit bulky though!
 
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