Which PSU? ~£100

Ucof · 23 May 2009 at 09:53

Morning all, happy bank holiday weekend!

My dad has given me an advance on my birthday present and is putting £100 quid into my bank account so I can get a decent PSU.

So I have about £100 to spend, give or take a little of my own money.

Which PSU can you recommend?

I want a modular one, quiet too and as high a Wattage rating as possible so I can upgrade my PC with ease in the future.

Which do you think would be best?

Thanks in advance.

Plec · 23 May 2009 at 10:17

BeQuiet, Corsair and PC Power and cooling are good, reliable and quiet makes. (The PC Power being the cheapest option)

BeQuiet - is my personal favourite - but you may have to compromise on wattage,using this brand, with your budget. (unless you could stretch an extra £10 or so)

Audigex · 23 May 2009 at 10:18

For £100 you can get a lot of watts... but at the same time it might be useless in the future; there's no guarantee that the PSU you buy now will have the connectors you need later.

What do you actually want to run on it, then add a little extra to allow for extra fans, hard drives and a GPU upgrade.

Razor-BladE · 23 May 2009 at 10:33

Best thing for us to choose is if you tell us your specs, and what you intend to upgrade in the future, and how often you upgrade.

Razor-BladE · 23 May 2009 at 10:39

But generally these are the better one for around that price or under:
Corsair HX 620w, Be Quiet 650w, Be Quiet 750w and OCZ ModXStream which is cheapest but not as good quality as the others, but sill really good quality.

Kennysevenfold · 23 May 2009 at 10:42

+1 for the beQuiet 650w

jbloggs · 23 May 2009 at 11:02

Kennysevenfold said:
+1 for the beQuiet 650w

Ditto...

Sasahara · 23 May 2009 at 11:35

We need to know what power requirement you need tbf.

beQuiet is probably the best make you can get for under £100 on oc.

They've only been active in the UK market place a short while so it's hard to tell how reliable they are. Not heard anyone with problems so far.
They are well established in their home country Germany and they are the #1 premium PSU seller in that market.

If you want to be a bit more prudent with you money, but still want quality I think these to options are the best from OC.

PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610 £67.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-002-PP

Need more juice.

PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad-Crossfire 750W £89.99
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-165-OK

BlackDragon · 23 May 2009 at 11:39

A vote for Corsair from me. I have a Corsair 620W and it is very good.

Ucof · 23 May 2009 at 21:19

As always, good advice, thanks all.

My specs are as follows:

Mobo - Asus A8N - SLI SE
Cpu - AMD 4400+ x2
GPU - Sapphire ATI 4870 1gb
RAM - 4gb
Hard drives - 3x IDE 1xSata (and an IDE DVD rewriter)
Sound card - Sound Blaster 5.1 Live! PCI

and 4 fans in the case.

Looks like the BeQuiet 650w is coming out on top so far.

As for upgrades, I'll be going for a new Mobo and CPU (and thus RAM

), AMD something with either a Gigabyte or an Asus board. Don't know what it will be yet so I can't tell you for sure.
Hope this helps, keep the suggestions coming!

Will be buying in 3 days when I get the free shipping

rowannew · 23 May 2009 at 21:24

Kennysevenfold said:
+1 for the beQuiet 650w

+1

icey_haj · 23 May 2009 at 21:32

Kennysevenfold said:
+1 for the beQuiet 650w

Sasahara · 23 May 2009 at 21:33

You won't get a better 650w PSU in that price range on OC, tbf.
The only one that is, isn't sold on OC, so I can't tell you. ^^

That beQuiet should be good for any single graphics card and a lot for crossfire sli combos (though power adaptor would be needed for some)

Ucof · 23 May 2009 at 21:33

I think I see where this thread is going

RJC · 23 May 2009 at 21:34

Corsair or BeQuiet

icey_haj · 23 May 2009 at 21:35

Sasahara said:
You won't get a better 650w PSU in that price range on OC, tbf.
The only one that is, isn't sold on OC, so I can't tell you. ^^

That beQuiet should be good for any single graphics card and a lot for crossfire sli combos (though power adaptor would be needed for some)

What's the name of the PSU?

Sasahara · 23 May 2009 at 21:37

Seasonic M12D 750w Quad GFX Enabled ATX Power Supply

OC do have it, but a lot higher price ^^

Blackwhite · 23 May 2009 at 22:37

Antec 650W Blue - very stable, quiet PSU - much better than any BeQuiet.Only Enermax 82Pro 625W is better than that.

5 years warranty

trackrat · 23 May 2009 at 22:47

+1 Be Quiet.

Sasahara · 23 May 2009 at 23:16

Blackwhite said:
Antec 650W Blue - very stable, quiet PSU - much better than any BeQuiet.Only Enermax 82Pro 625W is better than that.

5 years warranty

Antec 650W Blue is a pretty decent PSU, but the best.. no not buy a long way.
http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=117

Enermax 82Pro 625W is better, but also not the best.

I will add beQuiet aren't more expensive cause they are massively better than some other makes of PSU, you paying more because it's a germany company and the euro owns the pound atm.

BeQuiet PSU are made by Topower for Listan, Topower also make PSUs for ePower, Tagan, some TTGI, Spire, OCZ Modstream and Powerstream, some BFG, Mushkin, A+GPB, some Hipro, some Aerocool, Vantec, Scythe, Listan (be quiet! and Revoltec), some Raidmax, some Dynapower (also sold as "eJet").

Source jonnyguru.com

Antec Signature Series and Seasonic M12D Series are with out a doubt the best you can buy for their respective power rating.