Power supply died... which replacement?
Howdy all,
My power supply died on me :/ It was from an old PC so I was kind of expecting it. Anyhow, I'm gonna order a new one tomorrow, but which should I get:
Antec TruePower 650w - http://www.scan.co.uk/products/650w-...-12v-120mm-fan
Coolermaster Silent Pro M 600w - http://www.scan.co.uk/products/600w-...-12v-135mm-fan
Coolermaster Silent Pro Gold 600w - http://www.scan.co.uk/products/600w-...s12v-135mm-fan
I'd prefer modular really because my case is small. I have the following in the machine:
AMD Phenom II 955BE (125w TDP) - OC @ 3.8ghz
8gb DDR3 RAM - running 4 sticks @ 1.64v
Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3
MSI Radeon HD5850 Twin Frozr II, OC @ 850/1200
Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum Card
2 hard drives - Samsung Spinpoint F3 and an older Spinpoint
About 5 USB Devices
I know it's not going to be hungry for 600w, but I'd really like to cover my ass in that department so I'd be wanting at least a 600w PSU for future upgrading and possibly using the same PSU in a future build.
Thanks all :)
Re: Power supply died... which replacement?
The Antec is a good PSU made by Seasonic but is semi-modular. The Coolermaster Silent Pro M is made by Enhance and is more efficient and has less hard wired cables than the Antec.
Re: Power supply died... which replacement?
the coolermaster for me its slightly more efficient and it has a single 12V rail instead of lots of 12V rails thats just my preference though
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Cool, thanks, I'll go with the coolermaster gold :P
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Re: Power supply died... which replacement?
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GoNz0
enermax ;)
yup and a Silverstone FT02 to go with it, twin i7-980x, 6x4GB RAM, twin 6970s, 4 240GB SSD v3 in RAID 01 and 6 U3011 in eyefinity.
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Re: Power supply died... which replacement?
The Coolermasters were on today only at scan, so I went ahead and got the 700w one for £69.50 (rather conveniently this one's max efficiency - 92% - is reached at just about 50% load - or 330ish watts - which is about what my comp draws under load).
Pleased as punch so far, I've been able to crank up my overclocks a little too.
Thanks for the help guys :)