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Make sure your neighbour covers the costs if anything goes wrong because of the psu
well im going to slightly hijack this thread, talk of exploding stuff gets you thinking and all...
Coolermaster IGreen 500W , solid purchase or not so hot? its damn quiet! never going to SLI it or any of that nonsence.
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Couple of things about PSUs
1 depends what you do with them.
2 depends what your components are.
A common cause of killing your psu is upgradeing your graphics card.
Running a c2d at stock speeds and nothing powerfull in the way of graphics card and that ezcool will probably be ok
you want to consider overclocking or anything decent graphics card wise and NO don't risk it.
Buff is correct here.Antec are a marketing company.
They & others source product , badge it & resell.
There are only so many PSU manufacturers & many brands come out of the same factories albeit there may be variations in exact spec.
Antecs tend to be either Seasonic or CWT oemed (as do Corsair).
Seasonic make the antec earthwatts and Neo HE models, not sure on the others.
Some of the antecs are very good for there cost, granted they are not black and shiney and generally look like so oem job but they perform well.
FSP are generally good, but model does come into it, they make some cheap psu with lower grade components (seem to remember that FSP make psu for HP)
Basically it's make+model that is important as simply as it gives you a better idea as to how much you can trust the numbers.
Seem to remember that the igreens are ok.
UL number: E131875
Made by: ACBEL POLYTECH INC
Should be ok, but depends on what you're running and how much it is?
Oooo Scan have got a 520W Coolermaster Real Power M520 Modular on at £58
Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK
looks intresting, I wonder who make them?
It's ACBEL POLYTECH INC same UL number as the igreen, looks like they might make all coolermaster PSUs
Sorry but i think you are off the mark there.
If you buy a major 'el cheapo' PSU it doesnt really have a bearing how much you load it. Its the fact that the constant ripple and dirty power coming from is about to tip the components over the edge.
Yeah, generally the more you load an elcheapo PSU the quicker it's going to fail, but it's going to fail at some point anyway (OK, so everything will, but you get the idea).
I won't even consider an elcheapo for the most budget of budget PCs I build, let alone the mid-high end stuff. You might save a few quid in the short-term, but it's going to cost you a hell of a lot more when you factor in the long-term costs.
Put it another way. Would you consider buying a hard drive from someone who had had it powered from a QTec? I sure as hell wouldn't.
i have done it in the past and my request never got posted
also i emailed regarding a bundle price and never had a response. it don;t matter now as my mates pc was oredered from scan anyway. It just never seems worth it as they probably get thousands of requests each day.
Make sure your neighbour covers the costs if anything goes wrong because of the psu
i run a core 2 soon to be quad core, 1 X850 XTPE which will be a X1950 pro.
1 dvd rw sata and now 1 sata hdd.
not real loading.
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
but scan sell them and i always associate excellent products sold by scan
Actually that is quite a bit of load esp the x1950pro, granted not into sli/corssfire levels but it's still quite a bit.
Do you over clock? that pushes the psu requirements up. (more stability than power)
i don;t now but i will with a quad core. may try now with my ram.
the X850XT PE is 74w, the x1950pro is 66w
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