650w EZCool PSU vs 520VX Corsair

[amjedm]

I'd always go for the EZCool over the Corsair (if I wanted a paperweight)

[SiM]

High (reccomened in most cases): Enermax, Seasonic, Corsair

High Mid (almost worthy of High): Be Quiet

Mid (will power the systems effectivly): FSP, Antec, Tagan, Coolermaster, OCZ, Silverstone, Thermaltake, Zalman, Akasa, PC Power & Cooling, Zippy, NZXT, Scythe, NorthQ.

Low (only to be used on very low budget systems): A-TOP, Aerocool, APEX, Aspire, Asus, ATADC, Athena Power, ATRIX, BFG, Broadway, Coolmax, Deer, Delta, Mushkin, Diablotek, Dynapower, EagleTech, Enhance, Acbel, AMS, Channel, Etasis, Enlight, E-Power, Foxconn, Futurepower, I-Star, InWin, JPAC, Just PC, Kingwin, Linkworld, Lite-On, Logisys, Masscool, MGE, MSI, Nmediapc, Norwood Micro, Raidmax, Rosewill, SFC, Sintek, Shuttle, Skyhawk, Spire, Star Micro, Startech, Sunbeam, TOPOWER, TTGI, Wintech, XClio, XION, YoungYear, Zebronics.

Base (spawn of satan... avoid at all costs): Hiper, EZCool, Q-Tec, PowMax

if anyone thinks it is categorised wrong or something has been missed ... give me a bell

(NB High, Mid and Base are categorised in "the best appears first" order)
(NB in High, seasonic is placed before corsair as they make most of the good corsair units... NOT because they are better)

Sorry TAKTAK, that list is complete nonsense... PC Power & Cooling and Zippy are meant to be better than Enermax/Seasonic/Corsair and Xclio is not a low PSU... I am sure there are probably other mistakes in that order too... I would remove it to avoid confusing poor noobs... some Tagan PSUs are "low" and some are "mid-high"... maybe you should have read some reviews before posting that list... Silverstone makes some very good PSUs too

Look here: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1000883

[staffsMike]

PC Power and cooling are certainly rated very highly in the states. OCZ own them now so they would almost certainly now be considered at the same level assuming they rebranded them rather than FSP, who are also a fantastic manafacturer.

[SiM]

Avoid list: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=974240

[TAKTAK]

Sorry TAKTAK, that list is complete nonsense... PC Power & Cooling and Zippy are meant to be better than Enermax/Seasonic/Corsair and Xclio is not a low PSU... I am sure there are probably other mistakes in that order too... I would remove it to avoid confusing poor noobs...

PC P&C and zippy are good makes... but it's hard to get hold of them in this country... hence why they were dropped down a category.. (prehaps they should be moved to Mid-High)

and the ones that are placed in the 'low' category are determined by the number of RMA's per particular manufacturer over the amount that they shipped out... however i'm not sure why estaisis is in low...

and the ratings are based on the manufacturers in general... as some manufacturers have some brillinat PSU's but also some rubbish PSU's...

*most of the low category was copied from an out of date site... and then i added and moved things around a bit...

[alexander]

Obviously Corsair but is it true that the 5 year warranty means shipping it to the US and so the warranty is basically void because it costs more to post there + import here than it does to buy a new one?

[staffsMike]

Obviously Corsair but is it true that the 5 year warranty means shipping it to the US and so the warranty is basically void because it costs more to post there + import here than it does to buy a new one?

But if bought from scan you RMA to UK problem solved

[Blitzen]

But heres the catch -

If the EZCool only cost £5 and the Corsair was £55...

Which would you buy?

Is this actually a real question or just a spam joke?

PC P&C and zippy are good makes... but it's hard to get hold of them in this country... hence why they were dropped down a category.. (prehaps they should be moved to Mid-High)

and the ones that are placed in the 'low' category are determined by the number of RMA's per particular manufacturer over the amount that they shipped out... however i'm not sure why estaisis is in low...

and the ratings are based on the manufacturers in general... as some manufacturers have some brillinat PSU's but also some rubbish PSU's...

*most of the low category was copied from an out of date site... and then i added and moved things around a bit...

Sorry TakTak but your list is AMAZINGLY WRONG!
(even though its obvious you have copied nearly all of this from an 'ill informed' American site).

1. You have BFG, Mushkin and XCLIO in the LOW category. All three, especially the XCLIO are not low rated PSUs. If anything, XCLIO are rated better than most of the units you attemped to place in the Medium Category.

2. PC P&C units are certainly not mid either. Admittedly, they arent as special now as OCZ make them but they are still very good units. If you look hard enough, they are easy to fid in the UK aswell.

3. Zippy are a quality make and are certainly high end.

4. Since when does a PSUs availability make it high end or not anyway?


TAKTAK......this list you have made is INCREDIBLY misleading and you should really delete it. Anyone reading that list that is looking for a PSU, and uses your list as a guide, may get their purchase VERY wrong as the information on it is poor and inaccurate.

[Betty_Swallocks]

XCLIO are rated better than most of the units you attemped to place in the Medium Category.

Thank goodness for that. I've just lashed out about 50 quid for an Xclio 650W from Scan.
Not a name I'd heard of but I trusted Scan not to sell me crap. (Not at midrange prices anyway)

[Betty_Swallocks]

But if bought from scan you RMA to UK problem solved

For the whole 5 years of the Corsair warranty or just 1?

[Blitzen]

Thank goodness for that. I've just lashed out about 50 quid for an Xclio 650W from Scan.
Not a name I'd heard of but I trusted Scan not to sell me crap. (Not at midrange prices anyway)

Thats exactly why the list is so misleading and inaccurate. YOu worried after reading it for no reason

Can you link the XCLIO you bought?
BTW...Really dont worry....these XCLIO's are good units.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

<Curently under tweakage>

ratings classed on companys overall current performance!! some of the higher manufacturers may have bad PSU's and some of the lower manufacturers may have good PSU's, so don't take the rankings as the "DO-ALL AND END-ALL" take them with a healthy pinch of salt

High (reccomened in most cases): Enermax, Seasonic, Corsair

High Mid (almost worthy of High, but not quite there, due to unavailability in the UK or other factors, High Mid, is escentially the same as High): Be Quiet, Etasis, Zippy, PC Power & Cooling, OCZ, FSP

Mid (will power the systems effectivly): Antec, Tagan, Coolermaster, Silverstone, Thermaltake, Zalman, Akasa, XClio, NZXT, Scythe, NorthQ.

Low (To be used on very low budget systems): A-TOP, Aerocool, APEX, Asus, ATADC, Athena Power, ATRIX, Bestec, BFG, Broadway, Coolmax, Deer, Delta, Mushkin, Diablotek, Dynapower, EagleTech, Enhance, Acbel, AMS, Channel, Enlight, E-Power, Foxconn, Futurepower, I-Star, InWin, JPAC, Just PC, Kingwin, Linkworld, Lite-On, Logisys, Masscool, MGE, MSI, Nmediapc, Norwood Micro, Raidmax, Rosewill, SFC, Sintek, Shuttle, Skyhawk, Spire, Star Micro, Startech, Sunbeam, TOPOWER, TTGI, Wintech, XION, YoungYear, Zebronics.

Base (try to avoid using as they have a higher failure rate than other manufacturers): Hiper, EZCool, Q-Tec, Aspire, PowMax

if anyone thinks it is categorised wrong or something has been missed ... give me a bell

(NB Low is copied from somwhere (and rearranged) based on the number of RMA'd PSU's over total shipped by manufacturer)

Shuttle PSUs are made by FSP. I hope you are not referring to the ones in the SFF barebones PCs. They are excellent PSUs.

[s3ds]

the only Xclio i had put 10.4 v down the 12v line (metre tested )
i never noticed till i installed a better GPU and it crashed all the time
( was a low noise one ) it could have been a one off though

Silverpower is missing from the list. A cheap PSU that i will use in my own builds ( low end 12-18 month pc's only ) on my second and the first is going strong

now i have used a Ezcool ( pause for lafter ) in a very old pc that was not worth putting a better one in ( the pc was worth the same as the ezcool ) it was no ware near stressed but did its job
but i have had some in for repair that have blown and they were not old

its a lottery realy

[amjedm]

Silverpower is missing from the list. A cheap PSU that i will use in my own builds ( low end 12-18 month pc's only ) on my second and the first is going strong

I'll second that but remember they're cheap (not in the same price range as the EZCools though) but still quality IMO.

[Mithrandir]

I hope my Hiper is okay. I love my Enermax though (even though its an older model)

[SiM]

Even though they are unreliable, if downtime is not a concern, Hiper is not a bad buy for budget builds... because:
1) While function its not really av that bad PSU
2) They don't kill any other PC component when they die
3) The RMA service is quick afaik

Of course if you can get a cheap Xclio or FSP then that is better though