You don't need a bloody 500W power supply!!!!!!

[davidstone28]

You don't need a bloody 500W power supply!!!!!!

[cm_uk]

still want a silent fanless 500w antec tho

[arthurleung]

My Antec 550W is not holding this up very well

[herulach]

The point beign a 500W psu will rarely put out 500w stably anyway, when you take into account temperature, and the fact that a lot of tmanufacturers rate peak power. You also have to bear in mind that HDDs draw around 2A each on spin up.
They dont even test the gpu consumption underload.

And anyone who buys a 500w psu cos someone has told them they need one is a muppet, you should buy based on the current ratings, not the wattage rating. And still leave yourself plenty of headroom.

[jnm21]

Very interesting (but as they & others above have said not to be taken in isolation), as is the other article on the same site regarding PSU efficiency - basically for the example, it max'd out at around 50-70% of rated capacity, at around 82% efficiency, droping to near 80% at full load.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article28-page4.html

[kempez]

PCP&C claim that their PSU's put out constant 510w (for the 510 anyhoo).

I liked reading this: Blurb

[oralpain]

I've owned a few PC Power and Cooling PSU, and they do not overstate the output.

They are expensive for a good reason.

[OmarSantiago]

PCP&C claim that their PSU's put out constant 510w (for the 510 anyhoo).

I liked reading this: Blurb

Down this path lies the road to madness gentle reader. Next thing you'll be reading this and realise that your expensive PSU is worthless without a decent mains cable, rhodium-plated contacts, mains noise suppressors, electronic starters for your fluorescent lamps...

[kempez]

Down this path lies the road to madness gentle reader. Next thing you'll be reading this and realise that your expensive PSU is worthless without a decent mains cable, rhodium-plated contacts, mains noise suppressors, electronic starters for your fluorescent lamps...

Well I have a nice UPS that I use and whereas I had an Antec Neopower that supplied pretty dodgy voltages to my board (when OC'd). The PCP&C supplies clean volts - all the time - and never budge

[TeePee]

Who ever said you did? As every shuttle owner knows, what you do need is a PSU of good quality, which can put out the required watts

Higher wattage PSU's could be assumed to be made of higher quality components.

[peterb]

Down this path lies the road to madness gentle reader. Next thing you'll be reading this and realise that your expensive PSU is worthless without a decent mains cable, rhodium-plated contacts, mains noise suppressors, electronic starters for your fluorescent lamps...

But you must consult the runes, and the oracle - and only at a full moon - before washing all those expensive woven cables in de-ionised water that was originally taken from a borehole deeper than 200 metres in chalk soil. Then, and only then will the true sound of a CD be heard... or the full speed of your heavily overclocked PC be obtained!

But... being serous, a good UPS is worth while - it only needs to hold up the PC for about 3 or 4 minutes if power goes off (so you can perform a graceful shutdown) and most provide some line conditioning against mains borne spikes and brownouts which really do exist!

[JCBeastie]

Mwahahaa, Fools!

You need 1000 watts

JCBeastie

*Disclaimer: You actually dont, this is utter fallacy *