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About LinkBacksFSP seem to have really improved their enthusiast offerings recently, and I'd be happy to use them now. I wouldn't have been too sure a few years back though.
FSP seem to have really improved their enthusiast offerings recently, and I'd be happy to use them now. I wouldn't have been too sure a few years back though.
I will always buy Thermaltake PSU. They are solid PSU and so quite
In my last build my PSU was the Antec Truepower 750W which in turn was assembled by Seasonic
It's a cracker for the price and practically silent in my rig at home.
Thats the one i have aswellOriginally Posted by Lee @ SCAN
In my last build my PSU was the Antec Truepower 750W which in turn was assembled by Seasonic
It's a cracker for the price and practically silent in my rig at home.
I am quite the fan of corsair myself but xfx and a great deal of other psu's. I think that you need to ensure there is only 1 12v rail and that its 80+ certified but otherwise the brand doesn't really matter.
Single 12v rail brings potential problems of its own, mostly safety related, and 80+ doesn't immediately mean it's a great PSU either, although provided it's genuine, it means a sample unit managed to sustain 100% rated output for 80plus testing.
Personally, i would not go with a Corsair PSU.
XFX are good - so no, not only corsair's.
Corsair, XFX, Seasonic or anything based on a Seasonic with a decent name and customer service.
OK I give up.
Post count spammersOK I give up.
sO WE SHOULD ONLY BUY cORSAIR? tHANKS M8ok i give up.
DanceswithUnix (28-02-2013)
Not sure what just happened in this thread??
1. OP asks a question
2. 'Senior' members of the forum explain the complexities of the question and answer it as best they can
3. People wanting free postage ignore the well thought out answers and post their unguided, uneducated response anyway to get their post count up
4. 'Senior' members point out their mistakes
5. Repeat step 3
6. 'Senior' members give up
7. Cocky buggers enter...
It's crazy, really. The amount of collective knowledge this forum has is staggering. We have people who can design a PSU from the ground up right through to people who make games for a living, yet some people will ignore all the posts from these people and post one line comments that contradict everything that's been said, or make little sense.
I just don't get it.
Not everyone has that amount of knowledge but still know enough to have an opinion. Sometimes miltiple shorter comments are as helpful, if not more so. The general consensus seems to be any good psu will be fine but the most popular are various brands all made by seasonic. Apart from the silliness above this has all made good reading, with the longer more technical posts providing a deeper understanding of the subject.
Opinions based on limited personal experience and/or brand loyalty aren't the most useful when making a buying decision. For example, someone might own a no-name PSU, and it hasn't blown up in the 10 minutes they've been using it at 5% rated load, so they recommend it because of it's apparent value-for-money? Ignoring the fact a lot of these no-name PSUs pose a potential threat to life/property, won't meet rated specs, and are quite likely to destroy PC internals as various failure modes for cheap SMPS include large voltage spikes. Extreme example, but still...
Ten such comments provide no useful information to make an informed decision. A few detailed comments giving a suggestion and explaining why are generally far more helpful, and allow others to debate the reasons if they don't agree.
It's even the same for self-proclaimed 'professional' reviews of power supplies, a lot of fairly popular sites 'review' power supplies without demonstrating a basic understanding of the subject, and whose testing is limited to plugging it into a PC which draws like 20% rated load and calling it 'kickass' because it doesn't leave a crater in the desk. Yeah, I know I pick on that particular site but unfortunately it's far from the only one...
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