Allied 350W, came out of a Dynex case+PSU combo, enough?

[VirtualLarry]

System is:
A8N-SLI nF4
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ S939
ATI X1300 PCI-E 128MB
2x512MB Corsair DDR-400
WD 160GB JB IDE HD
Samsung 22X IDE DVD burner

No overclocking.

System posts and runs WDDLGDIAG fine to erase HD. Have yet to install an OS and run Prime95 or 3dmark, but it seems ok.

No video card upgrades planned, otherwise obviously a PSU upgrade is needed.

But do you think this is enough for now? Rails seemed a little bit low in the BIOS monitoring, 3.3, 5, 12v, were all low. 11.7v is what the 12v was showing. But I'm thinking that all three monitoring are low, since there's nothing draining the 5v or 3.3v.

There are two 12v rails, one 10A, and one 13A.

PSU was previously in a rig, powering a P4 2.8HT overclocked to 3.2. But after six months, it got unstable, and had to remove the overclock. Same motherboard, RAM, and CPU is currently in a different case with an ENP-5150 Enhance 500W PSU overclocked back to 3.2 and stable.

Will it last six months to a year? I'm putting together some cheap parts to sell. Don't want to waste money on a "good" PSU. (Alternative PSU is $20 Xion "450W", which I put into a friend's dual-core AMD 2.3Ghz rig, which replaced this PSU. This PSU was a tiny bit heavier than the Xion.)

 

[HOOfan 1]

Allied = Apex, L&C Power, Deer

Pure unadulterated CRAP.

It might last 6 months, but it is just as likely to blow a transistor or a rectifier and take your equipment with it.

 

[Skandaluz]

Allied = Apex, L&C Power, Deer

Pure unadulterated CRAP.

It might last 6 months, but it is just as likely to blow a transistor or a rectifier and take your equipment with it.

Totally agree.

 

[TemjinGold]

PSU was previously in a rig, powering a P4 2.8HT overclocked to 3.2. But after six months, it got unstable, and had to remove the overclock. Same motherboard, RAM, and CPU is currently in a different case with an ENP-5150 Enhance 500W PSU overclocked back to 3.2 and stable.

Err... Allied being crap aside, you just answered yourself right there. If your OC started to get unstable and you swapped PSUs to fix it, you really shouldn't trust it unless you don't care if it takes your PC with it.

 

[Rifter]

Allied is crap, trust me i used to work the RMA department of a wholesaler that sold mainly L&C and Allied PSU's. Some batches would be near 25% failure in the first 6 months. Seriously just spend the $35 on a Corsair 400CX.

 

[thescreensavers]

All the bestbuy branded PSU's are garbage.

 

[HOOfan 1]

All the bestbuy branded PSU's are garbage.

Allied isn't a Best Buy brand...those are Dynex and Rocketfish

 

[HumblePie]

Allied isn't a Best Buy brand...those are Dynex and Rocketfish

And the Dynex and Rocketfish as still crap. What part of his statement was invalidated? He never stated Allied was a bestbuy brand.

 

[HOOfan 1]

And the Dynex and Rocketfish as still crap. What part of his statement was invalidated? He never stated Allied was a bestbuy brand.

Because no Best Buy brand PSU was discussed in this thread...so one would guess he thought that Allied was a Best Buy brand PSU...which it isn't, which was my point.

 

[HumblePie]

Because no Best Buy brand PSU was discussed in this thread...so one would guess he thought that Allied was a Best Buy brand PSU...which it isn't, which was my point.

Ahhh, but Dynex is listed in the title because the case is a bestbuy brand. Ergo, a perfectly logical chain can be reached through that. So busting some ones balls over making a perfectly correct statement is just stupid.

 

[HOOfan 1]

Ahhh, but Dynex is listed in the title because the case is a bestbuy brand. Ergo, a perfectly logical chain can be reached through that. So busting some ones balls over making a perfectly correct statement is just stupid.

I was not busting his balls....I was just pointing out that Allied is not a Best Buy brand. Not sure how that can be construed as offensive....unless I topped it off with some sort of insult.

 

[Rifter]

who cares, they are still crap. Sometimes people can really take things the wrong way when they read stuff online.

 

[JEDIYoda]

rofl at all you knuckleheads.....

You realize that the majority of PC users have no clue what a crappy PSU is under the hood of their PC???

yet as long as it turns on.....they don`t really care about such nonesense.....

 

[killster1]

funny thread thanks for the laughs with the best buy jokes. id say 939 3200+ at stock run fine for a long while with it.. really lower power. i dont like to risk things so i wouldnt do it prob but im sure it will run. (might catch on fire and burn everyone alive?) hehe

Rocketfish psu seem to be fine by me on a side note. Didnt buy it at best buy got it in a combo of BFG psu's but worked fine for when i used it with 7900gt and quadcore 650 watt i think?

 

[Yellowbeard]

From my personal experience over the years, those PSUs are time bombs and the fuse does not necessarily rely on a heavy load to be set off. I'd ditch it ASAP if it were my system.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Because no Best Buy brand PSU was discussed in this thread...so one would guess he thought that Allied was a Best Buy brand PSU...which it isn't, which was my point.

It was inside a Dynex case. That's the way it was shipped from BestBuy.

 

[WT]

Reminds me of the old PowMax PSUs. Any guesses why they called them POWMax ?? Just not worth the roll of the dice to me to use the Allied PSU unless you wanna roll the dice.

 

[deimos3428]

Depends. As others have stated, this is perhaps not the most reliable PSU model/brand in the universe. But failures are a matter of probability.

If it's an unused/untested PSU, I'd suggest buying a higher quality one instead of rolling the dice. It might cost you all of $40 for some peace of mind with a Corsair 400CX or the like.

OTOH if you've been using this particular PSU for a while -- I'd suggest you keep on using it for another 6 months to a year. (Not for multiple years though, let's not push our luck.) Most failures occur either right away due to defects, or near the end of a PSU's expected lifetime when parts wear out. So if it were destined to fail early, it likely would have done so by now.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, it was stable for nearly a year powering a non-overclocked P4 2.8 HT rig. Anyways, I donated that rig, so I don't have to worry about it anymore. Let the new owner worry why his computer is crashing. :evil; (Humor, it was stable for me when I put Ubuntu on it.)

 

[Tsavo]

Powmax doesn't beat SPARKLE for a name that doesn't instill confidence!