Anyone Have experience With TTGI/Superflower TT550SS?

[IkeEisenhower]

As some of you may remember, I'm going to be running an Asus P4c800-E Del./2.8C/OCZ 3700 Gold R.2 setup OCed (hopefully) to a FSB of 1GHz. I was hoping to use my old PSU from my 2.0a system, but it's at best a 320W, and lowest-bidder OEM crap at that. I only run one ATA HDD, two opticals, five or six (I may want to disable the puny 40mm in my CoolDrive if it screams, but I'm not a Noise Nazi) case fans and a fan controller, but I figure there's no sense spending $70-80 on a decent 380W now and having to replace it entirely if I add more power-sucking components in the future when I can just spend twenty, thirty bucks more now and get a good 400W or higher, even if I don't need it.

I know there are a lot of Enermax fans in here, and they're on my list (any particular pick? I'm thinking Noisetaker 420...?), but I keep looking at this Superflower/TTGI 550W unit, and I can't find any pertinent reviews of it. I'm not big on LEDs, but I think that green sucker is a work of art compared to other PSUs I've seen, and for the price it seems like a pretty good unit. It can't make that much noise with a 140mm fan, and has incredibly long cables. Does anyone have one of these or know someone who runs one? Bad idea? I need to order one in the next day, and worse, I need to rush-ship it. Any suggestions?

 

[Technonut]

+5V: 50A
+ 12V: 30A
+3.3V: 35A

Specs look very good. If I recall correctly, there are some folks over at the VapoChill forums using this PSU with good results. (Quite important since the VapoChill runs off of the PSU )

 

[wicktron]

I have this PSU and it never dips below 12v under load. It is solid. AFAIK, there are adjustable pots inside the PSU should you feel the desire to beef up your rails.

 

[IkeEisenhower]

Originally posted by: wicktron
I have this PSU and it never dips below 12v under load. It is solid. AFAIK, there are adjustable pots inside the PSU should you feel the desire to beef up your rails.

You have the old version with the 120mm and what looks like a 60mm, or the new one with the 140/80? I can't imagine needing to get more juice out of the rails, but you never know when some AGP card manufacturer is going to ask something untoward of you (I think it was HardOCP that somehow got rumour that beta/early retail 6800s wanted you to connect two seperate Molexes if you wanted to OC the card {I know that doesn't make any sense, and it hurts my brain}, and if they make one last high-voltage 120mm-cooled slot-bending crazy push before production of high-end cards shifts inevitably to PCI-E, they might just ask us to go to a beefier PSU, in which case I'll crank the pot, begrudgingly).

Thanks so much for your help, I'm placing a rush order tonight so I get the damn thing before I have to get the mail forwarded (moving in a couple weeks and am determined to build system first).

 

[Jen]

i sent back my TTGI 550 watt cause it was worse than my Sparkle 550 watt. i dont know if you will have same problems as i had


i have since switched to pcpower and cooling 510 watt, this powersupply works best for my needs. voltages never drop



Jen

 

[maluckey]

Jen,

You now own the Ferrari of PSU's. I'd have to save the money for a new car instead of the PC Power and Cooling though.

IkeEisenhower,

TTGI, Sparkle/Fortron/Zalman/FSP (they are all made by FSP), and PC Power and Cooling are the top of the PSU food chains. Most of the Hardcore OC crew that I know, use one of the above PSU's for their more power hungry applications.

I use FSP units in my four setups. Mainly because for the price, it's virtually impossible to beat any of them. Hell! Even price not an option, you would be hard to find a better all-around unit.

 

[Jen]

Originally posted by: maluckey
Jen,

You now own the Ferrari of PSU's. I'd have to save the money for a new car instead of the PC Power and Cooling though.

IkeEisenhower,

TTGI, Sparkle/Fortron/Zalman/FSP (they are all made by FSP), and PC Power and Cooling are the top of the PSU food chains. Most of the Hardcore OC crew that I know, use one of the above PSU's for their more power hungry applications.

I use FSP units in my four setups. Mainly because for the price, it's virtually impossible to beat any of them. Hell! Even price not an option, you would be hard to find a better all-around unit.

on my dual board only the pcpower could give me the stability i needed. the TTGI , Sparkle , Zippy among others were not able to.
All of these powersupplys reported different voltage readings in the bios . Only the Pcpower reported best voltage and most stable voltage. Applying any voltage to the CPUs usually meant computer wouldnt bootup even though the sparkle i used had a 36 amp rateing on the 12 volt side. With the Pcpower that problem was solved as well


Jen

 

[maluckey]

Yup, the Pc Power and Cooling units are great.

In defense of the FSP and TTGI units. They are adjustible, so you have the ability to raise voltages if so desired. The TTGI 550 and the FSP 530 are VERY well rated by the hardcore sites out there, like Extreme Systems, and Overclockers.com. These units are also under half the price of the PC Power and Cooling units. Also, by appearance, the TTGI 550 case looks EXACTLY like a FSP Aurora unit, down to the controls and cables. It might even be made by FSP. It is known that some of the PC Power and Cooling were made by FSP a liitle while back. I hear that PC Power and Cooling now makes their own now, and unfortunately for everyone the price has gone up.

I guess it all boils down to how much you are willing to part with. If money wasn't an option, then the PC Power and Cooling would be my choice. Price dependent, one of the big FSP (or their clones) or the TTGI 550.