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Best Power Supply on Market?

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Best Power Supply on Market?
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This is such a loaded question and truthfully nobody here or probably anywhere can answer that definitively.

These are just my personal opinions and have no real value so take what I say with a grain of salt.


OCZ is a new to the PSU biz and are getting rave reviews everywhere...but I suspect they have a
pretty slick marketing department to help out here. I remember when OCZ had a poor reputation..they have come along way. Good for them..if they keep it up for another few years I most likely will try out something from them.

PC Power and Cooling makes big and heavy PSUs that work well and there are probably a handful of other PSUs that are fairly similar in build and performance.

Antec holds its own and are the most mainstream which can be good an bad.

Enermax takes a difference approach IMO, their PSUs are not the heaviest but they almost always put out more power than what they are rated for , they are efficient, stable and last a long time. If you look at the inside of an Enermax it looks like an Enermax...pretty much every other PSU has a different look.


A guy once told me go by weight....I used that for a long time but then I realized these were switching PSUs so Caps , heatsinks and etc are really not that meaningful. A design is a design.






 
hehe, I didnt say it was an easy question, or one with one correct answer.

I was just curious about everyone's preferences and which to avoid.

I am debating an enermax and the antec true power's 480 or 550w.

Thanks
 
Originally posted by: Blain
For over 500W... PC Power & Cooling
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You betcha! My antec True 430 sucks compiaired to PC Power and Cooling 350watt Turbo Cool.
And in Feb of 05 a monster of 800+ watts will be avalable and fully customizable to your needs. I dicarded my antec.
 
Question maybe you all can help me with. Everywhere I look, the OCZ's are getting great reviews from people that own them. They certainly cost less than some (PCP&C, Zippy) and put out nice 12V current. However, doesn't the new ATX 12V v2.0 standard say that for large 12V amperage it has to be divided between two seperate rails. So, even though the OCZ might be PCI-express and BTX ready, should I be worried because it doesn't conform to these standards that are in place now? The other PSU's I was looking at (Enermax 495-P, Antec NeoPower, Fortron Blue Storm) all have this, so it made me wonder...

Smithers
 
Another vote for the Antec TruePower line. Using a 430W currently and love it. Great volts, and it's very quiet. PC Power&Cooling PSUs are great if you don't mind wearing earplugs.
 
Originally posted by: Blain
:laugh: I need to start a threead...

"I want the fastest most comfortable car made... for $2,385.71." :laugh:
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:laugh:

For greater than 500W, a nuclear facility will be the best.

Seriously though, at that high of the game, most of the companies are serious and you pretty much only have good psu's to choose from. Antec, Enermax, PC Power&Cooling, OCZ to name a few.

Frankly, unless you are running dual 6800 Ultras, 5 SCSI drives in RAID5, 2 Opticals, and an FX-55OCed, you will not need a power supply greater than 500Watts.

If you run something like an A64 with 1 GPU, 3 HDDs, 2 Opticals, then you can get away with a quality 400 W PSU - this includes extra headroom. Something like the Seasonic Super Tornado 400W, or even the Antec Phantom 350W will be quite enough.
 
Originally posted by: PorBleemo
I prefer Forton/Sparkle PSUs as they have stable rails and are very quiet. After that I would buy an Antec.
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Second on Sparkle. I've had two of them which have been perfect.
 
Originally posted by: batmanuel
Antec TruePower 550 - on sale for $99.49 at Newegg plus $7 shipping. It ought to power anything you throw at it, even a pair of SLI'd 6800 Ultras.

Anyone know if Antec has raised the amps on the +12V rail on the new revisions of this? I'm wondering because the True 380 that came in a Sonata I bought recently had 24A instead of the 18A that newegg had listed in the specs, so I'm wondering if these units got beefed up as well.
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Ya i think ive settled for the antec truepower 550.

Anyone have one of these and know about how loud it is?

Thanks for the info..

p.s. lyfer, do you know if all of the antecs are getting beefed up like the truepower 430 you mentioned had 26a on the +12v line??
 
Take this with a grain of salt, but I recommended 3 Antec true powers a few years ago. 2 of which died in 3 months. And third one died shortly after.
 
maximum pc did a lineup this month. put 500+watt psu's under heavy load in 100degree room, dropped wall voltage to simulate brownout.. cept they went down to 60v just for kicks i guess.. true stress test i guess. antec neo power and coolermaster were tops i believe. followed by pc power and whatever...cuz it was louder. and the rest were meh...flashier looking/modular cable whatever... but internals couldn't hack it.
 
Originally posted by: Fitz
I am using this for my new system picked one up for $50 cash which was a steal new in a box,the guy had two and didnt need the other.
http://www.xoxide.com/ultra-x-...400-w-ps-titanium.html
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Probably sold it to you for 50 to recover his losses....
Nah i dunno, but ive seriously heard nothing but bad things about those power supplies...
I will never buy an ultra x connect from what horror stories ive heard in these forums alone.

take that with a grain of salt as well i guess


 
Would highly recommend Sparkle, using them for the last 8 or so years & no problems, gone thru & RMA'd TT, Antec, lots of generics, Enermax, AOpen, ENlight.

Haven't tried OCZ but they seem to be somewhat overrated from what I gather, long term reliability has not been proven.
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
maximum pc did a lineup this month. put 500+watt psu's under heavy load in 100degree room, dropped wall voltage to simulate brownout.. cept they went down to 60v just for kicks i guess.. true stress test i guess. antec neo power and coolermaster were tops i believe. followed by pc power and whatever...cuz it was louder. and the rest were meh...flashier looking/modular cable whatever... but internals couldn't hack it.
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Maximum PC is pretty much worthless but regardless it would still be fun to look the article over... I will have to go the Barnes and Nobel and check it out. thanks.


 
Originally posted by: BigHurt
Originally posted by: Fitz
I am using this for my new system picked one up for $50 cash which was a steal new in a box,the guy had two and didnt need the other.
http://www.xoxide.com/ultra-x-...400-w-ps-titanium.html
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Probably sold it to you for 50 to recover his losses....
Nah i dunno, but ive seriously heard nothing but bad things about those power supplies...
I will never buy an ultra x connect from what horror stories ive heard in these forums alone.

take that with a grain of salt as well i guess
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that one failed the maximum pc test i believe. pretty, but most people wonn't stress it to the degree that they'd notice😛
 
You can pay a lot more and get a lot less than you do with Fortron/Sparkle or Silverstone (made by Enhance). The Ultra X-connect being a case in point...
.bh.
 
Originally posted by: BigHurt
Originally posted by: Fitz
I am using this for my new system picked one up for $50 cash which was a steal new in a box,the guy had two and didnt need the other.
http://www.xoxide.com/ultra-x-...400-w-ps-titanium.html
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Probably sold it to you for 50 to recover his losses....
Nah i dunno, but ive seriously heard nothing but bad things about those power supplies...
I will never buy an ultra x connect from what horror stories ive heard in these forums alone.

take that with a grain of salt as well i guess
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If it blows i buy another,No big loss got it cheap 50 cad
 
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