Enermax 500w Enough for this upgrade?

[kadean]

Hey all, I am planning on upgrading my PC with a new graphics card, OS and RAM. You can see my current specs in my signature. Here is a link to my PSU: Click

Anyways, I was planning on upgrading to an Nvidia 8800GTS 640mb, Vista 64 bit and 4gbs of Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 (PC2 6400). My question is, will my current PSU be able to handle these new upgrades?

Thanks for helping, and I really appreciate any and all replies .

 

[mpilchfamily]

You will be fine with your current PSU. It offers 32A on the combined +12v rails.

 

[JimiP]

Awesome, I was going to put up a thread for this very same purpose.

Is the 500w Liberty have enough juice to power an E6750, 8800GTS (320/640) 2GB of DDR2-800 (possibly 1066) and a single HDD and optical drive?

 

[kadean]

Great, thanks.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Originally posted by: JimiP
Awesome, I was going to put up a thread for this very same purpose.

Is the 500w Liberty have enough juice to power an E6750, 8800GTS (320/640) 2GB of DDR2-800 (possibly 1066) and a single HDD and optical drive?

If I already had a good used 500W Liberty, I'd run it.

If I were buying new, I'd select something else.

 

[CrystalBay]

sorry for the hIjack but



whats better Earth Watts 500 or Liberty500 ?

 

[mpilchfamily]

Close call. I'd say earth watts due mainly to price difference.

 

[JimiP]

Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee

Originally posted by: JimiP
Awesome, I was going to put up a thread for this very same purpose.

Is the 500w Liberty have enough juice to power an E6750, 8800GTS (320/640) 2GB of DDR2-800 (possibly 1066) and a single HDD and optical drive?

If I already had a good used 500W Liberty, I'd run it.

If I were buying new, I'd select something else.

Hmm, thank you for the response. I know that I want either a PCP&C or an Enermax PSU. There's other good ones out there for sure but these two were highly recommended to me by close friends.

Now, would the Liberty 620w be a better choice for my hardware selection?

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Antec Nine Hundred
Foxconn 680i
Intel C2D E6750
2GB DDR2-800
320GB 16MB Cache Seagate SATA HDD
EVGA 8800GTS (320/640MB)
Samsung 18X DVD-+R DVD Burner Lightscribe SATA

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Off the top of my head at 600W & above. Look at PCP&C Silencer, Seasonic, Corsair and the new Andyson built Ultra 600W unit. There are several more that I would buy/use over the Liberty.
If the OP, kadean, already has a good used Liberty...he should run it, w/o fear. The Libertys have developed a reputation for poping poorly speced capacitors. Not often but it has happened enough to be noted. Other hardware has not been taken out as the PSU fails...to the best of my knowledge.

There you go! Now do not turn this thread into a bash of Enermax...Please.

JimiP,
Why post here if you have friends in the know?

 

[JimiP]

Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee
Off the top of my head at 600W & above. Look at PCP&C Silencer, Seasonic, Corsair and the new Andyson built Ultra 600W unit. There are several more that I would buy/use over the Liberty.
If the OP, kadean, already has a good used Liberty...he should run it, w/o fear. The Libertys have developed a reputation for poping poorly speced capacitors. Not often but it has happened enough to be noted. Other hardware has not been taken out as the PSU fails...to the best of my knowledge.

There you go! Now do not turn this thread into a bash of Enermax...Please.

JimiP,
Why post here if you have friends in the know?

Well, I know quite a bit about these things myself excluding PSU's. I'm a computer technician at two different locations and the other employees/friends told me about the Liberty and Silencers. Now to mention, this is a great place to learn things and find out what everyone thinks.

I love these boards.

-Edit: What do you think of this one?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817151028

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

It is based on the M12 platform but w/o the modular interface or 60mm aux fan, so it should be a typical high end Seasonic build.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article656-page1.html

 

[Makaveli]

I just bought the Enermax 720w Infinity, my other choice I was looking at was the PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad 750W. The Enermax was cheaper by about 15bucks and has 30 less Wattage. The reason I choose the enermax tho, is i prefer the fan setup in it compared to the 80mm fan on the PC Power model.

I just installed it this morning and its really quiet, and love the build quality.

 

[secretanchitman]

i have the same enermax 500w and it powers everything in my rig just fine. even powers my htpc rig which has a xeon 3060 (e6600 equivalent) @ 3.6Ghz, 2x400GB sata hds, 1x120GB hd, 7900GT overclocked just fine.

 

[loafbred]

I'm using a Liberty 500 with an E6600 @ 3.4 GHz, 8800 GTX, X-Fi, one HDD, a floppy, one optical drive, and three medium speed 80mm fans. Since I settled on the overclock, it hasn't flinched once.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: JimiP

Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee
Off the top of my head at 600W & above. Look at PCP&C Silencer, Seasonic, Corsair and the new Andyson built Ultra 600W unit. There are several more that I would buy/use over the Liberty.
If the OP, kadean, already has a good used Liberty...he should run it, w/o fear. The Libertys have developed a reputation for poping poorly speced capacitors. Not often but it has happened enough to be noted. Other hardware has not been taken out as the PSU fails...to the best of my knowledge.

There you go! Now do not turn this thread into a bash of Enermax...Please.

JimiP,
Why post here if you have friends in the know?

Well, I know quite a bit about these things myself excluding PSU's. I'm a computer technician at two different locations and the other employees/friends told me about the Liberty and Silencers. Now to mention, this is a great place to learn things and find out what everyone thinks.

I love these boards.

-Edit: What do you think of this one?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817151028

Your friend was 1/2 right as has ben statd previously if you were buy a new PSU you can do alot better than the liberty!!

 

[corsa]

Recently bought 2nd hand Enermax Liberty 620w, it was easily powering an OC E6600 water cooled, 1900XT x2 Crossfire setup, X-Fire sound card, 2 storage HD's, 1 Raptor, fan controller on 2x120mm, one monster side fan/Thermaltake Kandalf and 2x neons.... all that on a 36 amp rated psu, not too bad i think
Had the chance to clean swap it for a Silverstone ST60F 600w modular ....very good on the test bench from what i have read, but the fan noise is terrible, Enermax is dead silent the way a psu should be.

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: corsa
Recently bought 2nd hand Enermax Liberty 620w, it was easily powering an OC E6600 water cooled, 1900XT x2 Crossfire setup, X-Fire sound card, 2 storage HD's, 1 Raptor, fan controller on 2x120mm, one monster side fan/Thermaltake Kandalf and 2x neons.... all that on a 36 amp rated psu, not too bad i think
Had the chance to clean swap it for a Silverstone ST60F 600w modular ....very good on the test bench from what i have read, but the fan noise is terrible, Enermax is dead silent the way a psu should be.

i read on newegg that the 620W isnt as up to snuff (quality wise) compared to the 500W. is that true or is it just bias/lies?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Originally posted by: secretanchitman

Originally posted by: corsa
Recently bought 2nd hand Enermax Liberty 620w, it was easily powering an OC E6600 water cooled, 1900XT x2 Crossfire setup, X-Fire sound card, 2 storage HD's, 1 Raptor, fan controller on 2x120mm, one monster side fan/Thermaltake Kandalf and 2x neons.... all that on a 36 amp rated psu, not too bad i think
Had the chance to clean swap it for a Silverstone ST60F 600w modular ....very good on the test bench from what i have read, but the fan noise is terrible, Enermax is dead silent the way a psu should be.

i read on newegg that the 620W isnt as up to snuff (quality wise) compared to the 500W. is that true or is it just bias/lies?

You should take newegg user reviews with the dust off of a grain of salt, most of the people that do review an item there only review it when they have a bad experience that is usually thier own fault for improper handling, assembly or simply buying the wrong hardware for the job then blaming the hardware for thier mistakes.

The Logisys PSU's on thier site don't get good reviews but we use the 480w version at our shop a lot ( as in over 50 so far this year ) and not a single one has been bad or cause one single problem in any system they've been used in. Now you'd think if those PSU's were as bad as the noobs on the newegg reviews said they were that we'd have had at least 1 bad PSU by now but we haven't.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Logysis is not exactly a name brand iether.....
I have not sen one good reviw online from anysite that is reputable or not....

NewEgg does not do reviews..those are at best customr comments!

Just because your sjop installs Logysis and has had no issues is still IMO not a good enough reason to purchase a lohysis PSU!
Especially when i can find no online sits that do reviews giving this particular brand a good review!!

Peace!!