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extremely hot deal on fortron psu

Originally posted by: stelleg151
15A on 12v lines, not so good.
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Actually there's 2 x12v lines with 15A on each. THat's pretty damn good. Unless some computer comonent exists that requires more than 15A by itself this is a great deal.
 
Makes me sad. this is how much I paid for my Ennermax 420W Noisetaker (or whatever they call it). Even with all else being equal, this is a slick looking PSU, and I would much prefer this one.
 
just my 2 cents, but this price is just average. nothing special. You can get a superflower 500 W alot cheaper and have the same looks and performance. To give an idea of what a deal is on these, newegg had a price mistake selling the not as flashy fortron 500W for about $30 and change awhile back. They honored it too.
$80 just doesn't look all that great IMHO. Look into the prices on superflower and you'll find better deals.
 
I purchased this for my personal system. Very happy with the performance. I just want to add that Newegg has this P/S.

Buy Newegg = 'nuff said
 
Originally posted by: CasmirRadon
Makes me sad. this is how much I paid for my Ennermax 420W Noisetaker (or whatever they call it). Even with all else being equal, this is a slick looking PSU, and I would much prefer this one.
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Don't be sad, Enermax pwns Fortron any day. It's one of the highest efficiency PSUs. IIRC the NoiseTaker series is currently the most efficient at over 82% or something (too lazy to look it up, just going by memory).
 
while we're all discussing PS's, let's do a little poll, with everyone's top 5 power supply picks (quality, performance, reliability).
 
Explain to me why you all need such high powered Power supplies?

I can run practically any computer I can configure under a good 350 watt
 
I like my OCZ 520W Powerstream ... cost one arm and one leg but it powers that @#$@$ power hog 6800GT (400/110) (which pwnd my antec 430w ) one Raptor two 7500rpm 2 7500rpm IDE drives, 2 optical, one watercooler, one wireless card, one audigy, and OC'd p4 2.4 (3.0) quite well.
 
Originally posted by: riceknight
Explain to me why you all need such high powered Power supplies?

I can run practically any computer I can configure under a good 350 watt
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newest gen graphics cards SLI (that's x2 graphics cards) + newest high wattage p4's + mobo + HDD's (i personally have 5 HDD's running at a terabyte) + opticals (DVD, DVDR, CD, CDR) + floppy and zip drives (=P) + 4 GB's of ram

that stuff can eat alot of power and you want it to be as stable as possible. this fortron with 2x 12V rails is pretty nice since it sepates your peripherals and cpu.
 
Originally posted by: xerocool
Originally posted by: riceknight
Explain to me why you all need such high powered Power supplies?

I can run practically any computer I can configure under a good 350 watt
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newest gen graphics cards SLI (that's x2 graphics cards) + newest high wattage p4's + mobo + HDD's (i personally have 5 HDD's running at a terabyte) + opticals (DVD, DVDR, CD, CDR) + floppy and zip drives (=P) + 4 GB's of ram

that stuff can eat alot of power and you want it to be as stable as possible. this fortron with 2x 12V rails is pretty nice since it sepates your peripherals and cpu.
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all so u can play half life 2, yeah? 🙂 i just playin with you. having a terabyte is sick stuff man.
 
Explain to me why you all need such high powered Power supplies?
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I've got one of those power hungry eVGA 5900 ultras. My Super Flower 450 watter can't keep up with it...
Let me ask you PSU guys this question...I'm getting a lot of artifacts when I play Final Fantasy XI online. I used Motherboard Monitor and it was telling me my 12+ is at 11.40 and my +5 is at 4.08. I don't know much about PSU's but I've heard that is pretty bad!! I'm thinking that eVGA 5900 Ultra is just sucking the life out of my PSU....what can I do to combat this problem and is this Fortron worth looking at??

thanks
 
Originally posted by: stockjock
Explain to me why you all need such high powered Power supplies?
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I've got one of those power hungry eVGA 5900 ultras. My Super Flower 450 watter can't keep up with it...
Let me ask you PSU guys this question...I'm getting a lot of artifacts when I play Final Fantasy XI online. I used Motherboard Monitor and it was telling me my 12+ is at 11.40 and my +5 is at 4.08. I don't know much about PSU's but I've heard that is pretty bad!! I'm thinking that eVGA 5900 Ultra is just sucking the life out of my PSU....what can I do to combat this problem and is this Fortron worth looking at??

thanks
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Those voltages are horrible. However, I don't believe they are correct. If they really were that low you would most likely be getting rebooting. I would test with a multimeter to see what the real values are.
 
"i just playin with you. having a terabyte is sick stuff man."

A Terabyte is not that unusual anymore. Video eats storage space. Many people store copies of their DVDs on hard drives. With the proper interface you can pick and play DVDs like a jukebox, very convenient. Also others store and edit high definition files which are extremely large files. In a few years multible terabytes of storage will be the norm.
 
Just from personal experience I can attest that the newer graphic cards will blow due to inadequate power. I rma'd two times before I changed my Antec 420 to this Fortron. Now everything runs fine.
 
anyone have any experience with cases that have room for two PS's? aka redundant power supply? i'm wondering if i can get 2x 36A+ ps's in one case.... 😀
 
Originally posted by: Connoisseur
Originally posted by: stelleg151
15A on 12v lines, not so good.
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Actually there's 2 x12v lines with 15A on each. THat's pretty damn good. Unless some computer comonent exists that requires more than 15A by itself this is a great deal.
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edit: n/m...i think 15A should be fine each per CPU and high end graphics card...at least based on my calculations. (Eg. AMD FX 90W, high-end GPU 110W)
 
It appears that the reason Enermax is left out of many recommendation lists is that so many of them are 'hit & miss'. Reliability wise, Fortron is usually preferred over Enermax. People who like Enermax are loud but the poeple who had bad experience with pricy Enermax are even louder.

Originally posted by: xerocool
while we're all discussing PS's, let's do a little poll, with everyone's top 5 power supply picks (quality, performance, reliability).
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OK
It's tough to ignore the sheer number of users who give Enermax thumbs down, so:

Fortron (Sparkle) are great, Antec True Power (Channel Well) are good as are Aopen, Vantec, TTGI (Superflower) and HEC.

Sirtec (Chieftec, Silverstone, Enlight, Thermaltake).


More expensive excellent PSUs: Herolchi (Heroichi), PC Power and Cooling, Zippy, Tagan (OCZ).


 
Equally important is to know what to stay away from. Stay away from
Deer - Allied, Austin, L&C, Eagle, Mustang, US-Can, Duro, Tsunami, some Sunny models... all variations of Deer PSUs having model numbers starting with DR or LC. Avoid them all!

 
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