Fortron 530W or Antec TruePower 480W or Enermax 465W?

[Lyfer]

Originally posted by: Nickel020
If you're at all concerned about your power supply not being powerful enough get the enermax. With a 33A 12V rail you should never have problems no matter how many HDs you have, even if you go with 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition. The 18A of the Fortron is too low I think as due to graphics cards the importance of the 12V rail has incresed quiet a bit. A 6800 Ultra EE can peek at about 120 W, so using P = V x A this means that it draws 10 A itself!

THats what i was thinking, even the FSP550 model has only 18A on the +12v, the Antec TruePower 550W offers 24A on the +12v. The enermax is starting to look like a good buy, but I had one bad experience with Enermax PSU. I had originally purchased a Enermax chassis with a 300W enermax PSU that was not strong enough to boot a Shuttle AK31A + Athlon 1GHZ board setup. I originally thought the PSU was DOA, but it worked fine in my cousins Athlon 800 rig.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Josephus
I had an Enermax 465... that thing ran hot and noisy, so I put in a system I sold and got a thermaltake... it's very quiet and very powerful... It's also cheaper than the Forton on Pricewatch (around $60 shipped)



Anadtech has an article on PSU's here

As expected, the Sparkle 120mm power supply had one of the lowest pitch levels (and thus we perceived it to be very quiet). However, it was the ThermalTake PurePower 480W that really took the prize. Even with both fans running, it was virtually undetectable. The Enermax EG465, Zalman 400W and Fortron 400W did very well also. (Keep in mind that the Enermax units were the warmest units in the previous test).

I do like the TT 480w . . . so silent it's scary.

:roll:

and only $63 shipped from NewEgg.

 

[pelikan]

I'd get the Seasonic Super Silencer 460W. It's available at Excaliber, and there's a review of the 400W model at SPCR. It's got very tight rails and is quiet.

 

[jrphoenix]

Originally posted by: Luthien
I purchased three Antec 550W PS recently from Newegg changing my mind from the Enermax solution because of the cost difference. Newegg sent me three and two were refurbished / used so I RMA them back stating I paid for retail etc. The new one I got is working fine. Anyone else ever have newegg try to scam them with used parts??? Newegg is starting to fall into the category of take your chances sites when it comes to ordering parts and they are now charging a lot more than they used to for shipping. I am dissapointed in newegg. It is a pain in the arse to RMA things and wait 2-3 weeks for parts you should already have had. Lucky for me I only needed one and the other two would have just been sitting around for a month or two waiting for further other system upgrades.

WOW...:Q I ordered some networking equipment (in anticipation of building a new system) a couple weeks ago and everything seemed fine. How did you know they were refurbished... were they out of the wrapper or did you see some kind of physical defect?

I just want to keep my eyes open for this???