Help narrowing a decision on PSU's

[L337Llama]

I wanna replace my aging 350 watter that came with my case with something more decent. I'm not looking to get a psu that's future proofed, just something that's rock steady for what I got.
Athlon XP mobile 2400running at 3200 settings, a vanilla 6800, 1gb of ram, 2 hdd, and one optical drive.

My budget is roughly 50+shipping. So far, I'm looking at
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817104954

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817159040

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817104935

They vary from 400-500 watts, I'm mostly interested in which one would be most stable or use better capcitors.

Thanks for any help

 

[balane]

This is the one I would get. Excellent PSU and very high quality for the money.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817189005

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

At $57.68 http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=PS-E5140GH

Reviewed http://www.jonnyguru.com/review_details.php?id=24

 

[Xarick]

Johnny guru says this is a very good no frills psu:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817101111

it also has an 8pin adapter which some mobos are now using which none of the other psus you looked at have.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

the OP's first or third linked psu's will be great for that system. i dont know about coolmax tho.

 

[John]

L337Llama, what's wrong with your current psu other than being old? A quality 300w psu will run your rig just fine. Save your money until you can afford a nice 80+ unit with a 3-5 year warranty.

 

[L337Llama]

I wanna replace it because the rails have been getting worse and worse, especially the 12v rail. When I upgrade in the future, I plan on making a new system and using this one for less intensive tasks, hence why I don't care very much about it having the absolute greatest in PSU stuff, just stability and enough power for what I got.

 

[smthmlk]

either of the fortrons you linked to would work fine. I would probably go with the FSP400 bluestorm.

 

[acegazda]

Originally posted by: GalvanizedYankee
At $57.68 http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=PS-E5140GH

Reviewed http://www.jonnyguru.com/review_details.php?id=24

true.dat homes.

balane do you have that psu? I'll bet you don't. Can you tell me what is so good about it?
OP: fortrons with the "ax" notation are of lesser quality than those with the "fsp" notation. This is because they are manufactured in a facility (fortron has like 4) that uses lower quality parts (sinks, caps, etc.) the enhance is more efficiant, quieter and probably more stable than the fsp400-thn, but if you want to buy from newegg, you could get the forton. I got the enhance from ewiz, no problems, great psu.

 

[L337Llama]

Per chance, does anybody know what brand capacitors the FSP blue storm psu uses, and how they compare to the ones in the Enhance?

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: John
L337Llama, what's wrong with your current psu other than being old? A quality 300w psu will run your rig just fine. Save your money until you can afford a nice 80+ unit with a 3-5 year warranty.

Please define what a quality 300watt PSU is?
Most 300 watt PSU`s are what you would get in a casa that comes with a PSU.....as in OKIA brand or TurboPower brand and the list goes on. None of which are quality!

Then again just because something is rated 80+ is not an enforsement of the quality of the parts used to manufacture the PSU.....
There are alot of good 80+ PSU`s on the market that are not rated by the 80+ website.
It`s nice that somethin g is 80+ in efficiency and also rated by the 80+ websitre people.

There are those who will tell you that the difference between 80+ and 75+ or even 72+ does not have any bearing on quality and or workmanship.

Good luck in your pursuit of a new PSU.......
You could run that rigg with a nice 400 or even 450 watt PSU which probably would even give you some headroom!!

Then again there are those who will post just to argue the 80+ point....heheeeee

Anand`s site Rox`s!!!