How do you guys like the Tagan 480 W PSU?

[ManBearPig]

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=17-101-509&depa=0

What do you guys think?

 

[Operandi]

The PSU itself is great; very powerful and quiet; think OCZ minus the pointless bling. The downside is Tagan may be in trouble as support has said to be non-existent recently.

 

[Gamingphreek]

I agree with Operandi but the OCZ seems more robust (ie Higher Quality, And more power). Tagans are excellent PSU's that are very stable, i would say noise wise they are quieter than the OCZ by a little. I have been hearing things about their Customer Service though.

-Kevin

 

[Operandi]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
I agree with Operandi but the OCZ seems more robust (ie Higher Quality, And more power). Tagans are excellent PSU's that are very stable, i would say noise wise they are quieter than the OCZ by a little. I have been hearing things about their Customer Service though.

-Kevin

Well OCZ and Tagan are both made by Topower. In fact the high-end units are based on the same Topower unit so quality will be identical as it's effectively out of OCZ's and Tagan's hands.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Yes but IIRC OCZ just bases the design off of Topower, they then HEAVILY modify it though.

-Kevin

 

[Operandi]

That doesn?t affect quality; Topower still builds them so build quality remains the same which in my experience has been really good.

 

[ManBearPig]

Ive heard from MANY people it makes an annoying clicking sound...whats that all about? im getting rid of this one BECAUSE of that!

 

[Operandi]

Originally posted by: Heen05
Ive heard from MANY people it makes an annoying clicking sound...whats that all about? im getting rid of this one BECAUSE of that!

I've heard that a few of the first ones had fans that made a faint clicking, I haven't heard of the problem recently. Either way it's something you'd only notice if you system was very quiet to begin with.