Is Seasonic any good for PSU's?

[smthmlk]

Originally posted by: ViRaLRuSh
Had one in box for awhile now from a deal. 350W

I plan to put it in when put in my Radeon X850 XT 256MB card.

Will this psu be good enough for it? the Req's say 350W.

If it's a seasonic, it will be fine. I would not say that with many other brands of psu's, but Seasonic is a top brand, with top-shelf quality. Just be sure it has around 17-18A or more on the 12V rail and you'll be fine. If you could also note your system specs in full, that would help us help you

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: Bobthelost

Originally posted by: Broly

I'm sure someone can find you a great deal for a seasonic 500 or 600 watt, but I would suggest not doing it otherwise some capacitators may leak or something else may happen

REgards.

Why do capacitors leak again?

There is no need at all for a 500W PSU for an 850 unless there's a shed load of other gubbins in there too (8HDs, 5DVDRW and a fridge).

another myth...

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: Bobthelost
The efficency does tend to drop off over 80% of max rated load, but it's not more than 5% or so for the most part.

if you are using a crappy PSU that was tested at 25c instead of 40c or 50c.....the returns diminish rapidly....

Say you have a 350 watt PSU that was tested at 25c........then as the tempewratures go up and once they hit even say 35c.....your 350 watt PSU is actually now a 250 watt PSU...

It pays to get a PSU that was tested and rated so many watts as 40c - 50c....

 

[Bobthelost]

Like a seasonic?

 

[ViRaLRuSh]

Originally posted by: smthmlk

Originally posted by: ViRaLRuSh
Had one in box for awhile now from a deal. 350W

I plan to put it in when put in my Radeon X850 XT 256MB card.

Will this psu be good enough for it? the Req's say 350W.

If it's a seasonic, it will be fine. I would not say that with many other brands of psu's, but Seasonic is a top brand, with top-shelf quality. Just be sure it has around 17-18A or more on the 12V rail and you'll be fine. If you could also note your system specs in full, that would help us help you

3.0 pentium 4 HT
1gig pc3200

 

[AliasX]

I am going to be running an AMD Athlon X2 4400+, an Nvidia 7800GT, 1 Hard Drive, 2 disk drives, 2 gigs of OCZ RAM, and possibly a floppy drive.

I have a generic 420watt PSU that came with http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811156135

Should I buy a new PSU, or give it a shot for a while with this one?>

What exactly could get damaged if the PSU didn't work?

 

[Bobthelost]

*gives AliasX an evil glare*

We covered this in your own thread.

 

[ViRaLRuSh]

so my system will be good with so few items right?

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Power supply calculator

Plug in your components and find your max load watts required, then up it by 30% IMO

 

[BW86]

350W's is more than enough.

I have an Antec 350W.

I'm running:
2 Harddrives
1 CDROM Burner
1 DVD Burner
Athlon 64 3200 NC @ 2.55ghz
X800XTPE

no problems

 

[SparkyJJO]

PSU calculator

use that, select your general hardware setup, put PSU utilization at 100% (for a buffer) and that'll give you a good idea whether its big enough or not

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Your 350W Seasonic should be fine, but if you want to upgrade a lot, you might want to get a new PSU.

 

[Arcanedeath]

As long as you don't have more than 4 drives or a more that 4 Case fans or some combo thereof you should be fine

 

[ViRaLRuSh]

oh i forgot i have 3 fans total hooked up also, that ok?

 

[fireontheway]

Originally posted by: ViRaLRuSh
oh i forgot i have 3 fans total hooked up also, that ok?

Yes.

 

[kiIIxthexIights]

im pretty sure it will be fine.