Planning to buy Tagan BZ Series.....

[knightrider]

Planning to buy Tagan BZ Series 1100W Power supply.
Need feedback about the preformance

thanks in advance

 

[HOOfan 1]

It is made by TOPOWER, so you pay alot of money for "MEH" performance, and "MEH" build quality.

Meh meaning mediocre

 

[jonnyGURU]

The Tagan is certainly a nice looking power supply and performs fairly decently, but it is VERY expensive for what you get.

Do you actually NEED an 1100W? Are you powering three way SLI or something?

Because you can get equal build quality and features (light up, modular, "pipe-rock" connectors) in a 800W unit that has the power and connectors to run a pair of GX2's on a dual processor machine with RAID.

Seriously.

 

[DSF]

Knightrider, what attracts you to Tagan's BZ series? I see that you own one already and I saw you recommending the 700W version to someone the other day. Any particular reason? As others have said, there are better supplies out there for the money, not to mention that you seem to overestimate your power needs by a considerable margin.

 

[HOOfan 1]

Originally posted by: DSF
Knightrider, what attracts you to Tagan's BZ series? I see that you own one already and I saw you recommending the 700W version to someone the other day. Any particular reason? As others have said, there are better supplies out there for the money, not to mention that you seem to overestimate your power needs by a considerable margin.

My guess is the colored lights, which like the racing stripes on the Antec Truepower Quattro, make it go faster...or umm put out more power :roll:

 

[knightrider]

DSF, I own a 900W for my 2way SLI system.

A friend of mine wants a gaming PC also supporting high-end 3D applications.
He is planning to get 2/3way SLI on a XFX board.
Hard drives: 3 (dont ask me why)
Westinghouse 42inch Display

Spending huge money on system, I dont think he should compromise on Power supply.

 

[HOOfan 1]

Originally posted by: knightrider
Spending huge money on system, I dont think he should compromise on Power supply.

Then he should buy something better than a Tagan...or any other Topower built PSU.

BFG ES-800
Corsair HX1000
OCZ EliteXstream 1000 Watt
Zalman HP-850


All of them are cheaper and better than the Tagan

 

[DSF]

Originally posted by: knightrider
DSF, I own a 900W for my 2way SLI system.

A friend of mine wants a gaming PC also supporting high-end 3D applications.
He is planning to get 2/3way SLI on a XFX board.
Hard drives: 3 (dont ask me why)
Westinghouse 42inch Display

Spending huge money on system, I dont think he should compromise on Power supply.

900W isn't necessary even if you want to put 2 GTXs in SLI. Anyhow, that's neither here nor there. It still didn't answer why you're dead set on Tagan. I'm not trying to pick on you, I'm just curious.

 

[jonnyGURU]

My guess is just mindset in his part of the country. Remember, outside of the US, Tagan was the first and foremost in the enthusiast PSU market. And because they have such a long market presense and strong marketing, a lot of tech companies that are a little behind the curve on knowing/understanding the PSU industry still use Tagan despite the fact that there are better/cheaper options (although I wouldn't say the Tagan is necessarily "bad".)

For example: At Nvidia, they give technologies like Hybrid SLI and ESA to non-partners like Tagan before others. At NV Tech, they had three PC's using Tagan BZ power supplies of varying wattage. It's all mind share. Nothing more.

 

[HOOfan 1]

Yeah I have seen numerous people talk about Tagan as if it was the be all end all.

No doubt about it, the ABS Tagan BZ series are some good looking PSUs, and looking around the web, I have seen many people using them. However, they are just too overpriced for what they are.

Everyone has their own priorities, but at the top of my heirarchy of buying equipment is "performance". Then "cost" and "appearance" kind of share equal footing.

 

[knightrider]

Hi,

I gave my friend the below options
BFG ES-800
Corsair HX1000
OCZ EliteXstream 1000 Watt
Zalman HP-850

Now let him decide

 

[jonnyGURU]

You can leave the Tagan on there. It's his money. His decision. I personally don't feel it's a bad option. It's just an over-priced one. But people ARE willing to spend the money for it. I just don't think he needs 1000W+.

 

[tomoyo]

Originally posted by: jonnyGURU
You can leave the Tagan on there. It's his money. His decision. I personally don't feel it's a bad option. It's just an over-priced one. But people ARE willing to spend the money for it. I just don't think he needs 1000W+.

Honestly does anyone need 1000W+? I can't think of a single scenario with standard off the shelf pc parts that would require so much. Obviously if you make a quad cpu, quad core sytem with 10 hard drives and triple sli, that might be another story, but that's not standard

 

[jonnyGURU]

D10U uses even more power per card than the dual GPU 9800 GX2. So if you had three of those in tri-SLI with dual processors... 1000W wouldn't even let you run 3DM'06, never mind a DX10 game.