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TT Purepower 680W is a great PSU!

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McArra

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I'm updating my rig and this PSU is just great, completly silent and very stable. Rails have very good voltages 12.08-12.14V, 5.08V and 3.31V...

Really happy with it, I would recommend it for anyone looking for a very good PSU.
 
I had the Butterfly 480W, which would hardly fed up my 6800GT, 12V rail was working @11,6-11,4V so I was to buy a new MoBo, CPU and RAM to OC. Obviously the butterfly was nomore enough, so I decided I had to buy a new PSU. I wanted it to be as silent as the other one, but more powerfull and futureproof. This new one has 3 12V rails, is very powerfull, is more silent than the other was and had a nice price of 120?... That's why I bought it, and I couldn't be happier 😀
 
Your old 480W PSU wasn't enough to feed your rig?? That doesn't speak very well of those PSU's then. The Antec 480W I have has no issue feeding all my hardware, which is more than you have listed. I don't have the neon, but that shouldn't take that much power. Maybe if you didn't rice out your rig so much you could use a more realistic PSU.
 
Originally posted by: akira34
Your old 480W PSU wasn't enough to feed your rig?? That doesn't speak very well of those PSU's then. The Antec 480W I have has no issue feeding all my hardware, which is more than you have listed. I don't have the neon, but that shouldn't take that much power. Maybe if you didn't rice out your rig so much you could use a more realistic PSU.
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Don't get me wrong, it was a great PSU, but the 12V rail only had 18A, which of course is too low for new gen graphic cards. The new one has 2x15A and 1x8A 12V rails, which is plenty and very stable, and it isn't so expensive.

I don't know what rice out means (I'm a Basque guy learning English 😀). Anyway, I can tell you this PSU is worth the money...
 
Originally posted by: McArra
Originally posted by: akira34
Your old 480W PSU wasn't enough to feed your rig?? That doesn't speak very well of those PSU's then. The Antec 480W I have has no issue feeding all my hardware, which is more than you have listed. I don't have the neon, but that shouldn't take that much power. Maybe if you didn't rice out your rig so much you could use a more realistic PSU.
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Don't get me wrong, it was a great PSU, but the 12V rail only had 18A, which of course is too low for new gen graphic cards. The new one has 2x15A and 1x8A 12V rails, which is plenty and very stable, and it isn't so expensive.

I don't know what rice out means (I'm a Basque guy learning English 😀). Anyway, I can tell you this PSU is worth the money...
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Well you are wrong.... those PSU are anything but great, the fact it couldn?t run your modest system is testament to that. There are plenty of 350 watt PSU's with more 12v power.
 
This one at least is, and can keep up with anything you throw at it.

Here I can see too much ThermalHATE...
 
The Butterfly can run this system with no stability issues at all, but in 2 weeks I will receive my new TCCD Ram (566Mhz) and I gonna try high overclocks (around 2600Mhz) and I want the highest stability possible. I said futureproof, not presentproof...
 
Originally posted by: BW86
a little overkill eh?
an antec 350W could run that rig fine :laugh:
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Not only could it run that rig fine, it could run that rig SILENTLY... ^_^

Ah, I :heart: teh Antec Phantom
 
The 480W wasn't enough for your system? Perhaps it was a bad unit. I have a PurePower 420W running the Athlon 64 3200+ system in my signature, which seems to be pretty similar to yours. My system has been very stable, though I haven't overclocked it yet (3200+ is plenty fast right now!).

Oh well, as long as you're happy with your new power supply, that's all you should care about.
 
Dual rails, triple rails are pathetic inventions that do not work well with SLI and high-end graphics card. Just look into the motherboard forum.

Don't get tricked by the total amphere. The invididual rails still lack sufficient ampherage.


Originally posted by: McArra
Originally posted by: akira34
Don't get me wrong, it was a great PSU, but the 12V rail only had 18A, which of course is too low for new gen graphic cards. The new one has 2x15A and 1x8A 12V rails, which is plenty and very stable, and it isn't so expensive.

I don't know what rice out means (I'm a Basque guy learning English 😀). Anyway, I can tell you this PSU is worth the money...
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Originally posted by: fireontheway
Originally posted by: BW86
a little overkill eh?
an antec 350W could run that rig fine :laugh:
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Very true :
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Of course... My 480W Neo Power has no issue running MORE hardware.

BTW, mrscintilla, take away my name as the source of your last quote... That was made by McArra, not me...
 
Do you read all I say?? My 480W unit could run my computer stable, but 12V rail was a bit too low for ME, I had no prblems with it, and could have been a bad reading from my MoBo. But I feel a lot safer with a more powerfull unit for OCing, that's all, and maybe an ANTEC 350W can handle my system, but abviously my new PSU can handle this and is a lot more futureproof and it's JUST GREAT. If you can't see it this way there may be another problem there...

mrscintilla, I have read that topic, and people only say what they think but there's no proof at all of what they talk about, there's no review, or proof that probes dual and triple rails as a bad solution. In fact new units emerge, and this technology is getting strong... Show me proof that it isn't strong enough and I'll give you the reason...

And there are reviews in the web (all of them on my unit) that probe that this is a very good PSU, if you don't want to see it don't. Whether I need it or not is another thing, is my pocket's problem... and as long as it is stable, gives me what I have paid for and is silent I can see no problem, so don't continue that way.

The J, yes, I'm very happy, thanks for seeing it that way 😉
 
I haven't have a look at it Shady, I heard about it but didn't take a closer look on my unit since I'm using an AGP system. I'll have a look at it as soon as I can....
 
>I< am glad you are happy with it.

There is nothing wrong with the butterfly units, they are the better of the Tt PSUs. Its not like Tt even makes them so most of you guys are just spewing out Tt hatred to someone who obviously likes his. Thats lame. Antec hasn't been putting out the greatest psu's lately either. Not that they make them theirselves. If hes happy with his unit theres no reason to flame it.
 
I don't see the sense in dropping that much $$$ on the power supply as of now, while it sells at it's peak price, but I DO see the sense in getting a supply with plenty of surpluss power. You won't need an upgrade for many years to come (hopefully).
 
I can't help but laugh at people who buy thermaltake crap. Mind you, their smart fans are great... but thats about it.
 
Originally posted by: McArra
Do you read all I say?? My 480W unit could run my computer stable, but 12V rail was a bit too low for ME, I had no prblems with it, and could have been a bad reading from my MoBo. But I feel a lot safer with a more powerfull unit for OCing, that's all, and maybe an ANTEC 350W can handle my system, but abviously my new PSU can handle this and is a lot more futureproof and it's JUST GREAT. If you can't see it this way there may be another problem there...

mrscintilla, I have read that topic, and people only say what they think but there's no proof at all of what they talk about, there's no review, or proof that probes dual and triple rails as a bad solution. In fact new units emerge, and this technology is getting strong... Show me proof that it isn't strong enough and I'll give you the reason...

And there are reviews in the web (all of them on my unit) that probe that this is a very good PSU, if you don't want to see it don't. Whether I need it or not is another thing, is my pocket's problem... and as long as it is stable, gives me what I have paid for and is silent I can see no problem, so don't continue that way.

The J, yes, I'm very happy, thanks for seeing it that way 😉
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Right on target, McArra. :thumbsup:

 
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