What's the worst PSU you have managed to run a 6800, 7800, X1800 or X1900 on stable?

[jiffylube1024]

Define worst: bad quality brand or lowest rated?

I've run a full blown overclocked Athlon64 system with a 7800GT with an Enermax 350W PSU, yet most generic 400's struggle to power even overclocked Athlon XP systems.

 

[SuinusLatinus]

I've an Asus x1800xt with a Seasonic S12 500W. The rest of the system is:

MSI K8N Neo3 nforce4
2x512 MB ram OCZ PC3700 EB
AMD64 3200+ (Clawhammer skt754)
X-Fi XtremeMusic
1 Seagate 7200 60GB (pata)
1 WD Raptor 36GB (sata)
1 DVDRW NEC 3520A
1 floppy Samsung
Coolermaster Stacker with lots of fans

 

[beggerking]

Originally posted by: bamacre

Originally posted by: Bucksnort

1) Dell and a couple other OEMs use better quality per watt PSU than you buy from, oh Enermax or Antec. There's a big difference in retail marketed PSUs and OEM. OEMs aren't fooled by fake ratings

This is the most unintelligent post today. Today hell, maybe ever. Coffee coming out my nostrils.

No, it's not. Dell does not rate their PSU's on max output. Any consumer Dell with a PCIe x16 slot has a PSU capable of running any video card on the market. My dell runs my 7800 GTX just fine.

I 2nd that. Dell has nice PSUs..silent too

 

[Crescent13]

I ran a 6600GT on a no-name 300W PSU for a year, of course, at the end of the year the hard drive had been killed because of unconsistent power supply, but...

 

[GeeFizzleDizzle]

This thread makes me feel a bit better about the upgrades I'm getting ready to buy.

I have an Antec 350W PSU with 15a on the +12v rail and I'm getting ready to order an AMD Athlon64 3000+ socket 939 CPU, 1GB of PC3200 RAM, Asrock socket 939 mobo and a 256MB eVGA 7600GT CO PCI-E video card.

Those parts pretty much eat up all of my current budget and I was kind of getting worried about not being able to afford a new PSU.

 

[rbV5]

My X1800XL runs nice and stable with the X-Qpack Aspire 420 watt PSU.
My X1800 Crossfire setup is powered by FSP AX400.

The FSP is a solid unit, certainly not a "worst" by any means. The Aspire suprised me since it "feels" pretty cheap, but its been stable.

Rigs are in my sigs, both have multiple TV Tuners and hardrives, the Crossfire Rig also has an overclocked AMD64 X2.

 

[rstrohkirch]

Originally posted by: videopho

Originally posted by: bamacre

Originally posted by: Bucksnort

1) Dell and a couple other OEMs use better quality per watt PSU than you buy from, oh Enermax or Antec. There's a big difference in retail marketed PSUs and OEM. OEMs aren't fooled by fake ratings

This is the most unintelligent post today. Today hell, maybe ever. Coffee coming out my nostrils.

No, it's not. Dell does not rate their PSU's on max output. Any consumer Dell with a PCIe x16 slot has a PSU capable of running any video card on the market. My dell runs my 7800 GTX just fine.

Your statement "just fine" is a relative term. It depends all what you do with your PC. Running latest games with all eyecandies turned on like FEAR, COD2 etc. The Dell like mine quicky turns or becomes retarded with a weak psu (480w). Whereas my rig AMD with 600w psu is like "Is it all you've got?". Go to Dell forum sites where you'll see for yourself that there are way too many Dell users are crying out with the weak psu and poor performance on a very hi end video cards such as XT1900 or 7800GTX.

Please
Inform me of whatever factual information you've used to concluded that either one of those pc's in your sig use anything more then 350-375w at max output. So much infact, that your "weak" 480w just couldn't handle the burden.