Which of these combinations?

[Scour]

Erm, yes

http://geizhals.at/deutschland/515053

http://www.cougar-world.de/produkte/netzteile/cougar-se.html

 

[mfenn]

Today i built the machine 🙂

Asrock Z68 Pro3 (Updated to 1.60)
i5-2400
2x 4GB Corsair DDR 1333 Value
Cougar 400SE
Zotac GTX 560Ti

Win7 Home Premium (a Gamer dont need more 😉 )

Machine runs good the far, but Intel Boxed-Cooler doesnt sound nice.

One problem I still have, my Sharkoon Quickstore portable USB 3.0 hangs at copying files, cant end the task in the task-manager, cant soft-off the PC, only hold the Power-Button some seconds help

HDD runs ok on USB2.0.

Nice system. Did you install the ASRock XFast USB drivers?

wait. COUGAR PSU?!

Their European products are a lot better.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Supposedly, the "Cougar" PSUs in EU are better made than the units for sale under that same brand name here in the US of A.

 

[lehtv]

Machine runs good the far, but Intel Boxed-Cooler doesnt sound nice.

If the temps are fine you could create a lower RPM fan profile in the BIOS, I've heard

 

[Scour]

Nice system. Did you install the ASRock XFast USB drivers?

Their European products are a lot better.

No, but I can try it. Or cause this driver more probs. My friend don´t have an USB3.0-HDD, so he can live with that issue; but it would be nicer when it would work.

Didn´t know the non-european-Cougars, but the Cougar u can buy in Germany are mostly very good. Most of them can be highly recommended, even the cheaper A-series. The more expensive GX-series could almost match Enermax and Seasonic.

If the temps are fine you could create a lower RPM fan profile in the BIOS, I've heard

I can take a look 😉

But the guy who get this PC mostly play games and pump up the volume, he maybe never hear the fan 😉

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Supposedly, the "Cougar" PSUs in EU are better made than the units for sale under that same brand name here in the US of A.

Oh. he got me worriedD:

 

[Scour]

I just wonder about the CPU-Temp, it´s getting fast to 66° Celsius when I run Prime95; and the CPU-Cooler stays at 2000rpm

Tested today WinXP, no probs there with USB3.0 and the HDD

 

[lehtv]

Not bad temperature, though a small cooler at 2000rpm must sound terrible :E

 

[mfenn]

66C under load is good, no worries there. I'd imagine that the stock cooler is, ah, noticeable at that point though.

 

[Scour]

I think the max. temp für i5-2400 is 72,6° Celsius, not far away. Never had probs with AMD-Boxed-cooler, it never came so close to max. Temp of the CPU

 

[mfenn]

I think the max. temp für i5-2400 is 72,6° Celsius, not far away. Never had probs with AMD-Boxed-cooler, it never came so close to max. Temp of the CPU

There is some confusing information out there on Sandy Bridge's maximum safe temperature. TJmax is still 100C as far as I know.

The thermal management on these CPUs is so good that you will never ever hit that before it starts throttling anyway. Even if you run it in the open air.

 

[Scour]

Thanks for the info, thats nice 🙂

2day my friend get his new PC, he would make a hard Gamer-test, i guess 😉