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Yet another PSU Thread

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vrbaba

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Price needs to be 100 max... or somewhere in the area. Will NOT pay 150 for it.

I have a Radeon 9600 Pro, 2 hard drives, max 2 dvd drives, abit is7 mobo, turtle beach sound card, HDTV Tuner, ddr 500 ram dual channel 1gb total. p4 2.8ghz. zalman cooler, thermaltake chipset cooler....

So some calculater mentioned at Howard's PSU thread (referring the right person, i think) suggested about 303W max load.

I had an Antec 350W Tru Power which blew out its capacitors after a solid run for about 3.5-4 years. I still have no idea why/how it would happen, as back then, Antec was one of the best. From my initial search, looks like Seasonic, Enhance and OCZ have become the eladers now. PPl mentoined Seasonic is pretty quiet,.... quietness is preferable if that narrows my search a bit.

I am considering a 400-450W supply to be safe this time. And any insight as to what happened with Antec is welcome.

Since i dont have a lot of time to invest, i did the search i could and mostly found ppl suggesting 500-700W psu's which i really dont have a need for. Thus this thread...hopefully its not redundant as many of the other PSU threads.

thanks guys!

EDIT: forgot to mention i had it overclocked at 3.2-3.3 GHz. still 350W was/is more than enough.
 
PSUs die of old age. Even the best ones degrade with age as the capacitors expand and contract due to heating and cooling. 3.5-4 years is a reasonable timeframe and as long as it didn't damage anything else i wouldn't be too pissed at it.

Get yourself a 380W or 400W one, the seasonic 380W is $72 from newegg i think or if you want to save money the FSP 400W for under $50 is pretty decent.
 
Originally posted by: Bobthelost
PSUs die of old age. Even the best ones degrade with age as the capacitors expand and contract due to heating and cooling. 3.5-4 years is a reasonable timeframe and as long as it didn't damage anything else i wouldn't be too pissed at it.

Get yourself a 380W or 400W one, the seasonic 380W is $72 from newegg i think or if you want to save money the FSP 400W for under $50 is pretty decent.
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Ah, good to know their lifetime. I really hope it didnt screw anything else up. i am about to pick up a temporary PSu from FRYs and check it out.

If Seasonic is really as quite as ppl say it is... i am more inclined to buy that. but at this point... price is an issue. i would spend 20 extra bucks for a cheap cpu, but not 50+. The mentioned Enermax is 110.. and is 500W. Is it really worth the extra bucks over the other PSUs when i wont be using 200Ws of it.
Any other reviews or votes for the mentioned PSUs?
 
There is no advantage to having an overspeced PSU, except that in the future you may be able to carry it over to an upgraded system or if you plan to upgrade the graphics card or CPU to a more power hungry version.

Seasonic are very quiet indeed. But so are a lot of other brands, none of the ones that get recomended regulary will sound like a vacume cleaner.

That liberty is too much, that's capable of running P4D SLI computers. A 400W Enermax is around $80 and isn't a bad choice at all.
 
Originally posted by: Bobthelost
There is no advantage to having an overspeced PSU, except that in the future you may be able to carry it over to an upgraded system or if you plan to upgrade the graphics card or CPU to a more power hungry version.

Seasonic are very quiet indeed. But so are a lot of other brands, none of the ones that get recomended regulary will sound like a vacume cleaner.

That liberty is too much, that's capable of running P4D SLI computers. A 400W Enermax is around $80 and isn't a bad choice at all.
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it'll be under his $100 max limit after rebate and
I have a Radeon 9600 Pro, 2 hard drives, max 2 dvd drives, abit is7 mobo, turtle beach sound card, HDTV Tuner, ddr 500 ram dual channel 1gb total. p4 2.8ghz. zalman cooler, thermaltake chipset cooler....
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like I noticed before in other builds ..a psu overspec'd does have its advantages of not being overly taxed ..its your hardware ..gl on whichever psu you select 🙂
 
Bobthelost, http://www.jedec.org/ considers 5 year service life for desktop hardware and 10 years for server/workstation hardware acceptable. Anything less than 5 years out of a consumer PSU is a bad thing.

Zippy/Emacs, Delta and Etasis server SMPS last >>10 years easy 😉

vrbaba, Froogle the Enhance ENP-5140GH for< $60. Certed at http://www.80plus.org/ , specs at http://www.enhanceusa.com/ (12V combined IS 28A), got a positive review at http://www.jonnyguru.com/

I just bought one to replace Sister's 5+year old Fortron. 😀


...Galvanized
 
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