PSU Guide

[h3llb3nd4]

In Durbs, Westville...
I send you a pic just now

 

[h3llb3nd4]

Man I cant resize my pics!!!
K basically I just added fans whereever I had a place to fit them.
Goes in at the front and side...goes out at the rear.

 

[BradleyKZN]

Yeah I was just wondering because of the front grills being so open, what the effect of them will be, my pc overheated twice on Saturday because of the heat, this damn Eshowe!

 

[BradleyKZN]

My Gigabyte has been ordered and is on its way! Will be here tomorrow! Then its a CPU upgrade and Im all set

 

[TechnoHolic_Tim]

New Power Supply

I hav just bought a cupel of raptors (74GB) and another 3870 graphics card. i have a corsiar vx550w power supply and when i use the extreme power supply calculator it came out as 646!. if i put in my current speck it says 558 so much on an over exaggeration is 646? any recommended psu that i should get as a replacement? im running tight on cash not that i just bought a cupel of raptors and a 3870.

System Speck will be:
intel q9400 oc from 2.6 tp 3.2 same vcore, asus p5e3 premium, xp pro, wd raptor (74GB) raid 0, WD 500GB, 2 1GB sticks of ocz ddr3-1066, ati sapphire 3870 512mb, MSI 3870 512mb factory OC, Sound blaster X-Fi and for a short time only corsair vx550w.

i not there are lodes of good power supplies but find researching then confusing, Watts and apps and the labels often lie!
if someone could give some advice on what PSU to use id be vary happy!

 

[Flyordie]

SeaSonic, Antec, Corsair and PC Power and Cooling are 1st Tier. ThermalTake, BFG and Cooler Master are 2nd Tier. Athena Power, TopPower and Apevia are 3rd Tier.

(1st Tier = Best, 2nd Tier = Middle of the road, some good, some bad and 3rd Tier = avoid at all costs pretty much)

 

[JrRacinFan]

@Tim

IMO, your current power supply will be fine.

 

[TechnoHolic_Tim]

Spike??

Im just worried that my PSU will fail and spike, destroying everything. is the corsair vx550w likely 2 do this?

 

[mlee49]

Heck No! Corsair's are stable psu's. They have excellent units but they do rename their boxes as they do not officially make their own.

 

[TechnoHolic_Tim]

kk cool so i should just run the new set up with the corsair and if i need more power then upgrade. thanks

 

[Flyordie]

550VX is good. ;-)

 

[p_o_s_pc]

if you get a new PSU also you can look into Silverstone they make some solid PSUs also so does OCZ

 

[suraswami]

I know Ultra earned bad name for their PSUs, but how are the new generation PSUs?

Anybody know what Manufacturer they are using.

I am getting a replacement and this is what I will be getting

http://www.ultraproducts.com/product_details.php?cPath=103&pPath=653&productID=654

Seems decent.

 

[p_o_s_pc]

the new ultra PSUs are decent but not the best

 

[AUTOgod]

is there any chance of an update on the first post?
since thats what most people see and there are 18 pages of posts.

it was last updated 26th of december 2007, getting on for 18 months ago.

for example, i popped the lid off of my Hiper, only to find that it has no Andyson branding, and instead appears to be made by Hiper themselves.

 

[TechnoHolic_Tim]

just incase any1 was wondering, my psu wasn't great enough for my crossfire and 3.6 Q9400, ordered a corsair tx 750w.

 

[shadowdemonkid]

Question, I have two PSU's: A chiefmax PSU 500W with 28A across a 12v rail and a Thermaltake TR2 Cable Management 550W with 16A across on one 12v rail and 17A on another. Which PSU is better to run a AGP Radeon 3850 or X1950 Pro since these cards need 30A.

 

[p_o_s_pc]

Question, I have two PSU's: A chiefmax PSU 500W with 28A across a 12v rail and a Thermaltake TR2 Cable Management 550W with 16A across on one 12v rail and 17A on another. Which PSU is better to run a AGP Radeon 3850 or X1950 Pro since these cards need 30A.

if there both just sitting around then the Tt if you are using the Tt in another rig then the Chiefmax should work just fine

EDIT: after looking DON'T USE THE CHIEFMAX they are SHIT!(sorry no other way to put it) throw the Chief out and use the Tt

 

[shadowdemonkid]

Cool

 

[TechnoHolic_Tim]

we that depends on the Thermaltake TR2 550, you say it has 2 12v rails but does it really? alot of psu's say that they hav multiple 12v rails but r just a single rail that wired into 2 or 3 rails.
google some reviews and try and find out the secrets of the Thermaltake TR2 550.
have you tried any of them in your pc yet?
i would suggest putting both on ebay then getting a corsair vx 550 or higher. i just sold my vx 550 on ebay for £40 + £10 p&p . my vx 550 was running 2 3870's PCI-e, Q9400 no OC, 2 raptors (74GB) and a 500 WD all sata on a single 41A 12v rail. wasn't enough power to overclock. as the psu was top quality, i was drawing more than 550 w out of it but it was still clean power. the only down side is that the vx and my tx series are not modular.
the vx 550w on £70 ebuyer

 

[shadowdemonkid]

Cool. I'll look up the PSU

 

[Wile E]

we that depends on the Thermaltake TR2 550, you say it has 2 12v rails but does it really? alot of psu's say that they hav multiple 12v rails but r just a single rail that wired into 2 or 3 rails.
google some reviews and try and find out the secrets of the Thermaltake TR2 550.
have you tried any of them in your pc yet?
i would suggest putting both on ebay then getting a corsair vx 550 or higher. i just sold my vx 550 on ebay for £40 + £10 p&p . my vx 550 was running 2 3870's PCI-e, Q9400 no OC, 2 raptors (74GB) and a 500 WD all sata on a single 41A 12v rail. wasn't enough power to overclock. as the psu was top quality, i was drawing more than 550 w out of it but it was still clean power. the only down side is that the vx and my tx series are not modular.
the vx 550w on £70 ebuyer

It doesn't matter if it has 2 rails or not. All that matters is what amperage it can put out total on the 12V lines.

But I agree with the rest. He should grab a quality unit instead, like the Corsair you mentioned. Burn the Chiefmax while he's at it. lol.

 

[TechnoHolic_Tim]

i disagree. it all depends on how the psu is made, in theory if you try and draw more than the amperage on ether rails it should shut down.
anyway, i would recommend single 12v rail psu over multiple rail psu because,independent 12s power supplies are virtually impossible to find so you ether;
buy a psu with a single INTERNAL 12v rail and multiple EXTERNAL 12v rails with there own current limiters.
or
get a single internal 12v and single external 12v rail with current limiter on that rail.

the single rail option is therefore more flexible but the multiple rail MIGHT give a cleaner out put.

 

[Inioch]

Do you guys have any knowledge of AcBel psu's. Mine is a Cooler Master Real Power M700, and I was planning on adding another 4870 for some crossfire. I read some stuff on using it for cf, but I'd like some insights from here too.

The problem is, that the psu only has 2x6-pin pci-e, and both cards require 2 of these. I was planning on using adapters, so that both cards would have 1x6-pin from the dedicated ones, and one using an adapter.

The psu has 4x19A (52A combined) 12V rails by specs, but how are these divided?
1 for cpu, 1 for each pci-e and 1 for the rest?
So how should I attach the adapters? Each having their own dedicated modular cable from the psu?

Hope you understood what I'm after here.

 

[Inioch]

Anyone?