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03-08-2007, 01:09 AM
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| The Executioner  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Infinite Abyss
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   |  Updated Power supply guide Guide to buying a Power supply. Updated As Of: 5/04/2008 ( Model or type ) after Brand will indicate specific models or comments. High End Workstations or servers, (This includes Multi Proccessor stations, data/web Servers or Video Studios/workshops) Apevia (Warlock 900W) ABS Tagan (ITZ1300 1300w ) Antec (TruePower Quattro 850 Watt) Cooler Master (Real Power Pro 1000 Watt) Silver Power (GuardianX SP-1000E) Super micro EPower (Xscale 1200 Watt) Enlight Enhance Corsair PC power and Cooling Zippy Etasis Enermax (Noisetaker and Galaxy Series) Ultra (X3 1000 Watt) Zumax (950 Watt X4) High End Gaming Computers, ( This includes CrossFire, Sli, phase change cooling/Water Cooling and or Heavy overclocking of RAM, CPU and Video Card(s) ) Apevia (Warlock 900W) ABS Tagan (ITZ1300 1300w ) Antec (TruePower Quattro 850 Watt) BeQuiet! (Dark Power Pro Models) PC Power and cooling Silverstone (Zeus models ST56ZF, ST75ZF, and ST85ZF) Silver Power (GuardianX SP-1000E) Seasonic (S-12, S-12E+, M-12 ) Corsair Cooler Master (Real Power Pro 1000 Watt) Etasis Enhance EPower (Xscale 1200 Watt) Enermax (Infiniti 720W) Enlight NorthQ (Giant Connector 850W) Gigabyte (Odin GT) Zippy Zumax (950 Watt X4) Enermax (Noisetaker Series) Thermaltake (Tough Power series only) Xclio (850W, Enhance Buil, Stable And GreatPower Models) Fortron (FSP) OCZ Technologies (Excluding Early ModStream Models and GameStream 700 Watt Model) Ultra (X3 Models Only, 1000 Watt) Zalman (ZM600-HP) High to Medium End Gaming or workstation PC's, (This includes High end video cards (Single) and moderate to high overclocking) Antec BeQuiet! (Dark Power Pro Models) Enermax (NoiseTaker And Infiniti 720W) OCZ Technology Fortron (FSP) Hiper (Type M and Type R Only, 670 and 730 Watts) Seasonic Sunbeam (NUUO 550W) Silverstone Gigabyte (Odin GT) Rosewill (Xtreme Series) PC Power and Cooling Corsair I-Star Tagan (Except EasyCon 530 Watt) Sparkle Enhance ThermalTake (ToughPower Line Only) Vantec Xclio (850W, Enhance Built, Stable And GreatPower Models) Ultra (X Finity, X3's Models, X Pro) Mushkin (Excluding HP-550 Model) NorthQ (Giant Connector 850W) Coolermaster (Real Power Series only) Fortron (FSP) Zalman (ZM600-HP) Medium to Low End Gaming machines. Antec AeroCool (Silver Line 550 Watt) BeQuiet! (Dark Power Pro Models) Enermax Coolmax (Green Line and Taurus Series) Ultra (X Finity, X3's Models, X Pro) Hiper (Type R and Type M only) Mushkin (Excluding HP-550 Model) Sunbeam (NUUO 550W) Fortron (FSP) Inwin (FSP Models Only) CoolerMaster (Real Power Series Only) OCZ Technologies xClio (Stable And GreatPower Models) Absolute Low End Builds or You're A Cheapskate. ThermalTake Fortron (FSP) Coolmax (Green Line And Taurus Series) Sunbeam AOpen AeroCool (Silver Line 550 Watt) Enhance (ENP-5140GH) Zalman Nexus Sparkle Rosewill Inwin (FSP Models only) Power-Man (FSP models only) Raidmax (Topower and Tagan Models only) The simple version: (Power supply brands will be listed From best to Acceptable in Desending order, Many brands will not be mentioned) Super Micro PC Power and cooling Etasis Zippy Seasonic Corsair Silverstone Enhance Coolermaster( High Wattage and Real Power Models Only) OCZ Technologies Tagan (Except EasyCon 530 Watt) Enermax Fortron (FSP) Antec Mushkin (Excluding HP-550 Model) Hiper (Type R and Type M only) Best Bang For Your Buck Honorable Mentions AeroCool Silver Line 550 Watt Corsair 450VX Corsair 520HX Enhance ENP-5140GH Rosewill RP500-2 PC Power & Cooling Silencer (470 Watt) COOLER MASTER eXtreme RP-500 SilverStone SST-ST60F SILVERSTONE ST400 FSP Group FX600-GLN FSP Group FX700-GLN ENERMAX Noisetaker II EG701AX XCLIO GREATPOWER X14S4P3 (550 Watt) Ste's Picks PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610 (All PC Power and Cooling Products as well, they all have long warranties..) Corsair 520HX (520 Watt) Enlight Sniper 5604724 (650 Watt) SeaSonic S12 Energy Plus SS-550HT (550 Watt) ETASIS ET750 (750 Watt) SILVERSTONE SST-ST75ZF (750 watt) Top Single 12V Railed Power Supplies All PC Power And Cooling Power Supplies (They don't screw around..) Silverstone (1200 Watt, 1000 Watt, 850 Watt, 800 Watt, 750 Watt, 650 Watt And 560 Watt) Corsair (750TX, 650TX, 550VX And 450VX) Rosewill (RP550) Explanation: Qouted right from PC Power And Cooling: Power Supply Myths Exposed! "With all the hype about multiple 12-volt rails (ads claim that two rails is better than one, five is better than four, etc.), you'd think it was a better design. Unfortunately, it's not! Here are the facts: A large, single 12-volt rail (without a 240VA limit) can transfer 100% of the 12-volt output from the PSU to the computer, while a multi-rail 12-volt design has distribution losses of up to 30% of the power supply's rating. Those losses occur because power literally gets "trapped" on under-utilized rails. For example, if the 12-volt rail that powers the CPU is rated for 17 amps and the CPU only uses 7A, the remaining 10A is unusable, since it is isolated from the rest of the system. Since the maximum current from any one 12-volt rail of a multiple-rail PSU is limited to 20 amps (240VA / 12 volts = 20 amps), PCs with high-performance components that draw over 20 amps from the same rail are subject to over-current shutdowns. With power requirements for multiple processors and graphics cards continuing to grow, the multiple-rail design, with its 240VA limit per rail, is basically obsolete." Some things you never knew about PC Power & Cooling!! Brands to Avoid Achieve Aerocool (Except Silver Line 550 Watt, For Only Low And Medium End Builds) Allied Apex Arrow Aspire Austin Apevia (Except Warlock 900W ) Codegen Coolmax ( Except Green Line and Taurus Series) Demon Deer Duro Dynapower Eagle EagleTech EPower (Except Xscale 1200 Watt) Foxlink Gigabyte (Except Odin GT) Hercules InWin ( Except FSP models) JustPC JEANTECH Key Mouse Kingwin L&C Logic Linkworld Macron Power MGE Mustang NorthQ ( Except Giant Connector 850W) OCZ Technologies ( Only ModStream And GameXStream Models) Okia Power-Man ( Except FSP models) Powmax Power-Up Powerstar QMax Qtec q-tec Raidmax ( Except Topower/Tagan models, not sold with cases) Silver Power (Except GuardianX SP-1000E) SunBeam (Except NUUO Models) Tagan (Only EasyCon 530 Watt) TMP-ANS Tsunami Turbo Turbolink Ultra ( Except X Finity, X3's Models And X Pro) Zumax (Except 950 Watt X4) Information consolodated and summarized from the following sources: http://forums.overclockersclub.com/?...ckersclub.com/ [H]ard|Forum - Powered by vBulletin EXTREME Overclocking Forums - Learn To Overclock Your PC Hardware Overclockers Forums - Powered by vBulletin AnandTech Tom's Hardware jonnyGURU's Personal Website Computer Power Supplies, ATX Power Supplies - PC Power & Cooling Power | Hardware Secrets My Own Opinion Was Included
__________________ Read The Rules!! Power Supply Guide Intel Overclocking Thread AMD Overclocking Thread Other Important Threads There will come a day, such a day when all will be told more than they wish to know, what one hears may explain the past, it may explain the future, but it has never made a difference either way and it will change nothing. Some day.... But that is not this day, and I don't know when, I just don't know. Last edited by Ste : 05-04-2008 at 04:58 PM. |
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03-08-2007, 01:51 AM
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| Multicellular Eukaryote  Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Re: Updated Power supply guide Thread stickied. Quote:
All of the real power series (including 450W) are quite reliable. my 450W Cooler Master could handle my overclocked 4600+, and voltmodded 7950 GT quite stably.
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03-08-2007, 01:56 AM
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| The Executioner Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Infinite Abyss
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| Re: Re: Updated Power supply guide Quote:
He said that through his experience that the higher end models are those that which haven't caused him or people he knew peoples... He goes through alot of hardware for testing purposes. Hes a beta tester and recieves many components for free or reduced price. He even had the ATI 2900 cards a month or so early for testing.. Not to say you had better experiences with them.. If it make you happy I could add coolermaster to the lower and medium builds..
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03-08-2007, 02:02 AM
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| Multicellular Eukaryote Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Re: Re: Re: Updated Power supply guide Quote:
you can't discredit an entire range of a product because one person says they aren't quite as good, even if they do know what they're talking about. I realise my experience is just one of many, but you can quite easily google some reviews for Cooler Master PSU's. The one's I've see rate them pretty high.
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03-08-2007, 02:05 AM
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| The Executioner Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Infinite Abyss
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__________________ Read The Rules!! Power Supply Guide Intel Overclocking Thread AMD Overclocking Thread Other Important Threads There will come a day, such a day when all will be told more than they wish to know, what one hears may explain the past, it may explain the future, but it has never made a difference either way and it will change nothing. Some day.... But that is not this day, and I don't know when, I just don't know. |
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03-08-2007, 02:29 AM
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| The Executioner Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Infinite Abyss
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| As In I edited Original post to add Coolermaster..
__________________ Read The Rules!! Power Supply Guide Intel Overclocking Thread AMD Overclocking Thread Other Important Threads There will come a day, such a day when all will be told more than they wish to know, what one hears may explain the past, it may explain the future, but it has never made a difference either way and it will change nothing. Some day.... But that is not this day, and I don't know when, I just don't know. |
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03-11-2007, 06:18 PM
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| EagleMod  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Bolingbrook, IL - USA
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 | Re: Updated Power supply guide Quote:
Good work on the compilation of PSU's Ste Might be good to mention also that some Proprietary PSU's arefairly robust as well.... my Shuttle's PSU is 300W and powering everything in my Sig (gaming computer).
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03-11-2007, 06:36 PM
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| Monster Techie Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Massachusetts
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| You spelt gaming wrong, like 2 times or so. I sort of disagree with this a lot, I could recommend tons of PSU's from the "Medium to low end" that would do fine on a high end single or double card setup.
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03-11-2007, 06:45 PM
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| Renowned Budgeting Master  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Uniontown, PA
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| All of the PSU's on this list came from trusted sources. It's not to say that the ones you think of WONT work but ones that you should be using from experience. As he stated this isn't just his thoughts but come from trusted sites and I agree.
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