Cheap psus, ur personal experience

I have not had any problems with el cheapo PSUs. It's a calculated risk I guess. Besides...I don't have R1500 for a PSU that can potentially also blow/get fried by Eskom.
 
Actually I brought a case 6 years back that came with a 350w psu
only 8amps on 12v+

Ran an athlon 2000+ 1.66ghz
3 hdd
4 120mm fans
dvd writer
9250 AGP
network card
webcam etc

That thing died on me after 2years, though nothing else fried.
 
Cheap psu == cheap way to blow your pc/ lose performance, yada yada.
 
ld13 said:
No. I have heard of one too many isonic PSU that went BOOM with the first boot. I'll stick with the brand name ones thx. :p
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I've only heard praises so far, looks like you might ignite a flame war...
 
d0b33 said:
I've only heard praises so far, looks like you might ignite a flame war...
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How so? Isonic is not exactly the best make on earth and there are no fanboys of them on this forum afaik - hence I do not understand how that statement can ignite one? If I wanted to start one in any case there are many other things I could say that would do just that...

eg. NVIDIA/ATI/ASUS/AMD/INTEL/Coke/woman is pure garbage and suck big time.

That is how one does it :D
 
Hit and miss:

- 350W Delta Electronics Inc bought in 2002 or thereabouts, is still going strong. Currently powering an AMD XP 2600+ (SocketA) with a Radeon 9500 Pro, for my younger sister.

- 450W Aopen PSU, died within 6 months.

- Antec SP2-450W, died after 18 months.

I prefer to get good quality units now though. Currently using a Corsair VX450, with a 5 year warranty.
 
Bottom line is you generally get what you pay for. That is the rule of thumb I live by when it comes to most things in life ;)
 
Grimspoon said:
Bottom line is you generally get what you pay for. That is the rule of thumb I live by when it comes to most things in life ;)
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Yeah, which is why you only have 2GB 800 RAM and not 8GB 1200! :D (Just thought I'd pull the you get what you pay for string)
 
spiderz said:
My cheep 500w (R299) PSU is still running. +-2years
Specs:
gigabyt DS3, E6700, 4gb Ram, 5x 320Gb sata, 2x 500gb sata, sata dvd-rw, 8600gt and about 6-7 fans :D
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Thanx

flarkit said:
Hit and miss:

- 350W Delta Electronics Inc bought in 2002 or thereabouts, is still going strong. Currently powering an AMD XP 2600+ (SocketA) with a Radeon 9500 Pro, for my younger sister.

- 450W Aopen PSU, died within 6 months.

- Antec SP2-450W, died after 18 months.

I prefer to get good quality units now though. Currently using a Corsair VX450, with a 5 year warranty.
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Thought Antec was a good make.

Yeah Aopen aint so great, they actually make unbranded units for other companies to brand.
Maybe even isonic? :p
 
Nameite said:
OK guys anymore?

So far we got 2 points for el cheapo psu and 2 points for name brands! :D
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You wanted to know if people with low requirements can get el cheapo psus. Well antec make 350W psus. :D

The only makes of psu I would buy are: Zalman, Antec and Corsair.

There could be other makes that are worth buying, but I'm too picky. I sat with all my pc parts without a psu for 2weeks till I could get a decent psu.

I own a Zalman HP-1 600W at the moment and I got my brother a Antec Neo He 550W psu for the pc I built for him.

I once had a buddy that had an el cheapo psu. When he benchmarked his pc he unplugged his lights to get more juice.

Was quite funny.
 
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