Cheap psus, ur personal experience

Nameite said:
lol u beat me to it, was busy looking for that site
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Hehe :p

I remembered about that site and also went looking for it. But I knew where to look! I posted about it some time ago and I remember using the word normalized in the post. Was dead easy to find :D
 
ld13 said:
Prove you wrong? Easy. It is working - enough proof.
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Smoke one cigg, see no cancer "yay, ciggs don't cause cancer!" :p

Remember, if it can pull 300W on its own does not mean it will. 2 Different things.
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Which is why I said 225W - 300W, not 300W :p

Just have a look here. It peaks at about ~300W consumption for the whole machine. That PC outdoes my specs by quite a bit so I am not fazed.

I went to this site before getting the HD4870 to see if my 460W would be able to handle it. They have normalized usage figures for almost every card ever made - and it is quite accurate imo. It shows my card using sub 150W at Peak. My rails are safe :)
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Fair enough, I just find it weird that ati would pop on a 6pin and 8pin on a card that only needed an 8pin and still had OC headroom with it.

I estimated the PSU is about ~70% efficient so that gives me 322W. My total PC consumption estimation was sub 280W. I'm still ok for a few years or so. Yea, I'm not expecting it to be able to power this system for ever and ever. It'll run out of juice with aging etc etc. Still quite a bit away from my limit though. :D

I'll check out my UPS software out sometime to see what consumption it reports...
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I want a wattage meter :(

Nameite said:
Dont worry dude, according this this http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/forums.asp?s=2&c=7&t=9354&p=0
the 4870 only chows 130w at max
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see above :p

And i believe it coz mt 3850 is running off my 300w psu
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LOL, that's scary :p
 
Buy a top-end power supply 1st time around if you can. Bought an Enermax 650 about 5 years ago. Went in my original Athlon build. I then re-used the PS for my Opty 175 with 6600GT + 4 HDs + CD/DVD Burner. Overclocks worked fine too. Swapped it for a week for a Thermaltake 650 but PC kept rebooting. Got Enermax back and problem was solved.

I was moving the PC about a year ago and left it in the lounge. The kid flicked the voltage sector switch to 110V. PS went up in smoke when I switched on. NO harm to processor or MB. Guess a good PSU has the proper protection onboard too.

Replaced it with a Coolermaster 650W Extreme (needed PC over the weekend so I rushed out and bought what I could find - Enermax also a bit pricey) Works OK but I had strange PC hangs with 4 drives so I took one out. PC seems alright now.

Enermax was definitely in a different class. If you can, spend on quality now cos it will last you for at least 2 PC builds.

Cyberdyne used to sell Enermax but I dont think they do anymore. They do stock Seasonic which also gets fairly good ratings.
 
Nameite said:
Well nothing else fits into my nsk3300 except for the oem seasonic su-300 psu unless I mod it and drill it.

the amp rating is quite high for this little 300w, 12v+ = 22.5amps :D
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Lol...that's one interesting lil PSU :p 270W on the 12V. hehe
 
ld13 said:
I got this 460W before I got the rest of my system so I tried it out on my blown motherboard. It was dead silent even when I plugged the case fans out. I heard the other PC in the room more than this PSU right in front of me. I had to concentrate to even pick up that the PC was on.

At the moment the loudness from high to low is CPU FAN > 3D Card > Case Fans > PSU Fan

It is a winner :)
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hey i got my 460 coolermaster today the thing is whisper quiet!!! :) great.. thanks for the advice, i cant even hear it!!!!
 
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