Psu?

Deep Blue

The BOFH
Staff member
Yeah

Recommended wattage levels are a load of BS

I'm running an AMD64 3500 on an asus a8n sli deluxe with two geforce 6600GT's, two optical drives, two hard drives on a 350 watt enermax, been running for years, best suggestion:

Buy a decent powersupply that is efficient and stable, I only used a 350 because I had it spare and its worked flawlessly

You should however try and get something that is recommended, but dont spend ?100's on it...
 

Pinje

New Member
I bought a 480antec true blue, finding out from nep if i really need a bigger psu.. or if the mobos shit faced
 

Greeny

New Member
Recommended wattage levels are hardly BS, you can damage components by having an under-powered PSU. Enermax being one of the slightly better brands runs *your* system fine, but the new systems require ultra beefy PSU's and to say otherwise is ridiculous and merely encourages people to purchase a 350W ?20 box of tin and wires to try and run a modern system (a very bad move).

PSU's from:
Fortran FSP (Sparkle)
Tagan
Seasonic
Q-Technology (not Q-tec or Q-tech)
PC P&C

Are about the best brands you can purchase... They cost a bit, but they're worth it.
 

Deep Blue

The BOFH
Staff member
Well over 12months down the line, no problems what so ever, if anyone has a kill-a-watt i'd be interested to see how much my PC was actually using!
 

Greeny

New Member
I've got several that have run for more than 5 years, their put together quite well internally. Lot's of pins falling off the wires, so I had to hard solder 'em, this is the only negative detractor though and it could be 'cos I'm a rough bastard. Nowadays their are superior brands in the same price range though.
 
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