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Weekend Open Forum: How powerful is your PSU?
In this edition of our Weekend Open Forum, we want to know what wattage your power supply is rated for. You can brag about your specific model in the comments if you want to, but we've embedded a poll after the jump with a number of options broken down by 100W increments. Feel free to say a few kind words about the unglamorous, yet faithful metal box that fuels your machine for weeks at a clip, or just bow your head in a moment of silence.
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I have a Be Quiet! 530 watts PSU, as an upgrade from my sweex 600 watt(=300 watt) PSU.
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Antec TruPower 2.0 550 Watts
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BMfan said:
Gigabyte Odin GT550had it for about 2yrs and still going strong.
Would like to upgrade to a Corsair HX650 some time later.
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4+yr old AcBel 400W. C2D E6300 and 9600GT. Other famous brands are not really available in my place.
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Enermax Noisetaker II 485W.
Previous main system had an Enermax Noisetaker 475W, both of them have been rock solid.
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I have a 500 watt PC Power and Cooling Silencer I pulled from my school's recycling pile. It works great, is really quiet, and is rated for up to 35 amps on the 12 volt rail, which is great for a 500 watt PSU.
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twojpodlysyn said:
500W Fortron (85%+)
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I'm using corsair AX 1200W Gold Series
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I got an OCZ GameXtream 750W powersupply... I had to choose between that one and a modular 650w Thermaltake... although I have a cable mess inside my case which truly hurts the airflow, I think I made the right choice since I need to power 2x 4830's + 1 4850 + Phenom II x4 955 overclocked...
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Mikymjr said:
I have a CoolMax CW-650t powering my Phenom II X3 710(overclocked), M3A79-T Deluxe, PowerColor Radeon 4890(overclocked), HDD, dvd burner and 6 led fans. I haven't had any problem with it since i bought it one and a half years ago. But stil i would like to go for a 750W-850W from corsair or thermaltake.
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HaMsTeYr said:
Antec TruePower 750W Semi Modular
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license27kill said:
i have thermaltake 430watts, and its working for me for ages now. ive tried diff. psu but this one makes my computing very easy and im so confident that if ever my pc will fail. iam confident that my psu is the last to break
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Main PC has a Kingwin 750w, one Dell has a PC Power&Cooling 500w, other 2 Dells have stock PS. All have performed fine up to this point.
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treeski said:
I have a 1200w Thermaltake Toughpower
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Superpeter said:
Kingwin Mach1 600w. +12v rails=2. It's been powering without a hiccup for 1&1/2 years now;A Phenom2x2 unlocked&overclocked to 3.8@1.5 volts,12 fans with four on a controller,XFX 5850 BE overclocked to 912/1212 @1.11v, A Nmedia pc 5.25in bay readout screen, A Samsung Blu-ray drive and a Lite-On drive,A 80g SSD (intel) and a 1tb drive (samsung)
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Superpeter said:Superpeter said:
Kingwin Mach1 600w. +12v rails=2. It's been powering without a hiccup for 1&1/2 years now;A Phenom2x2 unlocked&overclocked to 3.8@1.5 volts,12 fans with four on a controller,XFX 5850 BE overclocked to 912/1212 @1.11v, A Nmedia pc 5.25in bay readout screen, A Samsung Blu-ray drive and a Lite-On drive,A 80g SSD (intel) and a 1tb drive (samsung)
Its also powering 8g ram in a Raidmax smilodon mid case that has lights itself along with 5 of my 12 fans.
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Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1200w.
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I used to have an antec P192 casing and ran a setup with Corsair HX 520 + 650.
Now ive build a new rig in the Corsair 800D and only using 1 psu which is the HX850.
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450W Frontier - Made in China
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Staff
I have a Corsair TX650W powering my rig
It's more than enough even with quite heavy overclocking...
Never seen it pull more than even 400w DC
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BabyFaceLee said:
Good grief. Not into going green then. :o
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TekGun said:
I have just upgraded to an Antec True Power Quattro 1000, which surprisingly is the same size as the PC Power & Cooling 610w it replaced : /
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YEP, my first psu was an rosewill of 1000 watts( bronze 80 plus).it really overcharged one of my gtx 260 and my system was unstable. now i am getting a 1200 watt coolermaster (80 plus gold ). i want see if it can support my sytem.
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500 w antec
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teklord said:
Just ordered a 950W Corsair for my new high end system.
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