PSU advice

[kbios]

Hi, since my corsair AX 1000W failed I'm looking for a new PSU. My requirements:
- NOT a corsair
- 950W or better
- 80 Plus Gold or better
- 100% modular

The closest I've found so far are the Enermax maxrevo, but I would like to hear other opinions.
Thanks for any suggestion.

[deanjo]

Hi, since my corsair AX 1000W failed I'm looking for a new PSU. My requirements:
- NOT a corsair
- 950W or better
- 80 Plus Gold or better
- 100% modular

The closest I've found so far are the Enermax maxrevo, but I would like to hear other opinions.
Thanks for any suggestion.

Well if didn't specify modular, I would recommend PC Power and Coolings Turbo Cool series.

[AlbertP]

I can recommend a Huntkey PSU. I'm having two of them and they are already working fine for years. Huntkey are having some 1000+ W models but I don't know if there are modular ones. At least they don't have very rigid cables which makes it easy to hide unnecessary ones and keep the cables away from fans.

But I'm having absolutely no experience with the Huntkey PSU's of today. My two ones are already quite old.

[crazycheese]

Well if didn't specify modular, I would recommend PC Power and Coolings Turbo Cool series.

Yes, its very good sample (soulpain' review here, if anyone needs, use google translate from german). On the other side, I remember he once bashed PC PnC for inferior quality in one model.

- M2N32SLI-Deluxe
- Phenom II X4 940 BE overclocked at 3.5 Ghz
- 2x NVIDIA Geforce 285GTX 2Gb

Dude, thats freaking afterburner! Upgrade to sandybridge with 560/580 (or purchase used 295), seriously. Then 600-800W supply will do.

[AnonymousCoward]

- 950W or better

More Watt != better. If you don't need them, they're just more expensive.

[deanjo]

More Watt != better.

Without knowing his current setup and future expansion plans you cannot actually make that call.

[kbios]

Well if didn't specify modular, I would recommend PC Power and Coolings Turbo Cool series.

Thanks, I've checked them, while they seem to have a not-so-great efficiency (83% for the Turbo-Cool 1200W, 88% for the Silencer Mk2 950W), they seem very very solid. I will consider the 950W.

I can recommend a Huntkey PSU. I'm having two of them and they are already working fine for years. Huntkey are having some 1000+ W models but I don't know if there are modular ones. At least they don't have very rigid cables which makes it easy to hide unnecessary ones and keep the cables away from fans.

But I'm having absolutely no experience with the Huntkey PSU's of today. My two ones are already quite old.

Thanks, but the only suitable module now is the X7 1200W with what seems a very loud fan (only 12 cm).

More Watt != better. If you don't need them, they're just more expensive.

Without knowing his current setup and future expansion plans you cannot actually make that call.

My current setup is:
- M2N32SLI-Deluxe
- Phenom II X4 940 BE overclocked at 3.5 Ghz
- 2x NVIDIA Geforce 285GTX 2Gb
- Various fans, DVD reader/writer, the usual things.

Before the corsair I had a ThermalTake ToughPower 850W which entered self-protection after a few minutes at full load, so that's why I need at least 950W. I probably would not go over 1100W, since idle consumption is about 200W and it should be about 20% for efficiency reasons. Anyone has the Silverstone StriderGold 1000W? It seems interesting.

[AlbertP]

The fan rotates slower (and makes less noise) when you aren't using the full power of the PSU, and as you said in your first post you don't need 1200W.

Edit. An interesting review of the PSU: http://www.rwlabs.com/article.php?cat=&id=377

[MaxDaniel]

Thanks for the post. It has very useful information about the computer.

[crazycheese]

The fan rotates slower (and makes less noise) when you aren't using the full power of the PSU, and as you said in your first post you don't need 1200W.

Edit. An interesting review of the PSU: http://www.rwlabs.com/article.php?cat=&id=377

Thats more or less "introduction", than a "review".
No detailed PSB analyse(protection circuits, conversions) , I couldn't see photo of PSB back, no deep analysis of conversion behavior (ripple, full load, overload, 5&3.3 conversion efficiency and deviations on different loads )
85c caps ouch!

Additionally

No matter what test we used we could not cross the 1118W line but 95% of the units total rated output is not something easily achieved.

Which means the unit is garbage. I know these supplies that advertize "700W" but in read world its PEAK OVERLOAD and not normal performance. Unless they die already at 600W. Like this one.