Been a while since I asked this

[DragonFury]

I am trying to get my grubby little paws (or claws depends on your out look :p) on a Core i7 970 CPU, some guy owes me 700 bones and I made an offer he could not refuse. but anywho, I am gonna need a bigger PSU to power the new improved Mini Me and I am looking at 1200 Watt PSU's. the three I got my eyeball on are Cooler masters 1200 Silent Pro Gold, A Corsair (hope their PSU's are better then their memory) and finally a SilverStone Strider 1200 Watt PSU. which one would you peeps recommend out of the three listed. I wont have gobs of money to drop down on a PSU so the EVGA one is out of the question.

[skier]

I would go for the Corsair, they are generally dependable units (my tx750 has lasted 3yrs, 5 systems, and one melted 8pin ATX connector while running a 3.9GHz Thuban (PLL voltage was too high, blew a cap and PWM flamed))

cooler masters lower end units (Extreme Power in particular) are garbage and I know nothing of silverstone aside from a card reader I have, so i can't really say either way with those units

[DragonFury]

thank you I messed with CM PSU's before and had good luck with them. Never played with Corsair but hear they are good, silverstone I had 1 bad one out of 3 I owned that are still going today. Looks like my choice got narrowed down quite well.

[Apoptosis]

Corsair is all I have used on the test bench here on LR for nearly 5 years now... Never had one fail and out of a dozen PSU's that get hammered one that is a good sign. I also personally have them in my gaming PC and HTPC and both are on 24/7 with 100% up time.

[DragonFury]

this machine never gets shut down either thank you again for the information looks like I be buying the Corsair on the first.