Been a while since I asked this
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Been a while since I asked this
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.
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Re: Been a while since I asked this
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
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
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Screamin' BCLK:
775 System (Overclocking Platform): Q8400/Q8300/E8400/E7400/E7500 - GA-EP45-UD3R v1.1 - 4GB (2x2) OCZ Reaper HPC DDR2 1066 CL5 2.1v Corsair TX-750w
Gamer: Asrock Z77 Extreme4, i7 3770K @4.6GHz, ThermalTake Armor A90 modded, 2x4GB GSKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 CL9, Corsair HX-750w, MSI GTX660 Twin Frozr
Server2012: Q9300 - 8GB DDR2 - Asus P5QL Pro - Corsair CX430 - Mirrored 2TB Seagate's with 2TB WD cav for fileshare backups, 1TB WD for OS backups
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Re: Been a while since I asked this
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.
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Re: Been a while since I asked this
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.
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Re: Been a while since I asked this
this machine never gets shut down either thank you again for the information looks like I be buying the Corsair on the first.
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