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| Thread ID: 109639 | 2010-05-16 21:31:00 | Good PSU - too good for "consumers" ? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 885479 | 2010-05-16 21:31:00 | I know that system builders like yourselves would like a good quality PSU . Ditto to kids who like to play games . For the many consumers out there who merely just have a onboard video controller is it needed? Tasks such as surf the web and MS Office / Publisher . Like your thoughts . :) |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 885480 | 2010-05-16 21:39:00 | Crappy PSU's crap out no matter what level you want to rank the user at, It has no relevance. A quality PC has a quality PSU or its not a quality PC. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 885481 | 2010-05-16 23:16:00 | For the many consumers out there who merely just have a onboard video controller is it needed? What has usage of the PC got to do with using low quality PSUs? It's power . It steps the 230v down to 12v etc, whatever component it is powering . If it's dodgy do you really want it to take out all your lovely hardware with it? Like the hard drive for instance? I use quality parts only regardless of the use of the PC . It's like saying you'd buy some known crap car just because you only use it for day to day running around . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 885482 | 2010-05-16 23:21:00 | Yeah but .. most people out there buy supermarket computers and offices use a lot of Dell. Surely, the fault rate is not astronomical. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 885483 | 2010-05-16 23:48:00 | Just get something that isn't $50 and you should be fine. | Netsukeninja (13296) | ||
| 885484 | 2010-05-17 00:23:00 | The former motherboard went haywire . So I am taking advantage of MS's IT Academy in this course I am doing - free Windows . I might kit it up again . I have the box . Nothing special . It's a iCute and a matching PSU, what sorta wattage should I look for? I may go for a better quality one . Don't ask me why he got the cheaper one, I guess many non IT people just want it cheap . Nothing special, probably a Sempron CPU, onboard video, 1x DVDRW if at all, no floppy, 1x SATA . 1x wifi card (G series) . That's it . I take it Enermax, Antec, Silverstone, Thermaltake, Corrsair are all good? 350W ok? Cheers . |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 885485 | 2010-05-17 01:51:00 | Hmmmmm. Perhaps the former motherboard went haywire due to a crappy PSU. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 885486 | 2010-05-17 02:08:00 | I installed the CPU in the wrong way . Don't ask me how . I installed it without much force and the heat sink fan even went on ok . I re-thermal pasted it . Given how well it worked on my own system . I broke it so the new sys will be my shout :thumbs: :dogeye: |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 885487 | 2010-05-17 02:26:00 | I take it Enermax, Antec, Silverstone, Thermaltake, Corrsair are all good? 350W ok? Cheers. All OK (from memory: Antec? OR Thermaltake? have had a few dud cheapy models ,rebranded a 350w as a 450W) Antec, Thermaltake, Corsair are all just rebranded from other manufacturers(& possibly Silverstone,??). REAL performance varies on model to model with most brands, doesnt matter for 90% of us. Enermax may have had reliablity issues recently???, one of the local shops no longer stocks them because of increasing failure rates, they should know as they would have sold alot of them. They were Very reliable 2+ years back. 350W is OK: on a descent brand PSU with just onboard graphics |
sroby (11519) | ||
| 885488 | 2010-05-17 02:28:00 | I installed the CPU in the wrong way . Don't ask me how . Thats how the Flux Capacitor was discovered (in the future) . Perhaps to be discovered by you ?? :punk |
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