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After a good 4+ years of solid service by Antec TruePower 420 has died valiantly defending my computer from the incompetent power company. I'm very sad and have begun a search for a replacement (may need to replace more, I don't know just how succesful the PSU actually was in its final moments). Unfortunately, my budget is very limited so I'm looking at the cheap end of the spectrum. I really only need something in the 350 range (assuming its true to spec). Anyone have opinions on quality low-end PSUs? I don't care if it only lasts a year or two just as long as it can put out its rated power and handle the occasional power drop, surge, spike, cut off, etc. Razor wrote:Killing people is good therapy.  
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thanks for the help everyone. I spent $40 on a 430w ThermalTake PSU. Supposedly it is pretty good, it's still got 5 eggs on NewEgg despite being reviewed almost 1500 times. This is the first non-Antec PSU I have owned since like 1996 or something. They are just too expensive these days for my budget right now :( Razor wrote:Killing people is good therapy.
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Heh my one lone adventure into non-antec cheapness cost me 3 hard disks and eventually a video card in what was later diagnosed as the quirky nature of power instability. Once I gave up dough and returned to the sweet honey coated whole-wheat antec goodness my string of bi-monthly hardware issues have stopped. In fact I was even able to regain some (not all) use of some of the hardware that had ceased to perform under the non-antec power management. So in other words.. Good Luck with that.. Once Known as Grumpy... Oh hell lets face it... I have and will always be Grumpy
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this is why I spent $40 for the well-reviewed thermaltake PSU over $20 for some brand I've never even heard of even though I was really wanting to not spend more than $25. I wish I could afford to spend the $100 or so on whatever Antec is selling these days, but despite getting a raise recently I've been broke non-stop. Stupid fucking bills have all gone up more than my raise was, ergo I actually have LESS money now than I did just a few months ago. It's craptastic and depressing. Past two years now it has felt like the more money I make the less money I actually have. If it's more than just my PSU that got fried in the surge or if the new PSU fries stuff I am going to be screwed. Razor wrote:Killing people is good therapy.
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All you small fries crack me up, go out and get some real power, anywhere above the 600W range and then you'll be cooking with gas. Hell, I went out of my way to future proof my rig and got myself the new X3 1600W Ultra for $340, that was an upgrade from a 550 X2 Ultra, WOW what a difference.
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I do not understand needing anything over 500w unless you have an insane amount of shit inside your box. What is in your rig that you need to buy a PSU like that? Razor wrote:Killing people is good therapy.
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Lone Wolf wrote:http://www.wdfnews.com/forums.aspx?g=posts&t=6018 nice system, but does it really need more than about 600w? maybe 650 at most. Razor wrote:Killing people is good therapy.
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I was originally going to use this setup for an Intel Core 2 Quad QX9770 and a pair of Nvidia 9800GTX Ultra vid cards so the extra power from the PSU would be needed in that build. But since I have 2 wait for all that shit to come out then I may as well use what I have right now.
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Lone Wolf wrote:I was originally going to use this setup for an Intel Core 2 Quad QX9770 and a pair of Nvidia 9800GTX Ultra vid cards so the extra power from the PSU would be needed in that build. But since I have 2 wait for all that shit to come out then I may as well use what I have right now. what do you do for a living? Razor wrote:Killing people is good therapy.
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Ug, Thermaltake makes horrible garbage power supplies. They don't supply enough amps on the 12V rail and I believe someone here before had problems running a 6800GS with it.
If you still can, return that shit and buy a 380W Antec Earthwatts since they're built by Seasonic.
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