Every web tool I have used to calculate my system's wattage puts me at about 400W but I feel very strongly that my Antec NeoPower 480W is not enough.
The issues I am having with my system are the following:
- Sometimes when I am gaming and my video card changes resolution a lot (both my old card and my new card), my system would reboot after about a dozen resolution changes (normally going from desktop to ingame to desktop to ingame repeatedly). After rebooting, I would be stuck at the 1st BIOS screen and would have to manually reset the system in order for it to boot up.
- My PCI controller card sometimes is not detected when my system boots up and the hard drives connected are not accessible.
- Twice recently one of the hard drives in my system have been 'dropped' by Windows as if the drives were unplugged. Once I reboot the system, they appear again, and Windows tries to scandisk them.
Here are my system specs:
Intel Pentium 4 550 3.4GHz LGA775
Intel D915PBLL Mainboard i915P Chipset
2 x OCZ 1024MB PC2-4300 DDR2
1.44MB Floppy Drive
2 x Maxtor 6B080M0 80GB 7200RPM SATA (on ICH6)
2 x Maxtor 6L250S0 250GB 7200RPM SATA (RAID0 on ICH6)
2 x Maxtor 6Y160M0 160GB 7200RPM SATA (RAID1 on controller card)
LG GSA-4160B 16x DVD+/-RW
ASUS EN6800GT nVidia 6800GT 256MB PCI-E
Promise FastTrak S150 TX2plus PCI SATA RAID Controller
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 250 PCI TV Tuner
Antec P180 Case
Antec NeoPower 480W
4 x 120mm Case Fan
1 x 80mm Case Fan
I am thinking of upgrading to an Antec TruePower II 550W but looking at the specs there is only 1 more amp on each 12V+ rail and 2 more amps on the 5V+ and 3.3V+ rails.
I would like to get something extremely high end. Any suggestions?
I have had great luck with my ULTRA 600 watt SLI certified PSU. It replaced my enermax 535w that kept failing after 2 weeks then the RMA'd unit died within 20 minutes. Before that I was running the Neopower but it didnt have the nuts to let me OC my benchmarks would lose focus. But you have 4 more hard drives than me
also would like to add that 600 watt PSU can be found from 69$ to 99$ thought it was a nice price , I paid 99 then it went on sale a week later at FRY's just my luck lol.
only with the enermax so far, notice the new Ultra's are not the crappy X-connect ones from the past, I agree they do have issues along with boasting false values. The new non-x-connect are great PSU's
Also they left out the 4pin proc power adapter on the replacement unit they sent me LOL , argh!! oh well the PSU didnt last long anyway. I will give them 1 more chance before I never buy on of thier PSU's again. I think that is fair.
Haven't seen any hardcore reviews on the X-Finity series PSUs...I also haven't heard a lot of horror stories about them either. The jury's still out for them in my eyes. Based on your experiences with Enermax i'd say that you've given them a fair enough shot for you personally...
There are 4 rails and those rails are not completely independent. The max amperage limit is really an aggregate of the amps on all rails minus a little..like 2 amps. That TT 680W is a rock-solid PSU.
You're right - another really good PSU. Of course with the prices that we're throwing around we shouldn't leave out the Seasonic S12-600 for $145 right now.
PSU with best review from TOMS is the Enermax noisetaker 600w. I have the 485W Noisetaker and it is quiet and voltages stay on spec better than any other psu i have owned.
If you read the most recent large-scale THG PSU test you will see that their two top recommendations are Seasonic S12 and the passively-cooled FSP 300W.
I agree that the Enermax Noisetakers are some of the best PSUs on the market...but the Seasonic S12 got the nod from THG.
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