Help me choose PSU please Cooler Master GX 550 or Corsair CX 500

[taufixmns]

Hello, help me choose PSU please Cooler Master GX 550 or Corsair CX 500. both psu i can get for about the same price. i cant get any seasonic brand here..so which do you guys recommend?

 

[panwala95]

defintely the cx 500 from corsair .
never even think of buying a coolermaster psu .you will regret it

edit- where are you buying it from -nehru place?

 

[randomkid]

Hello, help me choose PSU please Cooler Master GX 550 or Corsair CX 500. both psu i can get for about the same price. i cant get any seasonic brand here..so which do you guys recommend?

I recommended Corsair CX500.

 

[taufixmns]

ok thanks, im working at pc hardware store so i can buy the gx 550 cheaper than standard, unfortunately we dont have cx500 that i can buy cheap lol. but does the cx 500 capable to to run the gtx 670?

also is this statistic true?
http://www.behardware.com/articles/862-3/components-returns-rates-6.html

return rate of the cx 500 is more than the gx 550

 

[_Brute_Force_]

it can, but you would be stretching it really thin, especially if ur running something older than Ivy Bridge thats consuming more power.

Check the calculator on their website to see if it can
http://www.corsair.com/en/learn_n_explore/?psu=yes

however I recommend the Corsair TX650 to run the GTX 670 flawlessly with headroom for anything else you might wanna add in the future (If you might wanna go SLI some time in the future, get the TX750)

Cheers

 

[taufixmns]

yeah, i know the tx650 is good but it is over my budget. guess ill just get the cx 500

 

[_Brute_Force_]

I strongly advise against saving on a PSU or limiting its budget. its the most important component in your computer. I will not talk about the future disability of adding more hardware or overclocking, but you should be aware with unreliable power you will get random slow downs and blue screens, with a chance of permanent hardware damage, even if you can replace hardware later, you might not be able to recover data if your hard failed.

I lost an entire machine with 2 hards (500 GBs of data ;'( ) because of an unreliable PSU. Try not to make the same mistake.

Good luck

 

[taufixmns]

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