For PSU's stick with SeaSonic, Antec, XFX, and OCZ (there are a few other good ones, those are on the top of my head though).
Never get a PSU just because it is cheap. You don't want a bad PSU sending bad power to expensive components possibly ruining large components such as your motherboard or GPU or even HDD (and thus lose your data)
Message edited by VetteDude on 02-02-2012 at 01:08:31 AM
I agree to a point that you need a better power supply. But sometimes the third party companies can be just as good depending on what you use it for. I've had cheap power supplies last and work with clean power for years on my other computers. The only time i ever had a problem with them is if you try to pull too much power than the cheaper ones dont have overload protection.
You also have to think that if they made a product that doesn't work they wouldn't be in business anymore because of getting sued and people not buying their products because i've seen diablotek around for years and for 30$ thats a good buy in my opinion at least its not a power supply with no stickers on it at all like some are that are cheap.
Granted they dont have 80+ certification but if your only pulling small amounts of power what good is certification? Even a 70% power efficiency is good enough for a small load.
Message edited by mightymaxio on 02-02-2012 at 01:18:04 AM
You can get a good Antec for $50 that has higher quality parts, protections against voltage changes and overloads, and 80-plus for efficiency. Between the brands I listed you have like over 100 PSU's to pick from. Why would you risk your entire system on a cheap supply? You can get cheap GPU. You can get cheap CPU. You can get a cheap mobo. But why on EARTH would you risk that whole investment to save a few bucks on the most important component?
Message edited by VetteDude on 02-02-2012 at 01:18:36 AM
thank you guys for the quick responses and any links you guys have would help
also do you think that sapphire radeon hd 5570 would work on my psu i got now 220watt?
It would be stretching it more that I'd be comfortable recommending. So no especially since the PSU is a prebuilt OEM one of questionable source. Is your PSU a standard ATX PSU (regular size desktop)
Is your computer upside-down in that pic? If it is, then it looks like you have a Micro ATX board and you could just plop your components into a new case with a new PSU and still be under your $150 budget.
However, a Celeron will limit your GPU choices because you will start being CPU bottlenecked. I would save for a new computer.
Is your computer upside-down in that pic? If it is, then it looks like you have a Micro ATX board and you could just plop your components into a new case with a new PSU and still be under your $150 budget.
However, a Celeron will limit your GPU choices because you will start being CPU bottlenecked. I would save for a new computer.
Best advice that could be given. Be patient, and try checking out newegg when the time comes. I've had good luck with newegg's open box items, they are very cheap, and I haven't had any issues with reliability yet. The biggest regrets I've had with computers was being impatient, I got a q9400 for my old 775 socket system right before the core i series processors first started coming out, I wasn't too happy later on.
yea i know im a bit impatient but im not planing on upgrading much just thoes 2 parts and if possible taking thoes 2 parts 2 my new computer im getting
soon
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Build your own system if you can. Its fun, you learn a lot about computers, and its pretty easy. If not, get a regular size desktop, makes upgrades so much easier. I got a slim with my Dell Studio, its now in a fullsize case (since I salved it since I love the Core 2 Quad in it, I'm typing on it now) and upgraded a bit, but I'll never buy another slim again. Just gonna build from now on.
i like my slim cuz i take to my friends house from time to time and play world of warcraft or league of legends ect...with them o.O and surprising enough not a laptop person xD