Feedback on Possible Purchase

[RickGG]

I am looking at the Rosewill RP550S-2MB 550W PSU on New Egg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817182028

Any feedback on the unit and Rosewill as a manufacturer very much appreciated.

Rick

 

[horstmann]

I would not buy a Rosewill PSU. Get a better brand or you will be replacing a bunch of your computer parts after it fries them.

 

[godman]

antec are good and OCZ also. (if they fit your budget)

 

[TSIMonster]

Another modular PSU that is close to this price is the Hiper 580w which is suspose to be great. It comes in many colors.

 

[Doughbuy]

Eh, I'd consider Rosewill a Tier 3 manufactuere, Hiper would be one step better, and then you have your Tier 1's... OCZ, Seasonic, Fortran, Enermax, TT, PC P&C, Corsair...

 

[leo2kp]

I have the Hyper 580watt PSU and I love it. Clean, very stable, lots of neat features, and the patented aviation-style modular connectors are badass! I wanted the red one but I could only get black :-/ Oh well still the same PSU and it works great. Got it on www.frozencpu.com for $99.

BTW they have cool keyboards too

 

[RickGG]

Sure, here is the system I am building:

AM2 3800+ or AM2 4600+ 64 X2
ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP
eVGA 256-P2-N615-TX GeForce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit

I am thinking of skipping the 4200+ (hence either going wiht 3800+ or 4600+) because of the 2200Mhz clock and odd DDR2 divisor (I want to run DDR2-800) "problem".

Thanks,

 

[godman]

i second that!

i think a 450w psu will do, good brand though! mplichfamily knows about a lot about psus so i'll let him carry on...

 

[utaka95]

From what I've seen Rosewill doesn't manufacture anything, they sell rebranded items. Some good, some not so good. Their cases are manufactured by Apex/Allied, the ramsticks were PQI, etc., etc. From what I've seen Enermax and Seasonic make a good portion of the brand name power supplies. Try Seasonic - super quiet and reliable.

 

[TSIMonster]

Eh, I'd consider Rosewill a Tier 3 manufactuere, Hiper would be one step better, and then you have your Tier 1's... OCZ, Seasonic, Fortran, Enermax, TT, PC P&C, Corsair...

I'll agree except take TT down to tier 2. I think Hyper could be tier one if their efficiency was better, but hey, most modulars are low efficiency

 

[RickGG]

Thanks to all for your feedback. That Hiper is pretty nice looking- love the plugs!

Any feedback on these?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817153042

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817148023

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16817148027

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16817103932

Rick

 

[godman]

the thermaltake and antec are probably the best, the antec being better than the thermaltake

have a look at this, is only $10 more (and better):
Antec neoHE


or these:
seasonic
OCZ
enermax 500w
coolermaster

the ones i have links to are all good PSUs

 

[Doughbuy]

The TT Toughpower series are some of the best PSU's out there... Quad 12V rails, stable as heck, and pretty damn efficent. The smaller ones probably would qualify as a Tier 2, but the Toughpower definitly runs with the best of them, and their modular solutions are also really nice.