Power Supply Unit (PSU)......

• hloc

  30 Oct 06, 10:24

  Hi.... to those who read my post before, will know i'm planning to bulid a PC end of this year..... Already solve which Graphic card to get and the SATA II HDD problem is settle too.
  
  Plan PC Config
  
  Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz
  MSI 965P M/B
  1GB of 1066Mhz FSB Ram
  80GB + 320GB SATA II HDD
  Leadtek Nvidia Geforce 7900GS graphic card
  Creative X-Fi soundcard
  DvD burner x1
  DvD rom x1
  
  Thought of getting a CoolerMaster casing and PSU. The casing will be the 'Elite' casing because it is only bout 6kg..... But PSU i still can't decide
  
  CoolerMaster have 3 type of PSU.... RealPower, iGreen Power & Extreme.
  
  I'm aiming for a 450W PSU only. Not going to use SLI or Crossfire. Price, of course, as low as possible.
  
  Question -
  Anyone out there knows which mobel should i get
  And why
  Any other brand of casing or PSU i should look out for......
  
  Thxs for the help.
• PointBlue

  30 Oct 06, 10:27

  You just have to look out for models which are TruePower. CoolerMaster is a good brand so I would stick to it.
  
  Otherwise all other kinds of more expensive PSUs with the same true wattage is mostly for modders and overclockers. You just need a reliable one, that's all.
• hloc

  30 Oct 06, 10:42

  Originally posted by PointBlue:

  You just have to look out for models which are TruePower. CoolerMaster is a good brand so I would stick to it.
  
  Otherwise all other kinds of more expensive PSUs with the same true wattage is mostly for modders and overclockers. You just need a reliable one, that's all.

  Ok..... so which one is good, cheap & reliable
• PointBlue

  30 Oct 06, 10:44

  Originally posted by hloc:
  
  
  Ok..... so which one is [b]good, cheap & reliable [/b]

  Any TruePower CoolerMaster one with the power you specified, 450W
• ndmmxiaomayi

  30 Oct 06, 10:48

  Antec is good... and it works very well with CoolerMaster.
• hloc

  30 Oct 06, 10:50

  Ok.... thxs for all the info
• life-rockz

  30 Oct 06, 20:02

  wait! what about os?
  
  wait for vista or stick to xp?
• ceecookie

  30 Oct 06, 20:05

  u dont want to go for the higher end Core 2 Extreme?
  
  if u want vista maybe u can install the RC1 for now till next yr when it comes out...
• pipipopo

  30 Oct 06, 20:54

  Originally posted by hloc:
  Hi.... to those who read my post before, will know i'm planning to bulid a PC end of this year..... Already solve which [b]Graphic card to get and the SATA II HDD problem is settle too.
  
  Plan PC Config
  
  Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz
  MSI 965P M/B
  1GB of 1066Mhz FSB Ram
  80GB + 320GB SATA II HDD
  Leadtek Nvidia Geforce 7900GS graphic card
  Creative X-Fi soundcard
  DvD burner x1
  DvD rom x1
  
  Thought of getting a CoolerMaster casing and PSU. The casing will be the 'Elite' casing because it is only bout 6kg..... But PSU i still can't decide
  
  CoolerMaster have 3 type of PSU.... RealPower, iGreen Power & Extreme.
  
  I'm aiming for a 450W PSU only. Not going to use SLI or Crossfire. Price, of course, as low as possible.
  
  Question -
  Anyone out there knows which mobel should i get
  And why
  Any other brand of casing or PSU i should look out for......
  
  Thxs for the help.[/b]

  once again your queries have the answers all over your hardware's website and the internet.
  
  please read reviews on your chosen motherboard to see what ype of psu was used for the various tests and reports. of course most recent psu sure support your 965 board but there may be exceptions. Also check the same for your 7900GS graphics card to see if there is extra power requirments on the psu. Do not forget that you are using 1gig of faster ram (1066Mhz), one extra larger ccapacity hard disk and one extra optical drive. You may want to predict and estimate the peak power consumption when you are reading from one optical drive and copying the data to the DVD-writer at the same time. You may have an old sound card but it shall also be drawing power from the PCI bus.
  
  As for the colloermaster switching psu, here are a couple of differences i managed to pick out from the 3 classes,
  
  extreme-70% efficiency and more, complies to intel ATX std 12v v2.01
  realpower-75% efficiency and more , complies to intel ATX std 12v v2.0/2.01
  iGreen power- rohs compliant, 85% efficiency and more, complies to intel ATX std 12v v2.2
  
  http://www.coolermaster.com/index.php?LT=english&Language_s=2&url_place=product_class_include&files=power_supplies.html
  
  a history about intel ATX form factor 12V Version here,
  http://www.formfactors.org/developer%5Cspecs%5Catx2_2.pdf
  
  power efficiency means the true amount of energy or work produced from the electrical power source after taking considerations onlosses due to external environmental or ambient factors, heat losses etc. a 70% gauranteed efficiency means of the 100$ electricity drawn, 70 percent dows the actual work while 30 percent wasted in the form of heat, magnetic waves, signals etc.
  
  rohs is part of the eu directives on restriction of hazardous material used in the production of electro/ electrical parts and equipment. 6 restricted substances include mercury, cadmium, lead, hexavalent chromium, PBDE and PBB.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoHS
• ndmmxiaomayi

  30 Oct 06, 20:59

  Originally posted by life-rockz:

  wait! what about os?
  
  wait for vista or stick to xp?

  I would prefer to stick to XP.
  
  Vista is too expensive to buy. The release candidates have bugs that are yet to fix.
• hloc

  31 Oct 06, 11:33

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  I would prefer to stick to XP.
  
  Vista is too expensive to buy. The release candidates have bugs that are yet to fix.

  Me staying with WinXP. Vista got too many DRM problem..... and to me, the Areo interface is only eye-candy. Getting core 2 Duo not to run Vista but more for video editing........ and why not buy the top end CPU ??? Money lah Casing + PSU also need to buy cheap one, where got $$$$ to buy high end CPU.....