Nevaziah

500+ power supplies for this rig:

E6450
Asus P5NE-SLI
2GB Geil PC6400 DDR800
500GB SATA II WD hdd
X1800XT 512MB
LG DVD-RW 18X
LG DVD-ROM


soon upgrading vid card to 8600 series ONLY IF they top the X1800XT.
someone had taught me how much the 12 rail should have, how much the 5 and 3 should have. If I remember correctly:

1.minimum 18A on the 12 V rail?
2.the best psus have only ONE 12V rail?
Im looking to buy one of these:

which rails power what? (cpu, gpu, mobo, drives..)

LOGYSIS 550Watt

Ultra V

Sunbeam Case Gears 580Watt

Ultra X-finity

Ultra X-connect

thermaltake 430W (maybe...)

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NamelessMC

Try to get a Sunbeam Nuuo 550.

Out of those, the X-Finity is the best.

With X-Connect you risk getting an early version which had horrible stability and caused some system failures. The Thermaltake 430 is kind of weak, it's just really popular. Ultra V is not as good as X series from their line up. Logysis isn't that good and that Sunbeam PSU isn't as good as their Nuuo series.

DuckieHo

Generally:
12v: CPU, GPU, mobo, HD, optical drive
5v: mobo, HD, optical drive
3.3v: memory.

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Nevaziah

So no one's heard of the Sunbeam Case Gears 580W??
I thought it would be somehwat popular as the "budget" psu for Sunbeam...

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DuckieHo

Since Sunbeam isn't popular in the first place... a budget PSU from a budget company isn't that recommended.

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WANTED: Socket M Core/Core 2 CPU, SUGO-02 Black, quality 802.11b/g PCI Card
To answer most of your questions: (1) a fridge cannot cool a PC (2) 64-bit OS for over 3.4GB (3) If a PCIe card fits, it will work (4) Resolution, not screen size (5) If you have a question, it is not news (6) Report, not respond to Spam (7) Single/Non-Modular Rail PSUs are NOT better than Multi-Rail/Modular

Nevaziah

what about Logysis? what is know of this one? I havent seen, heard or read reviews of them.

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davidhammock200

Looks like a list of PSU's to avoid!

andrus

Yeah . If you really can't spend a lot of money, I would get an XClio StablePower 460W or an Xclio GoodPower 500W. Each is $50 and the StablePower is better quality (Enhance manufactures the Stables I believe.) They are decent and miles better then any of those.

J3r3my

I would go for a better PSU if you can put a little more money towards it. Like maybe cutting back on HD space or something. Cause that rig will be worthless without a good PSU...trust me I know firsthand.

FSP or XClio are the only really good budget PSUs out there that could handle that rig.