by the way will dirt kill psu?
cant open it to clean cus warranty will void....

Sorry if it was taken the wrong way, I was just adding on to what you said, not replying to any question in particular or criticizing. You really did one hell of a job reading that many psu reviews, I think I only read half of them at most. Thanks bro

Most of what I know is from proper psu reviews and the electronics portion of my physics course. I am not qualified to make any particular recommendations on PSUs, unless I have a proper review to refer to; hence I don't talk about those which I don't know about. I too find it particularly sad when someone just says a psu is good/bad due to their own (isolated) experience. Often its just luck really.

Dirt itself won't kill the psu under most circumstances, but it might kill the PSU fan. Then heat will kill the psu for sure. But usually the manufacturer would be smart enough to use a fan that would at least last as long as the warranty.

After warranty is over, heck, you can clean the fan or replace it altogether. Or more likely, you'll replace the whole PSU

i actually juz open up the casing without much care of the warranty if i've been using the same psu for a year or more as it has proven to be ok... replacing or cleaning of the internal n fan(s) is kinda important too... as it might help to prolong the psu life span....

MythBuster

-400W enough for C2D E6600 + 320M 8800GTS?
yes

-400W enough for OCed E6600 + 320M 8800GTS OCed?
yes again

-400W enough for OCed E6600 + SLi 320M 8800GTS OCed?
YES!!!

http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticl...537&articID=574
PSU used, FSP ZEN400 400Watt Passive Cooled!!!

Kind of knew that already, but I had no proof to show. Thanks bro. AMD procs and C2Ds take very little power even when heavily overclocked (less than 150W usually). I'm not so sure about the 8800 though, all I know is that it takes around 100-120W per card on full load, but in most cases it will never actually reach full load, especially if its in SLI. Not sure about overclocked power consumption for 8800. Rest of the system takes 50W at most.

However, the picture is very different with Pentium 4 and Pentium D. Those buggers suck juice big time. At least 150W for the processor alone for the 900 series, and the 800 series can even hit 250W at 4GHz.

pls recommand me a reliable PSU as per rigs below ( my sig )

Silverstone 560w Stride or Olympia 650W lo.. wht else

saw u sell ur icute PSU.
just go for Enermax FMA2 535watt la..
so far so good..

I think FMA 535W retail price is higher than Strider 560W (RM320).. MyPC lyp.

This post has been edited by yehlai: Jun 3 2007, 12:05 PM

ok ok........ What is the market price ?

As cheap as possible pls. broke.

and also which shop got sell ?

Olympia 650W - RM639
Over Budget la..
Price range - 300+

This post has been edited by Suk: Jun 3 2007, 02:00 PM

huh ?i bought Rm345 at pc zone.

updated....
price range - 300+

yup definitely thats the price when i was bought it last year. till now give good performance, never fails me

Hi serez,
Did u chech the 12V rails reading? Mine from speedfan is 11.84v.

Edit: Suk, u can check at MyPC distribution. Last time i quote from them RM320 only, 1 year warranty. Cheapest in lyp.

This post has been edited by yehlai: Jun 4 2007, 08:27 PM

same here, mine 1 also 11.84V
Rm320 ?
this PSU no have 5years warrany meh ?

AFAIK, Silverstone only offer 2 years warranty for Asia suctomers.
5 yrs is for EU/US region.

mine oso around 11.84v. have to use multimeter loh if wanna get accurate reading.. not really rely on these software

hoh 5years ka? hehe i thought 3years... hmm i think its 3years la bro

Don't trust 100% the reading you get from programs that read the motherboard sensor. I've tested at least 5 boards with a digital multimeter, and 80-90% of the time the figure does not match or even come close. In fact, half the time the PSU was giving very nice readings on the DMM (11.95-12.05v) while the motherboard was giving me something like 11.86v, or even something outright moronic like 6.99v. And this also applies to the other rails (5v, 3.3v, ect).

Motherboard sensors can help give you a head's up that something is horribly wrong with the PSU (like if the voltage keeps fluctuating rapidly), but using it to judge a PSU's quality is not being accurate at all.

yup agree monitoring softwares like speedfan etc doesn`t give accurate readings. maybe its just for reference only. summore wanna accurate then use digital multimeter lor

btw how to determine wether the psu itself stable or not? i mean how to compare the performance with others? for example enermax fma2 535w and igreen 500w
how to determine which one is the best? through readings from forums and review? is it enough?

This post has been edited by serez: Jun 5 2007, 08:35 PM

err.. n00b here, what is the safe voltage range for all the rails (esp 12V+rails)..?

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